What are the dangers of tuning your own vehicle?
What are the dangers of tuning your own vehicle? 
08-06-2012, 02:15 PM
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The main thing I see is people who want to chase the HP
number before they learn to understand the vehicle and
what it's trying to tell them.
If you spend more time "tuning" than you do on scanning
and interpreting the logs, you're probably upside-down.
Stay conservative and quit changing things when it stops
helping. There -is- such a thing as too lean and too much
advance, too much RPM for the valvetrain and so on.
Learning from mistakes gets to be expensive unless you
make the effort to learn from other peoples', first.
"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology -
the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't
any good". - Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
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number before they learn to understand the vehicle and
what it's trying to tell them.
If you spend more time "tuning" than you do on scanning
and interpreting the logs, you're probably upside-down.
Stay conservative and quit changing things when it stops
helping. There -is- such a thing as too lean and too much
advance, too much RPM for the valvetrain and so on.
Learning from mistakes gets to be expensive unless you
make the effort to learn from other peoples', first.
"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology -
the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't
any good". - Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance
08-06-2012, 02:23 PM
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Pretty-much, just the obvious....scattered parts and lots of $$$ down the toilet. The "plus" side outweighs the bad, IMHO. It took a little bit for me to come around to the realization that nobody else gives a damn about my cars as much as I do. I will never again pay for someone to tune a car for me. Yes, it takes time and $$$ to learn how to tune (if you want to do it correctly), but the payoff is worth it.....at least to me.
08-06-2012, 02:23 PM
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i want to add to jimmyblue's comment^
if you change something and dont get the results you want, change it back, its still doing something that you dont know. I have seen it countless time.
if you change something and dont get the results you want, change it back, its still doing something that you dont know. I have seen it countless time.
