Florida Members - Tampa Tuning for Dyno Tuning and street tuning

Well now im a sponsor under Tampa Tuning instead of Phil's C5 Vette.

www.TampaTuning.com
for details.

To convert a street tune price to a dyno tune price:
$380 Bolt ons and under to dyno tune
$450 Cammed cars to dyno tune
$550 Forced induction to dyno tune. ( additional if operating system needs to be changed)

Im sorry for the delay in conversion. I do my most of my dyno tuning in
St. Peterburg off 118th ave

Thank you for all the congrats PMs. For those of you that have inquired about me fixing your current tune from another tuner and repairing your low end driving ability, and poor transmission shift issues, I’m here to fix those tuning problems. Ive heard and read about the horror stories about tuners rushing through tunes, mostly cutting and pasting tunes into your configuration with a couple WOT pulls and say your car is tuned. Well that doesn’t happen with Tampa Tuning. We actually calibrate your car. Crazy concept lol

WOT is easy to tune, but if your low end is a mess, Id be concerned about your high RPM tune.

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weekend bump
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Great tuning at a great price.

Phil

I've already spoken with you, I have some issue's I needed squared away, however, through the next few months, I'm going to be compiling some ported 243 heads, a cam, and a stall. I figure I will wait to meet you then. I'd love to test your tuning out against the other tuner I used, but I'll just wait. Have any idea what cam/head install would be? I have a local trans shop, that would do the stall for $250, but if powertech can come fairly close to that, I will use them for that as well. Phil, I would also love to talk to you about cam choices as well.

Yhpm :)

Phil, ............ do you guys do tranny tuning? I'm switching from a 4L60E to a 4L80E in a 2002 camaro and will need it tuned so it shifts right. It will be a few weeks before this is done but I need to know where to take it for the tranny tune when it's finished.

Phil, ............ do you guys do tranny tuning? I'm switching from a 4L60E to a 4L80E in a 2002 camaro and will need it tuned so it shifts right. It will be a few weeks before this is done but I need to know where to take it for the tranny tune when it's finished.

Yep, I can do that. Sorry it's taken me a week to get back to the thread, but Ive been swamped with work and havent had a chance to even check it.

Phil

Thank you again Phil and Ian. They were able to fix my throttle cable, identify a low rpm spark issue, and do a tune even with my exhaust causing problems. They definately went the extra mile for me! Feels much smoother, more powerful and I can now enjoy the full benefits of bolt-ons. I'll let ya' know when the y pipe rattle gets fixed and 4.11's get installed.


Thanks, Tripp

Thank you again Phil and Ian. They were able to fix my throttle cable, identify a low rpm spark issue, and do a tune even with my exhaust causing problems. They definately went the extra mile for me! Feels much smoother, more powerful and I can now enjoy the full benefits of bolt-ons. I'll let ya' know when the y pipe rattle gets fixed and 4.11's get installed.


Thanks, Tripp

Tampa Tuning works harder so you dont have to and enjoy improving your performance.

Tripp, we're happy to have your business, and glad to upgrade your tune as your performance level grows.

Going the extra yard is the differance between Tampa Tuning and other local tuners.

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Well now im a sponsor under Tampa Tuning instead of Phil's C5 Vette.

www.TampaTuning.com
for details.

To convert a street tune price to a dyno tune price:
$380 Bolt ons and under to dyno tune
$450 Cammed cars to dyno tune
$550 Forced induction to dyno tune. ( additional if operating system needs to be changed)

I’m getting A LOT of inquiries about fixing other tuners tunes. Most of the time when i do this, I see fuel dumped on timing to drown problems, then I see fuel trims so out of whack, the vehicle is getting garbage for MPG. Rarely do I see injectors scaled correctly and that amazes me because at the injectors is where the tune should start.

These are all major factors into how your vehicles will performance. Sometimes I can fix a tuning issue, and other times because the strategies are just so far off, I just have to scrap the old tune and calibrate a new system rather than try to patch someone’s copy and paste jobs.
So when the question comes up why does it take 2-4 hours to tune the vehicles, well its because I like to do it right the first time.

www.TampaTuning.com
Phil

LOL I can vouch for Phil on that one!!!

What was that AFR 10.5 if I recall? Tune was SOOOOooo bad!

I can also say he worked REAL hard redoing mine.

We've got to hook up.

LOL I can vouch for Phil on that one!!!

What was that AFR 10.5 if I recall? Tune was SOOOOooo bad!

I can also say he worked REAL hard redoing mine.

We've got to hook up.

Man your tune was so hacked up, I thought my scanner was wrong. I think you peeked at 10.5 on an NA motor lol. I dont know how local tuners can street cars like that and take money for it.

Im glad to have made the car run better and thanks for the kudos. After you get done with the tour, lets get that sucker on the dyno.
www.TampaTuning.com
Phil

Yeah for sure! BUT damn, I've got that TVS itch REAL BAD!!

Thinking about selling that Ford mustang, + with a couple K I'd have the kit.

I should still tune it, though these are plans you, never know...

Going to the Ocala GM show?

I remember looking at Ryan's car one time in a parking lot real quick on one of my trips trying to help him out. Had to be maybe a year or more ago possibly. It was a mess and I was going to pretty much go back to stock and start from scratch to do it right. I made a couple small changes to help, but.....

Good to hear got she is behaving now after all this time.

Mike Norris

I remember looking at Ryan's car one time in a parking lot real quick on one of my trips trying to help him out. Had to be maybe a year or more ago possibly. It was a mess and I was going to pretty much go back to stock and start from scratch to do it right. I made a couple small changes to help, but.....

Good to hear got she is behaving now after all this time.

Mike Norris

Mike how have you been!

We had to over come the "drilled a hole in the throttle blade trick" and work a tune around that lol

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Do you guys do engine mods such as heads/cam swaps? or just tuning?

Mike how have you been!

We had to over come the "drilled a hole in the throttle blade trick" and work a tune around that lol

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Staying busy for sure and will actually be in FL next week from Tuesday till Friday. I think I have about 14 or 15 cars to do while I am there.

I can work around the hole in the TB blade for the most part, but it is the MAF and VE tables that tend to get so screwed up or never messed with at all that drive me crazy.

Talk to you soon.

Mike Norris

Mike,
Did you make it to town this week?
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Phil

Phil,
Thanks a million for helping me out on such short notice!

I shipped my H/C/I C5 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Tampa last week, and because of the elevation change the car didn't want to idle. Not knowing any tuners in the area I did a search for tuners that were recommended around here and that brought me to Phil.

Phil not only sorted out my idle issues, he cleaned up my existing tune and the car runs better than ever AND, he was great to deal with. I've dealt with a lot of tuners in my day, and Phil ranks among the best.

Highly recommended.

Brandon

Phil,

Thank you so much for transforming my '08 Z51 Vette this past Saturday into the high performance car it currently is.
I'm very pleased with the results of the tune; it definitely was money well spent. The car now is crazy fast and I'm still surprised at how well it shifts; I love how it sounds with the headers, x pipe, 3in. exhaust, CAI:cheers: and the tune.
You are a true knowledgeable professional, you took the time to do it right the first time; you kept my wife and I informed of the results or each change you made thruout the tuning process.
I'm definitely recommending you to all my friends in the Tampa Bay Vettes club.
I'm a happy customer.
Pablo.

Thanks guys !
I have as much fun working on them as you guys do watching.
Those first test drive smiles are priceless :drive:
We do great tuning for a great prices:cheers:
www.TampaTuning.com
Phil

Phil, I just switched from a ported LS2 intake to a FAST 102, with no other changes. Previous street tune from another close tuner. Car seems like it picked up power, do you think a re-tune is pretty important? Or can it wait a couple months, until I come to you for a cam/stall tune?

Phil, I just switched from a ported LS2 intake to a FAST 102, with no other changes. Previous street tune from another close tuner. Car seems like it picked up power, do you think a re-tune is pretty important? Or can it wait a couple months, until I come to you for a cam/stall tune?

Im not going to lie to you. save the money and wait. Someone else might tell you you have to come in, but you should be ok if he left it a little on the rich side. If the car was surging or something out of calibration and you couldnt drive it and wait, Id say ok, but if you dont have issues, you should be fine until the heads and cam.
www.TampaTuning.com
Phil

Sunday night bump between football games

Well now im a sponsor under Tampa Tuning instead of Phil's C5 Vette.

www.TampaTuning.com
for details.

To convert a street tune price to a dyno tune price:
$380 Bolt ons and under to dyno tune
$450 Cammed cars to dyno tune
$550 Forced induction to dyno tune. ( additional if operating system needs to be changed)

Im sorry for the delay in conversion. I do my most of my dyno tuning in
St. Peterburg off 118th ave and Brandon off Falkenburg road

been making alot of race cars lately

Phil,
I need a home use scanner for my 2005 5.3 that I've installed into my '66 Chevy II Wagon, and I was looking at this PC based system here: http://www.scantool.net/obdlink-sx.html

Will it do the job?

Another thanks to Phil and Co. We retuned my 408 back to full speed! A challenge was the idle. My setup has not liked my 102/102 at idle but finally its much better, Phil spent the time to tune the cam surge out and idle! I really disliked the drivability and because of that I didn't drive the car much.

I also have a 99 TA auto bolt ons with LTs and dumps. I got a new trans rebuild and decided on Phil, he took the time for all the little details and trans shift points. Though I didn't feel the need to put it on the dyno, car really runs great! My Dad drives the car and just smiles everytime he talks about the car. With that dedication is when I had decided Phil was going to tune my 408LS3.

My 01 WS6 vert is next! Though, its the cruiser and soon to have more bolt ons with some LTs, once done, Phil will tune it too....

Phil,
I need a home use scanner for my 2005 5.3 that I've installed into my '66 Chevy II Wagon, and I was looking at this PC based system here: http://www.scantool.net/obdlink-sx.html

Will it do the job?

Looks like it will scan settings but it doesnt tell you how many, but you wont be able to change the calibration.
For $50.00 Dont expect much, and it of works, Its a homerun.

You can pick up a used HP Tuner set up with not credits for $250. You'll have a great scanner, and if you wanted to change calibrations, it would cost $100 more. The scanner always scan.
www.TampaTuning.com
Phil

That car is a screamer with the cut outs open. You went from 455 RWHP before we tuned it, to 515 RWHP on the final run and talk about pulling like a train!

Have fun on the power tour with the extra power!
www.TampaTuning.com
Phil


Another thanks to Phil and Co. We retuned my 408 back to full speed! A challenge was the idle. My setup has not liked my 102/102 at idle but finally its much better, Phil spent the time to tune the cam surge out and idle! I really disliked the drivability and because of that I didn't drive the car much.

I also have a 99 TA auto bolt ons with LTs and dumps. I got a new trans rebuild and decided on Phil, he took the time for all the little details and trans shift points. Though I didn't feel the need to put it on the dyno, car really runs great! My Dad drives the car and just smiles everytime he talks about the car. With that dedication is when I had decided Phil was going to tune my 408LS3.

My 01 WS6 vert is next! Though, its the cruiser and soon to have more bolt ons with some LTs, once done, Phil will tune it too....

I had a very positive experience with Phil tuning my car as well as some friends. The drivability is great. I wouldn't hesitate to bring it back. The attention to detail seperates the men from the boys.

Phil,

I am wondering if I should just go SD tune since I plan on running over 10#’s and since going that high am wondering what MAP bar to get like a (2.5 or 3) as well as anything else I am missing to help tune it.

You can always reach me at Tuning@TampaTuning.com

The 2.5 MAP should be enough being its 2X atmospheric pressure. The motor might not be able to hold the power, but the MAP will lol. The LS9 MAP has been working well on the newer vehicles. It just has to be scaled properly. With HP Tuners, for $100, you can do SD with an additional operating system, but alot depends on the PCM of the vehicle.

It was good to finally meet Shaun Saturday at all American. I spend almost 8 hours trying to fix another "Shop/Tuner's" build and correcting the calibration mess, and finially told shaun the car has to many issues that I cant over come through the calibration. No shawns shop didnt build it. It took two hours just to get the car to idle and drive without dying.

When I got done, the car ran better, started better, was able to run with the AC on, break the tires in 3rd gear, but if the build is not corrected, the tune cant over come it. Yes an improvement was nice and we made it as good as we could, but I like cars perfect.

That's just the way it is sometimes. With a good known shop where guys always do builds all the time, the calibration goes pretty smooth.


Here's a little side note to you guys buying aftermarket "drilled out" injectors to save a buck, and they are now "xx pound injectors" the problem your calibrator will have is to defining the true value of the new actualy rate data. When the drilled out injectors are made to flow at a higher rate, that information is fair easy to scale if the proper information is provided, but the low end calibration is the information really needed for your calibrator to use for the short pulse rate, the very important offset Vs Battery voltage rate Vs the vacuum of the car which is a huge scaling table, the minimal and default injector pulse and for you guys that smell excess fuel, the injector boundarys. They wont have that true information because they are drilled out and have to guess at the data by saying well XXX brand at XX pounds flow like this so my new drilled xx pound injectors should flow the same. You cant be more wrong!

I really recommend spending the extra couple bucks to purchase real injectors with proper known advertised data where the values are available for your calibrator to use to scale them correctly. Two of the main units to make the car run smooth are the MAF and the injectors.
I can get around the MAF through SD, but Im a MAF fan and think it should be used untill it is totally pegged. Then you should be pay the extra couple bucks for enhanced operating system.
Phil
Tuning@TampaTuning.com
813-727-8720

Great information to know and learn from, Thank You for sharing it with us.
Glenn

Do any tuning with efi live, or just hp tuners?

Ill be up at the tuning school this week helping if anyone is going. I love getting invited and learning new stratigies.

I like HP Tuners. My partner uses EFI just on his C6. both very good units. I like the HP Tuners PIDs and scanner, and EFI has several differant torque management tables in the transmission which on very high HP vehicles he likes better.

Tuning@TampaTuning.com

Phil

Reason I ask is that I run EFI live on the duramax and by proxy the V to keep everything somewhat collected. I'll have to get a hold of you if you're in the Orlando area sometime.

Ill be at PRI in Orlando on friday, but wont have a chance to tune.

I'll be waiting for the next time you're around, the rear end of my car is in pieces at the moment should be back together soon though.

Camaro Corvette C7 GTO performance Firebird Truck tuner in Tampa Orlando

No problem.

You can alway reach me at

Tuning@TampaTuning.com
813-727-8720

or visit our website at www.TampaTuning.com

It was great meeting everyone at PRI last week!

Networking leads to huge projects!
www.TampaTuning.com


Camaro Corvette C7 GTO performance Firebird Truck tuner in Tampa Orlando


You can alway reach me at

Tuning@TampaTuning.com
813-727-8720

or visit our website at www.TampaTuning.com

Camaro Corvette C7 GTO Firebird Truck performance tuner in Tampa Orlando

You can alway reach me at

Tuning@TampaTuning.com
813-727-8720

or visit our website at www.TampaTuning.com

Saturday morning bump while I had a chance to log on.
Camaro Corvette CTSv GTO Firebird Truck Peformance Tuner in Tampa Orlando

Phil

Hi Phil, do you tune LT1s? (1997) My wife is driving our 97 while I'm deployed and it needs a tune. Thanks.

Scott

Sorry Scott,
My HP Tuners interface doesnt interact with the older LT series powertrain.

This should be more confusing in 2014 when the new corvette comes out with an LT series engine that I can calibrate when HP Tuenrs re-writes the mapping. lol
Sorry
Phil

Email: Tuning@TampaTuning.com

www.TampaTuning.com

813-727-8720

Phil tuned my car a while back and did an excellent job.

He spent quite a few hours doing everything right, trying different settings and adjusting everything to my liking.

Don't hesitate going to Phil if you need a tune. He WILL take care of you.

Thank you very much. I dont have to crush guys on prices. Im the lowest priced calibrator in the area and that's purposeful marketing. You dont get anything more from the guys that charge $200.00 more than you get from me. Just a lighter wallet. Ive been tuning for almost 10 years, which was all word of mouth.

Everyday Tampa Tuning pricing:

Custom Street Tune for Bolt-On and under vehicles. $290.00

Custom Dyno Tune for Bolt-On only $390.00

Custom Dyno Tune for internally modified with Cam and or Heads $450

Custom Dyno Tune for Forced Induction starting at $550.00 depending on if an upgraded operating system is need.

You can contact me by Email at:

Tuning@TampaTuning.com

or call me at 813-727-8720

Or through our website at:

www.TampaTuning.com

Here's a couple snap shots of the dyno bay as we strap down the cars and get them ready for dyno tuning. Ive eaten off the floor.

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This question came up in a PM, so I thought Id address it in a thread.

For some reason, people think the 6l80 transmission came out with the Gen5Camaro. That is not correct.

I've been calibrating these since they were stuffed into the Corvettes in
2006. On board we have Ian Thompson who co-wrote the instruction guide for transmission and the advanced calibration guide for the world class " tuning school" which instructs you to how to use HP Tuner platform.

Again, Ill be up at the tuning school assisting with instructing for the March and May advanced certification courses.

Ask your calibrator if he is a certified calibrator and how he got his certification, or if he learned by trial and error, or "just has a lot of experience with these things".

Phil

www.TampaTuning.com

www.TampaTuning.com

Phil

Hey Phil, is this the same dyno you mention in the St. Judes thread? Reason I ask is that I was under the impression that the dyno you used was load-bearing, but I didn't see any mention of that in the dyno description.

I use both mustang and dynojet dynos.
The mustang has the eddy brake, the DynoJet has 48" rollers. I also have access to a dynocom converted. Each have there advantage. Not easy to move and still allow me to get deep into the VE table and MAF.

Click the pictures.

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We had some spare time on our hands and My kids had the day off from school, so we decided to clean up the dyno bay. Even though I have six cars lined up for net week, the dyno came ouy great.

Before:
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After:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff231/aprea1/Allclean_zps734e9aa0.jpg

My son is 5'5". check out thesize of this dyno bay which used to be the paint both.

Its even got a HUGE projection TV so even one can see the results

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff231/aprea1/Dynobaysize_zpsdb709e39.jpg

Job well done!

Thank you. Though I calibrated 4 cars in it last week, and have three scheduled this week, I can see Friday night when I get done with the last car, Im going to have to give it the once over again.

Before

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During ( click the picture )


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After


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Phil
www.TampaTuning.com

Sent you a pm!

I guess you guys don't do LT 4 engine.
Do you know who does around here?

We calibrate the most LSx Corvettes and Camaros in the Tampa Orlando area.

We don't calibrate the LT series motors.

Sorry
Phil
www.TampaTuning.com

Tuning@TampaTuning.com

Here's a couple car we calibrated last week

Click the picture for the videos. The G8 and CTSv are stills

Bolt ons C5:
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Procharged C5 no bolt ons. All stock except the procharger: 425 RWHP
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Ian's radical heads and cam

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Just for fun, My Dad's 4 cylinder caliber on dyno day. 121 RWHP

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www.TampaTuning.com
Phil

I'll be giving you a call sometime next week. Getting my F1A installed in the next week. Going with a SD tune, hope you have some spots avail. in 2 weeks or so.

Cool. Just let me know