Is A Performance Tuner Worth Getting?
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Is A Performance Tuner Worth Getting? My car will stay stock for the next 9 months, until I get out of the Marines. Im stationed in California and the rules out here suck so im gonna wait to do my mods when I get back to Texas..but was wondering if this would be worth getting to hold me over? Heres a link to a few of them, thanks in advance!
http://www.corvetteguys.com/0104-cor...ps-tuners.html
http://www.corvetteguys.com/0104-cor...ps-tuners.html
Yes. Without a doubt. It's a great tool. I have had one in my car for years. It can grow with your future mods as well, meaning you can still keep the tuner. Lets say if you go with a procharger or something down the road, you can still have it tuned with a CMR dealer or I am sure diablosport has a few different calibrations on file. That would replace the "tuner" file that comes standard n the program. It also no matter what, stores your factory calibration should you ever return the car to stock. Making the programmer able to be used on another car(again once flashed to stock).
Not only does it reflash the car, it scans and clears codes, records real time data,changes wheel sizes, and will work on cars as far back as 1996 in my experience. Really cool tool. Saved my *** numerous times in the middle of the night, in the middle of now where once, or ten times. Very easy to use. You can plug it into a labtop and have a multiple gage layout. Not only have I used the predator on my car, I have used it on multiple others..... I have had no failures with these tools(diablosport predator). Not one. I even had one submerged in water once..... soaking wet. That thing still works like new till this day.
Customer service, top notch. If you do further mod your car,...call them up, tell them what you've modded, they'll help you out like no other company in this industry.
Peace out.
Not only does it reflash the car, it scans and clears codes, records real time data,changes wheel sizes, and will work on cars as far back as 1996 in my experience. Really cool tool. Saved my *** numerous times in the middle of the night, in the middle of now where once, or ten times. Very easy to use. You can plug it into a labtop and have a multiple gage layout. Not only have I used the predator on my car, I have used it on multiple others..... I have had no failures with these tools(diablosport predator). Not one. I even had one submerged in water once..... soaking wet. That thing still works like new till this day.
Customer service, top notch. If you do further mod your car,...call them up, tell them what you've modded, they'll help you out like no other company in this industry.
Peace out.
I wouldn't... I'd just get a real tune from a tuner. A handheld tuner can only do a fraction of what a real tuning program can do. Check out EFI Live, I've had a buddy tune my cars using that and it's amazing.
You can only do so much with a handheld tuner. And for that price, ~$400, you can get a real tune.
You can only do so much with a handheld tuner. And for that price, ~$400, you can get a real tune.
I wouldn't... I'd just get a real tune from a tuner. A handheld tuner can only do a fraction of what a real tuning program can do. Check out EFI Live, I've had a buddy tune my cars using that and it's amazing.
You can only do so much with a handheld tuner. And for that price, ~$400, you can get a real tune.
You can only do so much with a handheld tuner. And for that price, ~$400, you can get a real tune.
What do you mean it can only do a fraction? Are you talking about buying SOFTWARE?....somthing that requires a PC/LABTOP(tuning skill)?... as opposed to a handheld tuner?.. that has a good, basic tune in the cal, that does make power?
Well, I like the software that you mentioned,..as well as others. Problem is, one, the software requires a computer. A custom tune ONLY,...is just that, you pay someone to tune your car,..... and boom, they are done. What happens when you add another part to the car? you'd have to pay someone to retune in right?
The predator can grow with the car, and it's mods. So can software... but knowledge, or downloading someone else already built calibrations, is the same thing as using a "generic/basic" tune that a handheld programmer, or a mailorder tune, isn't it? It's a tune built somewhere, on a car in that area's heat/baro/elev/etc.... Same thing. Just in the predator, it can fit underneath your seat,..and stay there.
To each his own. Just providing feedback seeing I have used this product over and over and over again. It is what it is, the product is great(imo)
^ Right of course you would have to get it retuned after major mods - cams, heads, intake, etc..
But from what I understand the handheld can only tune up to 10% one way or the other as far as fuel goes.. Maybe I'm wrong. Either way you'll have to get it dyno tuned at one time or another..
But from what I understand the handheld can only tune up to 10% one way or the other as far as fuel goes.. Maybe I'm wrong. Either way you'll have to get it dyno tuned at one time or another..
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^ Right of course you would have to get it retuned after major mods - cams, heads, intake, etc..
But from what I understand the handheld can only tune up to 10% one way or the other as far as fuel goes.. Maybe I'm wrong. Either way you'll have to get it dyno tuned at one time or another..
But from what I understand the handheld can only tune up to 10% one way or the other as far as fuel goes.. Maybe I'm wrong. Either way you'll have to get it dyno tuned at one time or another..
It is limited, if your going to try and tune it on the handheld yourself for optimal WOT driving. However I have gotten cars that have gigantic injectors, blowers, and oddball setups running with the predator,... runnin soo well, that on the way to the dyno, you'd never know the car wasn't stock. We do, at that point throw the cars on the dyno, at a CMR dealer, and retune the car for new mods, and instead of having the factory diablosport flash tune, you now would have a custom dyno tuned predator file, save on your predator. DOn't know if that made sense or not.
My car, is still using a predator. Matter of fact, the 787rwhp tune was uploaded through a predator. It has grown with every mod. I do go on the dyno for anything major.... which is good, cause they keep files on record, to help people in the future that may need a file for a similar setup.
To agree with you, there is nothing better then a dyno/street tune with the proper equipment and intelligent tuner. Regardless of any software outthere, the right tuner is KEY to any succesful combo.
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