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Old Feb 3, 2009 | 11:20 PM
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These are the two main ones I have heard of, please give any pros or cons you've experienced in your dealings with these guy's.
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Old Feb 3, 2009 | 11:31 PM
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Trifecta. Better price, amazing customer service. No turn around sending and recieving your new pcm. Plus if you have a problem with your tune then you won't have to send your pcm back and have it reprogrammed. Vince is a super nice guy. Very smart. Especially just tuning for bolt ons and the such. If you had a direct port nitrous setup and some crazy huge custom ground cam then maybe you would need custom dyno/street tune.

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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 12:55 AM
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pcm4less dumdumdum!!
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 02:16 AM
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Ion all the way, he is awesome but you know what they are both awesome including Brian at pcmforless......just whatever you want its ur choice man
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 05:23 AM
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another vote for Ion. no experience with the other guys, but my experience with madz28 has been great. great product, very fast service, good prices.
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 05:33 AM
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Ed Wright at Fast Chips has more experience than anyone with LT1 tuning. Ed races an LT1 himself. Bob
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 05:57 AM
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PCMForless here. You don't have to have any down time either. You can ask them if they have any extra computers and either purchase an additional computer with your new tune on it and then send your factory computer to them, or simply buy the 2nd computer outright. It's never a bad thing to have an extra computer for your car.
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 06:37 AM
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PCM4LESS here, Bryan will take care of ya

Oh and have been using him for 10years now!

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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 06:52 AM
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MADZ28(Ion) tune here. Updates turn around are quick and efficient. Been using him for the last 4 years now. Very happy with his tune.
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 06:55 AM
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Bryan at PCMforless.....he did one for me at his house and one on a dyno.. I never had a mail order from him.......Its nice to have a good tuner close.
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 08:55 AM
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try Alex @ pcmperformance.com
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 10:41 AM
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My vote is for Ion @ Madtuner... great customer service, fast shipping, but pcmforless is just as good !
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 11:17 AM
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I went withthe trifecta tune exellent customer service no need to remove pcm. It was at my door in 2 days you cnt beat that service, car has never ran better..
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 11:26 AM
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pcm for less, good support and has a good reputation with the local f-body crowd around here!
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 11:44 AM
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I just talked to Ion at Madtuner.com (formerlyMadz28.com) yesterday and he was very nice and helpful. Being my first tune I had a ton of novice ?'s and he answered them all with ease. I will be going with them because they ship fast and its cheaper than PCMforless.
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I have a Madtuner tune on my car and could not be happier. Very fast service and everything was exactly what I wanted. But don't think you could go wrong with pcmforless, or Ed at fast chips.
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http://www.fasterproms.net/
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Exotic Performance Plus
Ed Wright at Fast Chips has more experience than anyone with LT1 tuning. Ed races an LT1 himself. Bob
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it appears this threads author has made a decision and with no disrespect to that source and others noted, Ed Wright is the "Godfather" of PCM tuning IMHO.
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by ******
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it appears this threads author has made a decision and with no disrespect to that source and others noted, Ed Wright is the "Godfather" of PCM tuning IMHO.
I myself have tried to contact or speak to the man Ed Wright, God father of tuning or what ever and have failed for 7 years ! He's alway's busy. Karl E is he real ?
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Old Feb 4, 2009 | 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Exotic Performance Plus
Ed Wright at Fast Chips has more experience than anyone with LT1 tuning. Ed races an LT1 himself. Bob
Ed does amazing work ... has done so for me for the last 10 years.
I was there last week with a crazy custom cam with extreme overlap ... he
he had that sucker purring in no time. Last year, I brought him a H/C 350
with what I thought was a pretty good street tune and he STILL managed to find 30hp.

I was not at all impressed with the mailorder tune I got from PCMForless a few years back for my LE H/C 350.
I was even less impressed with the follow-up customer service.
I had to pay a local guy to fix the tune to make it driveable then take it to Ed for a proper tune.

I had one of Ion's tunes on a bolt-on car a few years back .. I have no complaints whatsoever,
but I've never tried one of his tunes on anything radical.

Originally Posted by lt1-xjs
I myself have tried to contact or speak to the man Ed Wright, God father of tuning or what ever and have failed for 7 years ! He's alway's busy. Karl E is he real ?
Ed is an extremely busy man, he's in high demand because he does good work.
I've found that email is the best way to get in touch with him, he generally responds within a day or so.

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