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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 09:20 AM
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Hello,

Can anybody tell me where I can program my ECM PCM COMPUTER for LT1/LT4 ??

I have already tried so many times with tpis.com but they never respond to any of my emails.

Can somebody help me>>

Thanks.
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 09:58 AM
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Do it yourself.

Buy a cable that plugs into a laptop.

www.moates.net

then download a program then tune.

that simple.

Start small. Disable EGR, set fans, etc when you get comfortable, add a little timing etc
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 10:54 AM
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Buy a OBDI cable from Andrew
http://www.akmcables.com/ic.htm

buy the OBDI tuning program from TC
http://www.tunercat.com/

and have at it
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 11:16 AM
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Count yourself lucky that TPIS did not get back to you.
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 11:22 AM
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Not to sound like a dick but u need to stop reading ads in the back of magazines or quit listening to whoever is giving you advise. I'm assuming that's why you went with the Hypertech, not once but twice, according to your other post. If you had researched all the different Lt1 boards I doubt you would've found anyone who would've pointed you towards the Hypercrap. As for TPIS, once again if you researched you might have found a few people satisfied with them. Also, if a business would not respond to my emails, after about the 2nd or 3rd email I would have sent an email telling them to kiss my *** and so on.
To get you started, www.tunercats.com Click on links for datalogging programs, I'd recommend Datamasters.
If you want someone else to do the tuning, www.pcmforless.com, www.madz28.com, Ed Wright at www.fastchip.com
There are others but the the 1st 2 sites get mentioned a lot. There's been debate as to who is better. Once again use the search since this stuff has been debated many times over.
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 11:45 AM
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call ion at mad tune very nice guy super easy to deal with, and great pricing.
if you ever need a retune he only charges you 50 bucks.
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 10:10 PM
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madz28 and pcmforless are the best out there.
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 11:22 PM
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so whos the best with a basic tune and with a buget cost
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There are a number of good tuners all across the country. Then there are a number of POPULAR tuners that people mistake for good.

I have used pcmforless and in hindsight consider that a mistake.

I have used pcmperformance and am happy.

I have loaded madz28 programms for several friends with good results and used him for pcm repair, again happy with that.

In between all that I used another tuner that tends to stay out of the mailorder thing, as I learned more I began to see he had put almost no effort into my programming, which really sucks because he was the most expensive I tried.

Ed Wright is good, far as I know he was the first to offer custom LT1 tuning. Been tuning things WELL longer than many of us have been alive.
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 11:35 PM
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how much will a tune improved 1/4 mile like in a stock headed 355 stock cam car with a 3200 stall stock gears shorty headers
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Old Jul 6, 2009 | 05:43 AM
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Impossible to know other than to say it should be substantial. A bone stock car benefits from a reprogramming, it is crucial to making a modified engine run right.
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Old Jul 6, 2009 | 09:49 AM
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TPIS once sent me an email regarding an order i was trying to place with them asking me bout the shipping method, so i replied to their email and never heard of them again, kept on sending them several reminders but no respond so ever,,they do have good products but customer servise sucks
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