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Sep 29, 2008 | 11:02 AM

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tunning question

i have a 93 z28. car runs like a somma bitch. extremly lean and i cant take it anymore. im putting in a lt4 hot cam, ported heads, intake, and another stage2 tranny this winter. anyone know how to tune this car. ive heard i should use pcm for less, but the car will never be at its best potential. any knowledge?

Sep 29, 2008 | 11:26 AM

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being a 93 car its not a flashable eprom. So your going to have to burn chips if you want to do it yourself. Some very good reading for someone in your position. http://www.speeddensity.org/showthread.php?t=679

Sep 29, 2008 | 11:31 AM

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PCM For Less and MADZ28 still do 93's though, so he can still go with them. I believe Ion from MADZ28 is supposed to be one hell of a ECM tuner. I don't remember who you want to go through with PCM For Less though, for ECMs I mean.

Sep 29, 2008 | 11:46 AM

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never said they didnt just letting him know whats involved if he wanted to do it himself.

Sep 29, 2008 | 12:42 PM

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i dont know how to tune cars, so i will be using all of this advice to my beneifts. i appreciate your knowledge

Sep 29, 2008 | 06:25 PM

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You'll probably want to do a mail order tune...unless you're interested in learning to tune. Do some research, make a choice.

Ive got a good tuner that I take my car to see in Waco(kind of local). Being able to drive the car (or dyno) with the tuner there and make adjustments is the way to go. Helps get the tune dialed into your setup. This method really starts to come into play once you've made several modifications (cam, heads, bolt-ons, etc)

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You'll probably want to do a mail order tune...unless you're interested in learning to tune. Do some research, make a choice.

This is the way I went, but unless you can find someone who will burn chips for you for relatively no cost, I don't really recommend it. Simply due to the amount of trial and error involved in it. You'll be burning tons of chips if you want to get the most out of it you personally can. That's the only reason why I did it only once, I don't know anyone who can burn me a chip for my latest revision. And the hardware to do it isn't exactly cheap. While it's about the same as what a mail order is, you sadly won't get that same performance that they can get you