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Mar 29, 2011 | 07:03 PM

edcmat-l1

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How not to tune!!

Everything wrong you can think of is held within this one file! I will GLADLY tell anyone who wants to know, where it came from and who did it! I rarely talk smack about another tuner, but this particular individual holds a special place in my heart.

This guy has been tuning a long long time. Apparently, he hasn't gotten any better, as ALL the crap I see coming out of that shop is very similar. This one is particularily horrible! It had so much idle air, combined with an unbelievably high amount of startup airflow, that it zeroed the IAC!! KOEO, the IAC went to zero.

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Mar 29, 2011 | 07:11 PM

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alright so WHO did it?

Mar 29, 2011 | 07:29 PM

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Rough day I see

Mar 29, 2011 | 07:41 PM

edcmat-l1

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Rough day I see

LOL I just hate this guy, and I don't use that word lightly. NO ONE should be able to do this and charge money for it. It's almost criminal.

Mar 29, 2011 | 07:42 PM

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alright so WHO did it?

I agree! Who?

Mar 29, 2011 | 07:50 PM

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dude, that's pathetic, the timing, VE, MAF, PE are all hacked.

Mar 29, 2011 | 07:54 PM

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dude, that's pathetic, the timing, VE, MAF, PE are all hacked.

EXACTLY!! There's NOTHING that looks like it was properly done. Hell even the displacement is wrong. It's a 408 LOLOLOLOL!!!!!

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Mar 29, 2011 | 08:02 PM

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Yikes! I would appreciate a heads up if you don't mind. I cannot imagine this type of thing frequenting any tunin related forums.....never know though.

Mar 29, 2011 | 08:11 PM

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Looks to be a sd tune primary and secondary ve don't match and thats what i call using pe for all its worth that one is not pretty at all

Mar 29, 2011 | 08:17 PM

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I would never do that to any of my customers. Should be ashamed.

Mar 29, 2011 | 08:18 PM

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Looks to be a sd tune primary and secondary ve don't match and thats what i call using pe for all its worth that one is not pretty at all

It is, maf fail is set to 0. Is this what we call PE raping?

and Wow, no LTFT's all while disabling the knock sensors, bravo!!

Mar 29, 2011 | 08:21 PM

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can you give us the state at least ? !

Mar 29, 2011 | 08:39 PM

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yep the pe is really up there has a commanded afr of 14.68 then divide the pe into it gives you a 9.17 afr at its worst tells you no time what so ever spent on getting the ve tables tuned in and looks to be a na tune with the timing in it.

Mar 29, 2011 | 11:38 PM

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OMG everthing in that tune is raped VE, Spark, Spark multipliers and retard, PE, just everthing. I would probably slap that dude if he did that to my car. He is probably one of those super cocky guys who acts like he's the best tuner in the world.

Mar 30, 2011 | 12:23 AM

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first name woudnt be from a person who first broke the sound barrier and and last name eaten everyday at mcdonalds would it? only popular tuner i can think of that a majority of people hate... lol!

Mar 30, 2011 | 06:11 AM

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Time to put this guy out to pasture

I love see the guys line up at Corvettes @ Carlisle thinking they are getting a BAD *** tune.

Mar 30, 2011 | 06:43 AM

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!!!!!!!!!!!

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first name woudnt be from a person who first broke the sound barrier and and last name eaten everyday at mcdonalds would it? only popular tuner i can think of that a majority of people hate... lol!

I think this is a great way to put the "hints" out there!!

Mar 30, 2011 | 07:03 AM

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He is probably one of those super cocky guys who acts like he's the best tuner in the world.

Funny you should say that.

Now, most of you know I'm not one to talk smack about other tuners, just out of respect. But this guy is totally different. He's a real piece of work.

Drum roll please. This tune is brought to you by none other than the great Jeff Creech of Carolina Auto Masters! FWIW, I've retuned literally dozens of cars from him over the years. They're ALL terrible, but this one kinda takes the cake.