Looking for good mail order tune
07-07-2011, 08:59 AM
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Looking for good mail order tune Hi, I'm looking for a good vendor to get a mail order tune from. History car is an 02 SS with 2200 miles on it. It has ARH long tube headers ARH high flow cats and gmmg exhaust on it, and NGK plugs that's it. I have ordered a PCM with a tune from a vendor and every time I use his pcm and turn on the either the ac or heat i.e. when the compressor kicks on the car revs up to 3 or 4k and just hangs there. I can swap pmc back and forth all day and the stock pcm works normal. I am tired of dealing with this person and want to deal with someone else. I'm quite sure it's not a freaking vacuum leak.
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07-07-2011, 10:35 AM
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I would rather not say who I used, at least until I get one from someone else. He is a big name and many have tunes from his place, but I got no where with his customer service other that there's something wrong with ur car, or u installed it wrong. I don't really have any experience with HP so not sure how hard it would b. Also it's a car I only put maybe 200 miles a yr on so I thought it would b easier to just go this route.
07-07-2011, 01:28 PM
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07-07-2011, 01:59 PM
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Im with 2XLS1. Thats incredible that you only have 2200 miles on your car. Fantastic! Anyways lol, i hear a lot of guys using HP tuners and getting great results. Do you have a shop near your place that can possibly tune your pcm on a dyno? That way you can see what the car is doing as its rolling on the rollers. Just a thought, it might be more expensive, but its worth it IMO. I heard Trifecta is pretty good over at LS1LT1.com. I think they do a whole slew of GM cars and trucks and its a mail order tune type of setup. Trifecta Performance i think they are called. You should give them a call maybe and see if they can help you out?
07-07-2011, 03:00 PM
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Im with 2XLS1. Thats incredible that you only have 2200 miles on your car. Fantastic! Anyways lol, i hear a lot of guys using HP tuners and getting great results. Do you have a shop near your place that can possibly tune your pcm on a dyno? That way you can see what the car is doing as its rolling on the rollers. Just a thought, it might be more expensive, but its worth it IMO. I heard Trifecta is pretty good over at LS1LT1.com. I think they do a whole slew of GM cars and trucks and its a mail order tune type of setup. Trifecta Performance i think they are called. You should give them a call maybe and see if they can help you out?
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07-07-2011, 04:22 PM
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Yea i wouldnt drive 3 hours to get my car tuned either. Hmm, im hoping others will chime in on this for you. My only guess would to be to call Trifecta Performance and see what they can do for you. They basically send you a handheld tuner type of deal and you load the tune into your pcm, then send them back the tuner and thats about it i think. Last time i checked them out, they had some pretty reasonable prices. But i hope others will give more options then the one i gave you....
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So, from reading a few posts have ppl had problems similar to this before? I'm fairly confident there's nothing wrong with the car seeing as I can swap in the stock pcm at any time and it runs fine, it has 2200 miles, lives in a heated garage, has never seen rain, and I have an electronics engineering degree so swapping out a pcm is very simple.
Thanks for all the replies so far.
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07-13-2011, 05:19 PM
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Mail order bad. Tune in person good. I blew my motor the first run on a mail order tune. I'm boosting 5 lbs though. That tuners name rhymes with "Well son" Performance, but starts with the letter "N". I'm sure frost or the others on here won't do you wrong if you can't do it in person.
