Looking for a tuner that is not to "busy"
Hope it wasn't me. Ed H. Seems pretty damn sharp to me. Nobody is going to make everybody happy, and Jimmie Blue is exactly right. I get so many calls from people wanting engine building advice, ("Would you recommend a cam? "How much compression should I run?", etc) it's very hard to get my work done sometimes. And, more than half don't even say they are going to have me do the tuning. Hard to be polite sometimes. I do the best I can.
Still don't know who Patrick G. is. LOL
Thought I knew or had heard of most of them.
Jimmyblue is spot on.
Some of these tuners get 40-50+ emails and pm's a day with atleast 2-3 questions and they work alone. If all were to be answered everyday within 24 hours you would never get any work done. Nobody is perfect and without scanning the car to know it is working properly then blaming the tune is just pointing a finger.
Some of these tuners get 40-50+ emails and pm's a day with atleast 2-3 questions and they work alone. If all were to be answered everyday within 24 hours you would never get any work done. Nobody is perfect and without scanning the car to know it is working properly then blaming the tune is just pointing a finger.
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Thanks for all the replies. Looks like I need to find a tuner that is not to far away. I'm in central Mississippi so do y'all know anyone that is not to far away that is pretty good? No mail order tune for me.
While none of these list tuning if they don't I bet they know who would.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/vendor_di...p?location=154
https://ls1tech.com/forums/vendor_di...p?location=154
It's just not possible to correctly tune every car without having them in front of you. Most will work fine, but a few won't and it will cost you a lot of time and bad reputation in the forums.
I have had customers who came to me for tuning, the car works good and they go very happy. They call me a month later telling me the tune is now wrong and the car is running poorly. Then I check the car only to find all sort of problems, not related to tuning (faulty O2, clogged injectors, bad spark plug wires, etc).
Every owner assumes that just because I tuned the damn car I must be responsible for every problem the car has (due to poor maintenance or cheap parts).
A few days after I tuned a truck, the A/C compressor burned. Guess who was responsible? Me, because the A/C was working fine before the tune. Same thing happened once with a Firebird's headlights. What sorcery is this?
I think the same applies to mail order tunes.
I have had customers who came to me for tuning, the car works good and they go very happy. They call me a month later telling me the tune is now wrong and the car is running poorly. Then I check the car only to find all sort of problems, not related to tuning (faulty O2, clogged injectors, bad spark plug wires, etc).
Every owner assumes that just because I tuned the damn car I must be responsible for every problem the car has (due to poor maintenance or cheap parts).
A few days after I tuned a truck, the A/C compressor burned. Guess who was responsible? Me, because the A/C was working fine before the tune. Same thing happened once with a Firebird's headlights. What sorcery is this?
I think the same applies to mail order tunes.
It's just not possible to correctly tune every car without having them in front of you. Most will work fine, but a few won't and it will cost you a lot of time and bad reputation in the forums.
I have had customers who came to me for tuning, the car works good and they go very happy. They call me a month later telling me the tune is now wrong and the car is running poorly. Then I check the car only to find all sort of problems, not related to tuning (faulty O2, clogged injectors, bad spark plug wires, etc).
Every owner assumes that just because I tuned the damn car I must be responsible for every problem the car has (due to poor maintenance or cheap parts).
A few days after I tuned a truck, the A/C compressor burned. Guess who was responsible? Me, because the A/C was working fine before the tune. Same thing happened once with a Firebird's headlights. What sorcery is this?
I think the same applies to mail order tunes.
I have had customers who came to me for tuning, the car works good and they go very happy. They call me a month later telling me the tune is now wrong and the car is running poorly. Then I check the car only to find all sort of problems, not related to tuning (faulty O2, clogged injectors, bad spark plug wires, etc).
Every owner assumes that just because I tuned the damn car I must be responsible for every problem the car has (due to poor maintenance or cheap parts).
A few days after I tuned a truck, the A/C compressor burned. Guess who was responsible? Me, because the A/C was working fine before the tune. Same thing happened once with a Firebird's headlights. What sorcery is this?
I think the same applies to mail order tunes.
NO...he may be good when he is in front of you, but for the $300 I spent and the tune I sent him and tons of questions, I and others that have PM'd me were not happy. I just wanted something that would get me drivable enough to get to the dyno. After a TON of emails trying to get responses I felt like I was harrassing the guy. Emails were timely before the money was sent then excuse after excuse as to why he didn't work my tune. Then when I find after the insane amount of detail I gave him about my swap his tune has the wrong injector data in it...please. I learned my lesson about mail order tunes. Shame on me.
Get a buddy with a trailer and find a tuner near by. If you were close enough to me I would come and get you and take you to the nearest place.
Get a buddy with a trailer and find a tuner near by. If you were close enough to me I would come and get you and take you to the nearest place.
Sorry you didn't like the service, but please don't post things that aren't true like the injector data is/was off, because it isn't/wasn't.
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He's a tuner based out of Houston/Victoria TX as well as a site moderator on here. He does mail order and dyno tuning.
We took my buddies 408, turboed truck to him for a dyno tune a couple months ago and I was very impressed with the quality and time he spent on the tune. A great deal of time spent on idle, driveability as well as WOT. He also tuned the trans and set WOT shift points on the dyno. Not just a couple WOT runs, "oh it made 600 on 9psi your done now, where is my money" tune. He spent a good 4.5-5 hours on the tune. Money well spent IMHO.
Yeah, but nobody is so great that everybody else stands in their shadow. LOL
Somebody was impressed with 500 rwhp LS1. Nothing new there, nor even with 500 rwhp LT1s. Did all that years ago. That's the engine builder, not the tuner anyway. As for hp, there is no magic in the computer other that finding the air/fuel & spark advance the engine likes. And what it likes on a dyno is not what will make it go down the track the quickest.
Start up, idle, drivability and fuel economy are the hardest parts.
Somebody was impressed with 500 rwhp LS1. Nothing new there, nor even with 500 rwhp LT1s. Did all that years ago. That's the engine builder, not the tuner anyway. As for hp, there is no magic in the computer other that finding the air/fuel & spark advance the engine likes. And what it likes on a dyno is not what will make it go down the track the quickest.
Start up, idle, drivability and fuel economy are the hardest parts.
Yeah, but nobody is so great that everybody else stands in their shadow. LOL
Somebody was impressed with 500 rwhp LS1. Nothing new there, nor even with 500 rwhp LT1s. Did all that years ago. That's the engine builder, not the tuner anyway. As for hp, there is no magic in the computer other that finding the air/fuel & spark advance the engine likes. And what it likes on a dyno is not what will make it go down the track the quickest.
Start up, idle, drivability and fuel economy are the hardest parts.
Somebody was impressed with 500 rwhp LS1. Nothing new there, nor even with 500 rwhp LT1s. Did all that years ago. That's the engine builder, not the tuner anyway. As for hp, there is no magic in the computer other that finding the air/fuel & spark advance the engine likes. And what it likes on a dyno is not what will make it go down the track the quickest.
Start up, idle, drivability and fuel economy are the hardest parts.
I had a mail order tune from the "shall not be named" tuner, and it ran fine for what it was...
The car ran pretty rich and I contacted a local tuner. Drove the car there, and put it on the rollers, the car barely made 300rwhp, 304 to be exact. After a couple of hours and most of it was done with the car not even rolling, just sitting idling, the car ended up picking up 74rwhp. I took it to the track with the mail order tune and at a very well prepped track it ran 12.80s. Took it to the track the week after it was tuned and ended up running 11.70s very consistantly as well.
Find yourself a tuner and go there and ask questions even if you don't plan on every tuning your own car because just knowing how it works will help diagnose a problem in the future..
The car ran pretty rich and I contacted a local tuner. Drove the car there, and put it on the rollers, the car barely made 300rwhp, 304 to be exact. After a couple of hours and most of it was done with the car not even rolling, just sitting idling, the car ended up picking up 74rwhp. I took it to the track with the mail order tune and at a very well prepped track it ran 12.80s. Took it to the track the week after it was tuned and ended up running 11.70s very consistantly as well.
Find yourself a tuner and go there and ask questions even if you don't plan on every tuning your own car because just knowing how it works will help diagnose a problem in the future..
