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Old Feb 22, 2023 | 04:47 PM
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My car has exhaust, cam, heads, intake etc etc and it's tuned and runs absolutely great via mail order tune from Frost before he went MIA....

This winter I added a D1SC Procharger to my car along with a methonal injection kit. Most, if not all tuners will not rely on the meth, which is fine and makes sense.

I'm stuck in a tight spot. My family and I are moving from Iowa to TN/KY area. I need the car tuned to make the trip. One local shop is booked until June/July and another shop WILL NOT put the car on their dyno with my stock 4l60 trans with 50k miles...I sort of understand why..

What is the best course of action here? I don't need a full out dyno tune to make every last HP but it does need a safe tune for WOT conditions.

What can and should I do? With the move, I didn't budget an extra 4K for a transmission. I figured I could live with the trans for "awhile" as the car doesn't even see an oil change worth of miles a year.

is there anyone out there who can tune this via mail-in and have it be safe to drive and hammer it if I need to? I really don't know what to do..
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Old Feb 22, 2023 | 05:20 PM
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Can you reconfigure the belt to na spec and bypass the supercharger? Slap a filter on the intake, and tape off the supercharger pipe ends?

would keep you from having to completely remove the kit, and still let you run na tune
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Old Feb 22, 2023 | 05:23 PM
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Pretty sure there is a way to set up the car so it doesn't make any boost. But that doesn't really solve the problem of wanting it it to be tuned on boost. That's a last resort option.
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Old Feb 22, 2023 | 08:38 PM
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Right now it’s drivable if you stay out of boost. You shouldn’t need wot to drive to TN. If you kick the trans it definitely won’t make the drive.
what do you need more? Wot or drive to tn ?
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Originally Posted by Tyler Dietzenbach


With the move, I didn't budget an extra 4K for a transmission. I figured I could live with the trans for "awhile" as the car doesn't even see an oil change worth of miles a year.


This kinda answers your question. Get the car to where you need it to be and then go to work on it after you've moved. If it barely moves a year then you've got plenty of time to build a transmission then get it all tuned
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Old Feb 26, 2023 | 10:13 PM
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Just wondering why you cant trailer it?
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Old Feb 26, 2023 | 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyler Dietzenbach
My car has exhaust, cam, heads, intake etc etc and it's tuned and runs absolutely great via mail order tune from Frost before he went MIA....

This winter I added a D1SC Procharger to my car along with a methonal injection kit. Most, if not all tuners will not rely on the meth, which is fine and makes sense.

I'm stuck in a tight spot. My family and I are moving from Iowa to TN/KY area. I need the car tuned to make the trip. One local shop is booked until June/July and another shop WILL NOT put the car on their dyno with my stock 4l60 trans with 50k miles...I sort of understand why..

What is the best course of action here? I don't need a full out dyno tune to make every last HP but it does need a safe tune for WOT conditions.

What can and should I do? With the move, I didn't budget an extra 4K for a transmission. I figured I could live with the trans for "awhile" as the car doesn't even see an oil change worth of miles a year.

is there anyone out there who can tune this via mail-in and have it be safe to drive and hammer it if I need to? I really don't know what to do..
im in iowa and can dyno tune for you. Keep it soft and keep trans alive. I can revise via email once trans is built as well
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Old Mar 2, 2023 | 09:43 PM
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You didn't say anything about what injectors you have, but if you don't have at MINIMUM 60# injectors, with a SOLID fuel delivery system, don't even waste your $ with anything else, because now you're just stacking band aids up.
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RPM Speed/WS6 store is tuning the car next week... I have all supporting fuel mods etc. problem is solved.
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