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Old May 14, 2005 | 02:28 PM
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When I had my LT1 I had PCMforless do my tunning and I was TOTALLY please with them....has anyone used them to tune your LS1 or is it better to just do a Dyno Tune???
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Old May 15, 2005 | 01:47 AM
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Don't use Ed.
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If you think that your motor is exactly the same as every other ls-1, then by all means, get a mail order tune. If your motor might be slightly different, or, if you want to extract all the possible power from it, get HPtuners. I also hear that flashscan has a good tuning tool now, but I haven't tried it. My point is that with a little bit of work, you can do better than any "canned" mail-order tune. PCMforless, nelson, fastchips, and everyone else has some good tuners working for them, but nothing can compare to writing your own tune for your own engine. Besides, working on this **** is almost as fun as driving it.
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Dude.. you got the best with Brian of pcmforless...
STAY with him...
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brian at pcmforless is the best, i tried a tuner in tx(houston), but he was total crap, it took brian all day too clean up his tune.

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Originally Posted by fact9c1
brian at pcmforless is the best, i tried a tuner in tx(houston), but he was total crap, it took brian all day too clean up his tune.

ken
which tuner did you tryin Houston? Shoot me a PM if you do not want to post them up. Thanks.

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