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Old Jul 28, 2005 | 10:43 AM
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Just got the car done and it's almost ready to be driven. I'm going to have to drive it about 30 miles to More Performance to have it tuned. Will it hurt the car to drive it on an auto PCM with a manual in it? I have to have it flashed to a manual PCM.

I'd like to drive it around a bit before taking it down there though so I can get used to the Revlok clutch...I heard it's going to be fun.

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Old Jul 28, 2005 | 11:08 AM
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shouldnt, where do you live? id watch out with more performance, they do some great jobs and some real shitty job, its about 50/50 from the cars i have seen. i don tknow if its people that have come and went but just a heads up
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Old Jul 28, 2005 | 11:33 AM
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All they do is tune my car. From what I seen at the shop, they would NEVER bring a wrench anywhere near my car. I'm not at all happy with the way they tuned it last time. It still wouldn't even pass an inspection.....plus they have it idling at 1050rpms! I'm even worried about having it dyno tuned again. They actually hit the limiter while spraying it last time! The only thing I can say good about them, is that they actually kept trying to get the tune right, just couldn't quite manage to do it. If I hadn't already paid the initial dyno tune cost, I would take it elsewhere.

But you're right, I see these 800+rwhp machines they produce and I get confused on just how they manage it. Hell, there was a procharged 427 Vette last time I was there...they built the whole thing. It's weird.
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Old Jul 28, 2005 | 01:49 PM
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yeah man, no need to idle that high thats rediculous, they should beable to drop it to 850 with no problems.
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Old Jul 29, 2005 | 09:47 AM
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shouldnt, where do you live? id watch out with more performance, they do some great jobs and some real shitty job, its about 50/50 from the cars i have seen. i don tknow if its people that have come and went but just a heads up
Count me in the horrible experience. I bought Stage 3 heads and had to send them back AFTER I had already installed them due to real shitty job. Hell, I didn't even notice but I only had 2 angle valve job. Took them to a local machine shop and they said it's obvious they have the equipment to do a good job, but they didn't. Valve seats were weak and ports were no where close to what the flow specs said. I finally had the machine shop here make them right with no help from More...errr Less Performance. Support sucked, ofcourse I wasn't local to them so couldn't stay in their faces to make support better. I'd suggest finding another tuner. You are gonna find they have quick turn around for the bulk of the employees.
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Old Jul 29, 2005 | 01:16 PM
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Man, this really sucks. I'd love to swap tuners, but I can't fork over anouther $650 for the inital dyno fee. Yes they charged me $650....hell, it cost me $80 for them to weld, if you want to call it that, the wideband bung in my exhaust. I'll never recommend anyone go there.
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Old Jul 29, 2005 | 01:28 PM
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holy ****, i thought i would ask too much when i want 150 bucks to tune my friends car, damn
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