I am really needing to get my car tuned bad i know a lot of you all dont like him, but he is only 30 min from my house. I hear a lot of you all saying that you pick so much hp over his mail order tunes and stuff. Does he tune good on dyno tunes. There is no one besides him in my area that will tune a ls1 on the dyno. And yes i know he lock the computer but if he does a good job i wont need to have it messed with. I was just wanting some input on how good he is on dyno tunes.

 

I think Ed will do you right. When you go for tuning, tell him specifically that you'll be playing with Edit and that you don't want the PCM locked.

 

I'm confused. Why would he agree not to lock the PCM ahead of time if he won't agree to unlock it afterwards? His concern is copies of his research being distributed.

I asked him politely if he would unlock mine, and he said that if he did it for one person, he'd have to do it for all.

 

He should be able to get your car tuned well for you on the dyno. He did pretty well with my mail-order setup. Like Onyx said, I would specifically tell him to NOT lock the PCM!

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by JimMueller:
<strong>I'm confused. Why would he agree not to lock the PCM ahead of time if he won't agree to unlock it afterwards? His concern is copies of his research being distributed.

I asked him politely if he would unlock mine, and he said that if he did it for one person, he'd have to do it for all.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is an excuse of those types of tuners for if you think about it for the flash has that cars VIN number which you would not want flashed onto any other car.

How would the user get the flash off their car,
well they would have to have LS1edit and if they had ls1edit why would they then pay someone else to do a tune a totally different way.

Even if they got into the flash tables, big deal, GM designed it and all there is is some value changes that most of use can already do.

As to the lock, as with anything else, within a few months of tuners locking someone wrote a program that overrides the lock and downloads all the tables, so why continue to lock them ?

I've seen so called super tuner flashes and in my view they lock them so you do NOT see what they did not do, what little they did do and how lousy a "canned" "cookie cutter" flash you got stuck with.
To make it worse you find instead of tuning properly they turn off functions like knock or misfire so you do not know what engine damage is being down by the shotgun tune they wacked you with.

Locking is uncalled for and IMHO any tuner doing this should noy be marketed for free via forums.

I know the hell for I had the powerloader shaft PCM job and once I got Ls1edit I found a total of 3 minor changes to the so called custom calibration and a lousy performing powertrain.

Best path is to do your own tuning then you know what was changed and you know it was done right.