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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 06:35 PM
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I don't know why I ever paid someone to tune my old transam before, after getting this new version of HP Tuners and spending a few hours on my vette it's night and day difference!

It's hard to explain how much better of a tune you will get on the road vs a dyno to someone who's never used HP tuners or LS1edit, etc however I can tell you that tuning on the road with a datalogger and verifying your changes with a Wideband is the ONLY way to tune for DRIVABILITY.

Dyno tuning pretty much consists of idle tuning, deleting codes, adding timing, and tuning the Power Enrichment (WOT) tuning. There is so much more to tune that cannot be done on the dyno (unless is a load bearing dyno), however most "dyno tuned" cars are ran on a dynojet.

Tuning LTRMS is a big part that should be done on the road with a datalogger, analyzing knock on part/full throttle, LTRMS, timing, torque converter lockup, line pressure,etc.

I guess what I'm trying to say is drivability tuning needs to be done on the road. It would take a few hours to tune a car the RIGHT way, but I can tell you it would be well worth it, after seeing some "dyno" tunes that people have had in their cars I really recommend getting HP Tuners or equivilant and tuning it yourself, you'll be much happier with the results (hopefully you can read and understand stuff).

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Mike Brown
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 06:58 PM
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Damn Mike congrats..
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 07:12 PM
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I totally agree mike, tuning on the street is a great step to a well running car, and for the price tuning software is a very good investment.
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 08:38 PM
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If only I had an unlimited # of credits on my HP tuners, we could tune the whole southern section!
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by m1key99WS6
If only I had an unlimited # of credits on my HP tuners, we could tune the whole southern section!
Then why dont you get off your *** and do something about that
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 02:08 AM
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Originally Posted by m1key99WS6
If only I had an unlimited # of credits on my HP tuners, we could tune the whole southern section!
You can get all year LS1s for ~$1500. Maybe the whole southern section should do a massive group purchase or something.
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 03:28 AM
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So I hear- If mine would hurry up and ship...
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 03:33 AM
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Whoops...Just got an Email, supposed to ship by Tuesday. Too bad It'll be a month before I can get home to use it.
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i can go over and try to see if the car will take a flash if you want once hptuners comes in. I forget which car it was.
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