Tuner can't tune my car
05-25-2010, 11:50 AM
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I am pretty sure the TPS on yours is not adjustable & theres no resetting of it. The more you adjust your idle screw just makes the TPS voltage go up, & the PCM reads that & will increase the injector spray time. It does sound like you may need to have it retuned. How much did you pay for the first tune? I realize you got the cam for nothing but sometimes a good deal isnt always a good deal especially when you dont know what youre working with. A good deal & trying to save some money will usually cost more when all said & done.
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05-25-2010, 01:03 PM
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I am pretty sure the TPS on yours is not adjustable & theres no resetting of it. The more you adjust your idle screw just makes the TPS voltage go up, & the PCM reads that & will increase the injector spray time. It does sound like you may need to have it retuned. How much did you pay for the first tune? I realize you got the cam for nothing but sometimes a good deal isnt always a good deal especially when you dont know what youre working with. A good deal & trying to save some money will usually cost more when all said & done.
http://s269.photobucket.com/albums/j...ed-98/AUTOTAP/
05-25-2010, 01:28 PM
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and it appears like that is the case with me lol.I believe it was like 400 bux.he said he wouldn't charge me the full price because he couldn't fully tune.He also installed some 42lb/hr injectors so that was part of the price.I will be investigating another tuner and if he says the same thing then I'm gonna just go with a new cam.Here is a link to some pics I took of the autotap.Incase someone knowledgeable wants to take a crack at it.They were all at idle
http://s269.photobucket.com/albums/j...ed-98/AUTOTAP/
http://s269.photobucket.com/albums/j...ed-98/AUTOTAP/
If you knew he couldnt fully tune & you paid him $400 then you must have a lot of money. Theres no way I wouldve let him tune my car if he told me that. You paid close to full price, I paid $445 last year after my cam install, to a reputable tuner. Some do charge more but I would say thats average. You might not need to go with a different cam but its not a bad idea cuz that way you know whats in there & not a blower cam with no specs. & find a reputable tuner that knows what the hell theyre doing, that might help. I cant imagine changing some injectors is all that hard either but you got what you got.
05-25-2010, 01:29 PM
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lol on that.The a/f is at that on idle and stays steady all the way up.This is suppose to be a reputable shop.But I'm just gonna take it in to the other tuner in the area.I also didn't notice any knock at all but I was thinking that he could just have turned the sensitivity down on the sensors.No audible knock either
so what shop did you take your car to? if you don't want to put them on blast pm me. reason i ask is i need to have my car tuned later this year but i don't know who i'm goin to take it too
05-25-2010, 01:42 PM
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42 lbs/hr injectors huh? Mine new cost me almost $400 was he gonna throw in the tune for free. Does he know how to correct for 42 lbs/hr injectors? Might explain the whole eyes burning thing...
05-25-2010, 02:01 PM
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I adjusted the idle screw and it helped some but it still burns the eyes.I ran the auto tap and my stock o2 sensors were detecting a 14.5 mixture.My timing was at about 22* advance bu when I reved to about 4500rpm it jumped to about 38* or so.Is this normal.It didn't seem normal to me
05-25-2010, 03:08 PM
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I had the injectors already laying around.So he just charged the install.Full price I believe was 550.00 for a full tune.I will be taking my car to rick @synergy motorsports for a tune and I'm not returning to the other guy
05-25-2010, 06:50 PM
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lol alot of people like him from around here in northern california,that is the reason I went to him in the first place.But I don't wanna hate on him.He seemed like a nice enough guy.He did put me through a wild goose chase over a blown fuse.Made me believe my transmission was goin out
05-25-2010, 10:02 PM
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lol alot of people like him from around here in northern california,that is the reason I went to him in the first place.But I don't wanna hate on him.He seemed like a nice enough guy.He did put me through a wild goose chase over a blown fuse.Made me believe my transmission was goin out
05-26-2010, 12:08 AM
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lol alot of people like him from around here in northern california,that is the reason I went to him in the first place.But I don't wanna hate on him.He seemed like a nice enough guy.He did put me through a wild goose chase over a blown fuse.Made me believe my transmission was goin out
05-26-2010, 12:20 AM
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lol on that.The a/f is at that on idle and stays steady all the way up.This is suppose to be a reputable shop.But I'm just gonna take it in to the other tuner in the area.I also didn't notice any knock at all but I was thinking that he could just have turned the sensitivity down on the sensors.No audible knock either
05-26-2010, 09:26 AM
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The tuner did say that the he suspected the cam was bad or installed bad however he also told me my tranny was blown.I left the car shifting very well with no problems so I didn't think it would just go like that.I drove it home under limp mode and found it was a fuse he couldn't diagnose so he couldn't tune it the first time.When I took it back to him thats when he said he couldn't tune it, that either my cam was bad or incorrectly installed or my engine was blown or so crap I can't remember