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Old Apr 18, 2006 | 06:16 PM
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Has anyone in the Denver area or more specific Broomfield heard of Dragon Race Engineering. I took my car to them for a dyno tune, but have not been that impressed yet with the customer service or the tune with the exceptions of the mechanical problems I need to get fixed. What's your opinions or have you even heard of them
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Old Apr 18, 2006 | 09:03 PM
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I've heard that a few times, but just as well I've heard of customers that are proud of their work. My ride will never go there.
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Old Apr 18, 2006 | 09:40 PM
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Ive heard of them but I get my tuning done by "huggerorangess" on LS1.com on the rockymountain forums he is really good pm him and see what he can do!
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Old Apr 18, 2006 | 10:59 PM
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I've heard the positive and the negative, just like any shop...I have also seen personlly some of their cars on the street...The've got acouple c5 vettes with prochargers and Nitrous running around....A buddy of mine has a ls1edit tune from them on his ws6 and he was impressed with the results....Just my 2cents tho....
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 03:31 AM
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Well, I'll see what happens after I get some of the mechanical issues worked out. I could have just sent the pcm off to be programmed, but I really wanted an actual dyno tune. Looking around the shop just amazed me, but he just made it seem like he didn't have time for me. Hopefully things go better when I go back in May. Thanks guys.
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Old Apr 22, 2006 | 12:33 PM
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They VERY recently had my car for a dyno tune.

Scheduled to get done Wednesday this week.
Needed to push it back a day or two. No big deal.
Well...went to pick it up Friday afternoon.

Still not done. Apparently a project C6 was more important than my lowly Trans Am. Would have taken him 1-2 hours to tune my car.
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Old Apr 24, 2006 | 11:23 PM
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Sounds very familiar, except I trailered mine out 350 miles to get it done. Let me know how long it takes them and if you're satisfied or not.
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Old Apr 25, 2006 | 06:20 PM
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They aren't getting my car back.
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Old Apr 26, 2006 | 02:07 PM
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Who are you going to have do it then. I don't know of anyone else in the area that can do it.
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Old Apr 26, 2006 | 07:28 PM
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There is a friend of mine here that knows tuning really well.

Just gotta get some dyno time....which I think I have set-up May 2nd.
I don't know if he can help you with an LT1.
PM'd you.
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Originally Posted by dr97z
Has anyone in the Denver area or more specific Broomfield heard of Dragon Race Engineering. I took my car to them for a dyno tune, but have not been that impressed yet with the customer service or the tune with the exceptions of the mechanical problems I need to get fixed. What's your opinions or have you even heard of them

What mechanical problems need do you need to fix?
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Old Apr 28, 2006 | 04:22 PM
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Had to put plugs in, because the shop that installed the motor mixed 5 & 7 on the injector wiring harness around and fouled out the plugs. The TPS sensor is bad, so I have to replace that, and he's almost positive the Comp springs that were installed aren't enough for the cam. The motor should pull to 6500 with the CC 230/236 and the power straight lined down at 5500, would not pull above that.
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Old May 1, 2006 | 06:37 PM
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At least it wasn't money for me.
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