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Old 09-15-09, 04:56 PM
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Heard of Church Automotive Tuning?

His name is Shawn Church. They are located in So Cal. He is a well known tuner for Honda's. My cousin praised this guy like he's the best tuner in California. Shawn Church states Power FC is what he touches everyday and is very familiar with that ECU. He also claimed that he can tune RX-7, FD's, Rotary whatever.

My cousin came back with his Miata and pulled very impressive power and torque.
Just wanted to see if any of you guys heard of this guy? and if anyone had their rx7 tune by him?

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Originally Posted by fd3s_rx7
His name is Shawn Church. They are located in So Cal. He is a well known tuner for Honda's. My cousin praised this guy like he's the best tuner in California. Shawn Church states Power FC is what he touches everyday and is very familiar with that ECU. He also claimed that he can tune RX-7, FD's, Rotary whatever.

My cousin came back with his Miata and pulled very impressive power and torque.
Just wanted to see if any of you guys heard of this guy? and if anyone had their rx7 tune by him?

Thanks
We have used him on a number of project cars for SportsCar magazine - recently an RX-8 with a COBB unit and an MX-5 with a Mega Squirt - Shawn really knows his stuff. His shop did over 1500 cars last year.
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Heh, I thought the title said "Church OF Automotive Tuning."
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Originally Posted by ULLLOSE
We have used him on a number of project cars for SportsCar magazine - recently an RX-8 with a COBB unit and an MX-5 with a Mega Squirt - Shawn really knows his stuff. His shop did over 1500 cars last year.
Interesting.!.! I searched him on our forum and found nothing,. But rather Steve kan Name pops up all the time. Oh well. My cousin is planning on bringing his turbo miata back next month or so. I might just bring mine to him and see.
Old 09-15-09, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by DivinDriver
Heh, I thought the title said "Church OF Automotive Tuning."
Yeah I thought that too when I first saw it, I was like damn he's that good to be naming his shop that., but found it's his last name. lol
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ive seen cars in mags hes tuned... but they were all hondas like you stated
Old 09-15-09, 08:56 PM
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church gets down...he is well known and praised left and right
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^ yeah but can this guy tune a rotary? there is a huge difference between someone who tune a PFC and someone who can tune a rotary... rotary tuning is tedious stuff
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He tuned my friends civic 250whp na.
There famous but i never heard or seen a rotary tuned by them
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^if your goint to get it tuned by a honda shop might as well go to Redzone Perfonrmance in Freemont, they had an all motor k20 with 300 whp?
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He tuned an RX-8 with a 13BRE and a haltech.
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Can he tune a Nikki?
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Tuning a turbo rotary is a whole different thing from an NA rotary or a turbo piston car. No room for error or "backing off when it starts pinging".
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Originally Posted by gracer7-rx7
Tuning a turbo rotary is a whole different thing from an NA rotary or a turbo piston car. No room for error or "backing off when it starts pinging".
Talk to the guy... He is not some garage rat that bought a dyno and calls himself a tuner to bring in more revenue. He has multiple engineering degrees, and even if you know what you talking about, he knows more. I don't believe there is a system out there he has not worked with.

We can go to pretty much any shop we want when we are working on something for publication, when we were doing a project with my personal car, I went to him.
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Originally Posted by gracer7-rx7
Tuning a turbo rotary is a whole different thing from an NA rotary or a turbo piston car. No room for error or "backing off when it starts pinging".

+1 on that, rotary+turbo+one little mistake= empty pockets for me...
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Shawn is an excellent tuner and really stands by/takes care of his customers. Also offers great pricing. He can and does tune FD RX7's. There are a few videos online of him tuning a RED FD I believe.
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Had my turbo Teggy done by him back in '03. Nice guy, knew what he was doing. Does he still use the hub dyno?
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Old thread, but still very useful information.
Old 09-26-11, 03:39 PM
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damn right it's old, Bee doesn't even have a rotary anymore!
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what a loser





























































neither do i
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Still an excellent tuner and well known
Old 10-01-11, 02:10 PM
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09 thread brought back to life.... haha.

I'm not doubting this Church guy skills at all, but there just wasn't enough info or vouch for him back then,.... Luckily Ben was still around in Calif so I had him did an awesome tune on it.
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