PLZ STICKY. Steve Kan Tuning week of SS8!!!
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i'm actually pretty happy about the job on mine..i just gotta fix my stumble on WOT (probably change out new injectors) and my second turbo kicks in @ 5500rpm. BTW does anybody have similar issues with their turbos?
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Happy with mine as well. You left before I got mine Silver 2nd gen done, but he did a very good job. The car runs well and is very smooth. I think my only personal complaint is that it didn't take very long to do mine, and it was pretty pricey. Not that he didn't take the time needed, but that it just didn't take very long.
But the car runs sweet and I am very pleased. Thenks for setting this up Roman.
Mike
But the car runs sweet and I am very pleased. Thenks for setting this up Roman.
Mike
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Originally Posted by BicuspiD
Got done with my tune today - a little disappointed with it for the price paid, but better safe than sorry huh?
My car wasnt on the dyno for more than ~ 1 hr and hardly any changes were made that I could tell - Steve was unable to set my boost for some reason ( no boost controller? I thought the PFC did that...plus running stock boost..) - when I came in I pulled 295+ on my tuning.. when I left it was 294 something at I don't even know what PSI it wound up at- 13ish? Didn't get an A/F reading, but it seemed the wideband was fouling out/acting up too, so who knows...?- I figured I'd get a before and after printout or something, but that wasn't an option - so I can't even compare tunes..
Midrange is a little stronger, but it falls on its face up higher, once the 2ndary turbo kicks in . Feels muddy like theres way too much fuel, but I guess it could be the catalyst being clogged too (it pulled hard before this tho..) Not much to report on other than that. Car has a little more throttle response in midrange, but not $500+ worth. Not being able to compare the end result and starting result really just leaves me with a "wheeee...where did my cash go?" feeling.. Maybe the single turbo, totally untuned guys will feel its worth it, and get their moneys worth. In hindsight, I wish I would have blanked out the entire PFC and settings, to at least get a tune out of it, rather than an expensive trimming of my (obviously decent) MAPS
Perhaps the heat or the wideband were the culprit - who knows?.. I'm gonna tweak it a little and see what else I can get out of it and re-dyno/tune next week and see if I can make a difference.
See you at SS tomorrow!
My car wasnt on the dyno for more than ~ 1 hr and hardly any changes were made that I could tell - Steve was unable to set my boost for some reason ( no boost controller? I thought the PFC did that...plus running stock boost..) - when I came in I pulled 295+ on my tuning.. when I left it was 294 something at I don't even know what PSI it wound up at- 13ish? Didn't get an A/F reading, but it seemed the wideband was fouling out/acting up too, so who knows...?- I figured I'd get a before and after printout or something, but that wasn't an option - so I can't even compare tunes..
Midrange is a little stronger, but it falls on its face up higher, once the 2ndary turbo kicks in . Feels muddy like theres way too much fuel, but I guess it could be the catalyst being clogged too (it pulled hard before this tho..) Not much to report on other than that. Car has a little more throttle response in midrange, but not $500+ worth. Not being able to compare the end result and starting result really just leaves me with a "wheeee...where did my cash go?" feeling.. Maybe the single turbo, totally untuned guys will feel its worth it, and get their moneys worth. In hindsight, I wish I would have blanked out the entire PFC and settings, to at least get a tune out of it, rather than an expensive trimming of my (obviously decent) MAPS
Perhaps the heat or the wideband were the culprit - who knows?.. I'm gonna tweak it a little and see what else I can get out of it and re-dyno/tune next week and see if I can make a difference.
See you at SS tomorrow!
i guess everyone was happy except Richard... and for a "for your information", when you lean out the AFR's, you make more power and could potentialy blow the motor.... thats why you made that much power at the first pull... but it was wayyyyy to lean to leave a safety margin... thats why he made less power because he added fuel.... if you knew about tuning/concept of the motor, you would have thought different.......
but anyway, i got to get some sleep... i got about 8 hours in 3 day's....... DAM! (and thats more than Steve got
)-Roman
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The first pull was on a different map than what you had so that you wouldn't see too much difference between the rest of the pull. The previous map you had was a stock PFC map from what I remembered (I have it saved in my laptop if its not a stock map), I guess if you want to compare the difference, you could easily reset the pfc and see how much different there was between the car. The reason why your first pull wasn't much different than the last pull was because I forgot to turn down the boost controller (pfc setting) when I loaded a different map in your pfc after checking with the rest of the settings along with adding more fuel to start out with(obviosly it was still a little lean), it was also set high (boost) and obviously shows that your boost pattern was oscillating so I had to retune everything from low boost and work my way up based on your car's characteristics. Eventually, the boost level you get at the last pull was something that has a smoother transition w/o any boost osciallation. I don't usually tune the originally map that was in the car unless I see that it was easier than tuning a map that I know was good to begin with. it doesn't make sense for me to spend 4-5 hrs per car to tune when I have a good template to start out with and only requires some tweaking here and there? Also, most places do their tuning in an hourly basis. They would wait 10-15mins per pull (which we did about 15pulls on your car), You would end up paying 3.5-4hrs at $200/hr for the work I did. If you don't believe me, you could ask Dcrosby how much he spend with XS for their services. 
Originally Posted by BicuspiD
Got done with my tune today - a little disappointed with it for the price paid, but better safe than sorry huh?
My car wasnt on the dyno for more than ~ 1 hr and hardly any changes were made that I could tell - Steve was unable to set my boost for some reason ( no boost controller? I thought the PFC did that...plus running stock boost..) - when I came in I pulled 295+ on my tuning.. when I left it was 294 something at I don't even know what PSI it wound up at- 13ish? Didn't get an A/F reading, but it seemed the wideband was fouling out/acting up too, so who knows...?- I figured I'd get a before and after printout or something, but that wasn't an option - so I can't even compare tunes..
Midrange is a little stronger, but it falls on its face up higher, once the 2ndary turbo kicks in . Feels muddy like theres way too much fuel, but I guess it could be the catalyst being clogged too (it pulled hard before this tho..) Not much to report on other than that. Car has a little more throttle response in midrange, but not $500+ worth. Not being able to compare the end result and starting result really just leaves me with a "wheeee...where did my cash go?" feeling.. Maybe the single turbo, totally untuned guys will feel its worth it, and get their moneys worth. In hindsight, I wish I would have blanked out the entire PFC and settings, to at least get a tune out of it, rather than an expensive trimming of my (obviously decent) MAPS
Perhaps the heat or the wideband were the culprit - who knows?.. I'm gonna tweak it a little and see what else I can get out of it and re-dyno/tune next week and see if I can make a difference.
See you at SS tomorrow!
My car wasnt on the dyno for more than ~ 1 hr and hardly any changes were made that I could tell - Steve was unable to set my boost for some reason ( no boost controller? I thought the PFC did that...plus running stock boost..) - when I came in I pulled 295+ on my tuning.. when I left it was 294 something at I don't even know what PSI it wound up at- 13ish? Didn't get an A/F reading, but it seemed the wideband was fouling out/acting up too, so who knows...?- I figured I'd get a before and after printout or something, but that wasn't an option - so I can't even compare tunes..
Midrange is a little stronger, but it falls on its face up higher, once the 2ndary turbo kicks in . Feels muddy like theres way too much fuel, but I guess it could be the catalyst being clogged too (it pulled hard before this tho..) Not much to report on other than that. Car has a little more throttle response in midrange, but not $500+ worth. Not being able to compare the end result and starting result really just leaves me with a "wheeee...where did my cash go?" feeling.. Maybe the single turbo, totally untuned guys will feel its worth it, and get their moneys worth. In hindsight, I wish I would have blanked out the entire PFC and settings, to at least get a tune out of it, rather than an expensive trimming of my (obviously decent) MAPS
Perhaps the heat or the wideband were the culprit - who knows?.. I'm gonna tweak it a little and see what else I can get out of it and re-dyno/tune next week and see if I can make a difference.
See you at SS tomorrow!
Last edited by pluto; Oct 10, 2005 at 11:19 AM.
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Well I came close to popping my motor.
During Sunday's dyno tuning with Steve Kan, my wastegate got stuck closed and the engine overboosted to 28 psi according to the Haltech datalog. We were running 91 octane and were certain there was a mistake with the Haltech so we then checked the Profec B which read 29.4 lbs.
I have ceramic apex seals and an Aquamist system that runs 66% Methanol and 33% water. I'm sure the two of those saved me from another engine build.
Never did get the wastegate problem sorted though.
fwiw, the car made 397rwhp and 392rwtq at around 5300rpm before Steve let off. He has the dyno chart.
I think I'll start getting a NorCal tuning weekend together with Steve very soon. Roman, you can crash at my pad and I'll get you one set of ******* in your face while you are here
Roman, thanks again for organizing the event and thank you Steve for getting my engine together and back to me in time for SS8. Apparently you put together a pretty solid engine.
During Sunday's dyno tuning with Steve Kan, my wastegate got stuck closed and the engine overboosted to 28 psi according to the Haltech datalog. We were running 91 octane and were certain there was a mistake with the Haltech so we then checked the Profec B which read 29.4 lbs.
I have ceramic apex seals and an Aquamist system that runs 66% Methanol and 33% water. I'm sure the two of those saved me from another engine build.
Never did get the wastegate problem sorted though.
fwiw, the car made 397rwhp and 392rwtq at around 5300rpm before Steve let off. He has the dyno chart.
I think I'll start getting a NorCal tuning weekend together with Steve very soon. Roman, you can crash at my pad and I'll get you one set of ******* in your face while you are here
Roman, thanks again for organizing the event and thank you Steve for getting my engine together and back to me in time for SS8. Apparently you put together a pretty solid engine.
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Yeah, that was pretty CRAZY!!! You also blew out about 45 yards of black smoke at the same time I think I am still coughing...I am sure you are very happy with that build.
Hey SNARP...can I ask wh you think "you dick"? I didn't say anything bad about the tuning, just felt that it should have taken longer...but with this being my first tune, I didn't know what to expect. But it was good that he did it fast, I had a water leak and company in town so I couldn't stay too long. Anyway, I didn't mean anything bad by my statement.
Mike
I think I am still coughing...I am sure you are very happy with that build.Hey SNARP...can I ask wh you think "you dick"? I didn't say anything bad about the tuning, just felt that it should have taken longer...but with this being my first tune, I didn't know what to expect. But it was good that he did it fast, I had a water leak and company in town so I couldn't stay too long. Anyway, I didn't mean anything bad by my statement.
Mike
Originally Posted by RX-Heven
Well I came close to popping my motor.
During Sunday's dyno tuning with Steve Kan, my wastegate got stuck closed and the engine overboosted to 28 psi according to the Haltech datalog. We were running 91 octane and were certain there was a mistake with the Haltech so we then checked the Profec B which read 29.4 lbs.
I have ceramic apex seals and an Aquamist system that runs 66% Methanol and 33% water. I'm sure the two of those saved me from another engine build.
Never did get the wastegate problem sorted though.
fwiw, the car made 397rwhp and 392rwtq at around 5300rpm before Steve let off. He has the dyno chart.
I think I'll start getting a NorCal tuning weekend together with Steve very soon. Roman, you can crash at my pad and I'll get you one set of ******* in your face while you are here
Roman, thanks again for organizing the event and thank you Steve for getting my engine together and back to me in time for SS8. Apparently you put together a pretty solid engine.
During Sunday's dyno tuning with Steve Kan, my wastegate got stuck closed and the engine overboosted to 28 psi according to the Haltech datalog. We were running 91 octane and were certain there was a mistake with the Haltech so we then checked the Profec B which read 29.4 lbs.
I have ceramic apex seals and an Aquamist system that runs 66% Methanol and 33% water. I'm sure the two of those saved me from another engine build.
Never did get the wastegate problem sorted though.
fwiw, the car made 397rwhp and 392rwtq at around 5300rpm before Steve let off. He has the dyno chart.
I think I'll start getting a NorCal tuning weekend together with Steve very soon. Roman, you can crash at my pad and I'll get you one set of ******* in your face while you are here
Roman, thanks again for organizing the event and thank you Steve for getting my engine together and back to me in time for SS8. Apparently you put together a pretty solid engine.
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Hey Mike,
Microtech in general is pretty easy to tune. The only time it takes longer is when I go into the matrix mode where I have to fine tune each cell. Since you didn't have the wide range TPS, It was unneccessary to go into the matrix mode. I did make alot of changes before the first pull which ended up pretty close to my target tune. All I did after that was fine tune a few rpm points and was done with it. If it was on the street, your car would have been done in 30 mins.
Alot of time, you can't compare how long it takes for me to do a tune to someone else's tune. To give you an example, CCarlisi retune his setup months after I did his car since he upgraded a few things and needed to retune it. It took me 1hr to tune his car back then, and when he was tuning it himself, it took him 3 weeks and 10 tanks of gas to perform similar tune. I believed he ended up blowing the engine months later. Anyone can do what I do, the only difference is that I can do it faster and know how far to push before it crosses the reliability point.
Microtech in general is pretty easy to tune. The only time it takes longer is when I go into the matrix mode where I have to fine tune each cell. Since you didn't have the wide range TPS, It was unneccessary to go into the matrix mode. I did make alot of changes before the first pull which ended up pretty close to my target tune. All I did after that was fine tune a few rpm points and was done with it. If it was on the street, your car would have been done in 30 mins.
Alot of time, you can't compare how long it takes for me to do a tune to someone else's tune. To give you an example, CCarlisi retune his setup months after I did his car since he upgraded a few things and needed to retune it. It took me 1hr to tune his car back then, and when he was tuning it himself, it took him 3 weeks and 10 tanks of gas to perform similar tune. I believed he ended up blowing the engine months later. Anyone can do what I do, the only difference is that I can do it faster and know how far to push before it crosses the reliability point.
Originally Posted by RX7_Fool
Yeah, that was pretty CRAZY!!! You also blew out about 45 yards of black smoke at the same time I think I am still coughing...I am sure you are very happy with that build.
Hey SNARP...can I ask wh you think "you dick"? I didn't say anything bad about the tuning, just felt that it should have taken longer...but with this being my first tune, I didn't know what to expect. But it was good that he did it fast, I had a water leak and company in town so I couldn't stay too long. Anyway, I didn't mean anything bad by my statement.
Mike
I think I am still coughing...I am sure you are very happy with that build.Hey SNARP...can I ask wh you think "you dick"? I didn't say anything bad about the tuning, just felt that it should have taken longer...but with this being my first tune, I didn't know what to expect. But it was good that he did it fast, I had a water leak and company in town so I couldn't stay too long. Anyway, I didn't mean anything bad by my statement.
Mike
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Originally Posted by rzograbian
i guess everyone was happy except Richard... and for a "for your information", when you lean out the AFR's, you make more power and could potentialy blow the motor.... thats why you made that much power at the first pull... but it was wayyyyy to lean to leave a safety margin... thats why he made less power because he added fuel.... if you knew about tuning/concept of the motor, you would have thought different.......
but anyway, i got to get some sleep... i got about 8 hours in 3 day's....... DAM! (and thats more than Steve got)
-Roman
but anyway, i got to get some sleep... i got about 8 hours in 3 day's....... DAM! (and thats more than Steve got
)-Roman
I can't really compare the before and afters - as I've said I did not get a printout of before and after, and my butt dyno tells me a slight improvement in midrange and a slight decrease in topend. I guess Chevron will tell me how my mileage is, haven't noticed much difference so far
My comments should have been - "There is not much benefit when your car is nearly perfectly tuned" - I had no idea I was so close in my tune, though. And had I not gone, I would not have known - so I'm not bitching, its good insurance..
Like I said, I'm just disappointed with my results, and the fact that I paid as much as anyone for the service just seems a little tough. I guess I was hoping there would be a huge mistake somewhere or something broken. I read about how its a night and day difference when Steve gets ahold of your car, I wanted to experience that - The dude whose car didnt run right and spent hours tuning got a much better deal, relatively speaking - I am just giving my honest impression of the time/money spent and relaying my thoughts and musings for the people that asked.
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Originally Posted by pluto
The first pull was on a different map than what you had so that you wouldn't see too much difference between the rest of the pull. The previous map you had was a stock PFC map from what I remembered (I have it saved in my laptop if its not a stock map), I guess if you want to compare the difference, you could easily reset the pfc and see how much different there was between the car. The reason why your first pull wasn't much different than the last pull was because I forgot to turn down the boost controller (pfc setting) when I loaded a different map in your pfc after checking with the rest of the settings along with adding more fuel to start out with(obviosly it was still a little lean), it was also set high (boost) and obviously shows that your boost pattern was oscillating so I had to retune everything from low boost and work my way up based on your car's characteristics. Eventually, the boost level you get at the last pull was something that has a smoother transition w/o any boost osciallation. I don't usually tune the originally map that was in the car unless I see that it was easier than tuning a map that I know was good to begin with. it doesn't make sense for me to spend 4-5 hrs per car to tune when I have a good template to start out with and only requires some tweaking here and there? Also, most places do their tuning in an hourly basis. They would wait 10-15mins per pull (which we did about 15pulls on your car), You would end up paying 3.5-4hrs at $200/hr for the work I did. If you don't believe me, you could ask Dcrosby how much he spend with XS for their services.
hehe I have seen enough results from XS to know I would pay you double for anything they said they could do =D .
Its just hard for me to compare without before and afters - I dont have a problem with anything that was done, just not knowing what was done. You said yourself the wideband was fouling out, and I still have no idea what boost level/af ratio I was tuned at.
No bad feelings though - I don't want to come across as the bitterman. Now that I know what to expect next dyno day won't be such a surprise.
Thanks a ton for making it out here for us though, Steve - heh most tuners won't touch a rotary, period!
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No problem, and thanks again for the work. I am happy with the results. On a side not, like the other guy was saying. I would have liked to have a before and after dyno sheet. But I do understand that you don't want to put it on the dyno without making changes, just in case something *BAD* happens.
But I wasn't there for all power either, you fixed a lot of little issues I have had with it for a while. Good luck with everything and I hope to meet you again in the future.
Mike
But I wasn't there for all power either, you fixed a lot of little issues I have had with it for a while. Good luck with everything and I hope to meet you again in the future.
Mike
Originally Posted by pluto
Hey Mike,
Microtech in general is pretty easy to tune. The only time it takes longer is when I go into the matrix mode where I have to fine tune each cell. Since you didn't have the wide range TPS, It was unneccessary to go into the matrix mode. I did make alot of changes before the first pull which ended up pretty close to my target tune. All I did after that was fine tune a few rpm points and was done with it. If it was on the street, your car would have been done in 30 mins.
Alot of time, you can't compare how long it takes for me to do a tune to someone else's tune. To give you an example, CCarlisi retune his setup months after I did his car since he upgraded a few things and needed to retune it. It took me 1hr to tune his car back then, and when he was tuning it himself, it took him 3 weeks and 10 tanks of gas to perform similar tune. I believed he ended up blowing the engine months later. Anyone can do what I do, the only difference is that I can do it faster and know how far to push before it crosses the reliability point.
Microtech in general is pretty easy to tune. The only time it takes longer is when I go into the matrix mode where I have to fine tune each cell. Since you didn't have the wide range TPS, It was unneccessary to go into the matrix mode. I did make alot of changes before the first pull which ended up pretty close to my target tune. All I did after that was fine tune a few rpm points and was done with it. If it was on the street, your car would have been done in 30 mins.
Alot of time, you can't compare how long it takes for me to do a tune to someone else's tune. To give you an example, CCarlisi retune his setup months after I did his car since he upgraded a few things and needed to retune it. It took me 1hr to tune his car back then, and when he was tuning it himself, it took him 3 weeks and 10 tanks of gas to perform similar tune. I believed he ended up blowing the engine months later. Anyone can do what I do, the only difference is that I can do it faster and know how far to push before it crosses the reliability point.
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NO hard feelings here. I know how you feel about not being able to compare before and after. For me, I usually do a compare on the map that you have to the default map that came with the PFC to see what was changed. If it wasn't worth my time to modify that map, I would just erase it and start all over again with a map that I now worked better for your application.
If you have datalogit, you could go look at the map that you have in your car, alot of things have changed. seq turbo transition hysterisis, remap the entire range in load points, smoother and more responsive driveability, throttle pump, boost settings, coolant fan turn on point, earlier timing retard based on air temp....etc... along with tuning a/f and timing map (optimized a/f and timing for your fuel octane rating and altitude condition)...
There're alot more that were changed than you would think with the amount of time I spent in your car.
Sometimes when problems occured, I have to step back and undo what I did to figure out where the problem was (which could take hrs as you can see from some of the cars that were having problems). The only time that I could do it fast is when the car is completely trouble free so you should consider yourself lucky that nothing was giving us problems.
I know how you feel about not being able to compare before and after. For me, I usually do a compare on the map that you have to the default map that came with the PFC to see what was changed. If it wasn't worth my time to modify that map, I would just erase it and start all over again with a map that I now worked better for your application. If you have datalogit, you could go look at the map that you have in your car, alot of things have changed. seq turbo transition hysterisis, remap the entire range in load points, smoother and more responsive driveability, throttle pump, boost settings, coolant fan turn on point, earlier timing retard based on air temp....etc... along with tuning a/f and timing map (optimized a/f and timing for your fuel octane rating and altitude condition)...
There're alot more that were changed than you would think with the amount of time I spent in your car.
Sometimes when problems occured, I have to step back and undo what I did to figure out where the problem was (which could take hrs as you can see from some of the cars that were having problems). The only time that I could do it fast is when the car is completely trouble free so you should consider yourself lucky that nothing was giving us problems.
Originally Posted by BicuspiD
hehe I have seen enough results from XS to know I would pay you double for anything they said they could do =D .
Its just hard for me to compare without before and afters - I dont have a problem with anything that was done, just not knowing what was done. You said yourself the wideband was fouling out, and I still have no idea what boost level/af ratio I was tuned at.
No bad feelings though - I don't want to come across as the bitterman. Now that I know what to expect next dyno day won't be such a surprise.
Thanks a ton for making it out here for us though, Steve - heh most tuners won't touch a rotary, period!
Its just hard for me to compare without before and afters - I dont have a problem with anything that was done, just not knowing what was done. You said yourself the wideband was fouling out, and I still have no idea what boost level/af ratio I was tuned at.
No bad feelings though - I don't want to come across as the bitterman. Now that I know what to expect next dyno day won't be such a surprise.
Thanks a ton for making it out here for us though, Steve - heh most tuners won't touch a rotary, period!
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yeah, you lucky bastard!! hehehe... anyway, i gotta get my car cosmetically ready first, then i'll go back to engine work.. (new wheels and stereo, and A/C!!!! i mean who drives around in GOLDEN SPOKED 1980 wheels on a FD?) Anyway, my car was about to blow (thanks to X/S didn't do anything for safety and just had the base map) but it was a good thing i didn't really get on it...
I mean steve made a huge difference for me, because.... well i just came from X/S. Period. (and blew 1300 on the PFC + commander + installation + THEM STEALING MY ******* WIRING HARNESS OF MY TWIN POWER.
I mean steve made a huge difference for me, because.... well i just came from X/S. Period. (and blew 1300 on the PFC + commander + installation + THEM STEALING MY ******* WIRING HARNESS OF MY TWIN POWER.
I know that I'll be ready for the NorCal tuning. I paid for a Sunday session that I never used(550.00 wasted). Tried to sell it, but I guess no luck. Motor not in on time, getting it this Thursday. RX-heaven I would like to get in on that tune session. If there is people from So cal going up, we can caravan up!
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Originally Posted by RedBaron7
I know that I'll be ready for the NorCal tuning. I paid for a Sunday session that I never used(550.00 wasted). Tried to sell it, but I guess no luck. Motor not in on time, getting it this Thursday. RX-heaven I would like to get in on that tune session. If there is people from So cal going up, we can caravan up!
Here we go again Steve.....
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I just wanted to post and say that Steve did an excellent job on my car. It runs better and smoother than ever as well as not running lean anymore.
Unfortunately I didn't get to put it on the dyno and see what HP numbers I was making because we were kicked out of the shop at 6pm on Thur. night. I did have fun though, with Steve in the passenger's seat street tuning my car at 100+ mph in some light traffic on the 210 fwy. Roman even said he saw 2 foot flames coming out of the exhaust lasting about 2 or 3 seconds when shifting from redline in 3rd gear to 4th gear.
Steve is a PIMP when it comes to tuning anything including my AEM EMS. I would gladly pay the same fees again to have an expert such as Steve tune my car.
Unfortunately I didn't get to put it on the dyno and see what HP numbers I was making because we were kicked out of the shop at 6pm on Thur. night. I did have fun though, with Steve in the passenger's seat street tuning my car at 100+ mph in some light traffic on the 210 fwy. Roman even said he saw 2 foot flames coming out of the exhaust lasting about 2 or 3 seconds when shifting from redline in 3rd gear to 4th gear.
Steve is a PIMP when it comes to tuning anything including my AEM EMS. I would gladly pay the same fees again to have an expert such as Steve tune my car.
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Hey smog, I got your spot...thanks And I had a Microtec and Steve did a good job with it. I am happy with the work he did. Be sure to bring your laptop plug with you with you go.
And I had a Microtec and Steve did a good job with it. I am happy with the work he did. Be sure to bring your laptop plug with you with you go.
Originally Posted by SmogSUX
Did anyone have a microtech? I think I can get in on the next norcal tune.