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Originally Posted by adamc11
Hi Brad.. yes the tune was well worth the money... car goes much better... i think i'll be looking at a cam package next, i'm rather liking the power the LS1's have. Will my pacemaker tri-y's be ok for a big cam?
Anyway, following up cpbait's post... do you lock the tune so it cannot be modified and all settings viewed? If you go to get a proper LS1 edit down the track, how does that work? Does the person tuning it have to reset it to stock then tune it to their specs? Is that why you charge $170 if it is locked?
I was speaking to my uncle about the tune... he has an LS1 auto wagon and may consider a tune. He wanted to know how it worked (i'm curious too)... Do you have a whole range of tunes that you have done to cars with various specs and saved them for future use? So say for my situation, you have tuned a car with an OTR and 2.5" twin system with pacemaker tri-y's, saved that tune then used it for my mail order tune?
Also, did you re-calibrate my average fuel readings or have they been untouched? Will post back here with fuel consumption figures in a few days for those interested.
Thanks.
To be completly honest throw the try-why's in the bin, a good tune will increase bottom end power over what try-why's claim to give. 1 3/4's 4 into 1's are normally the best if planning on future modifications.
Many guys travel from interstate for a camshaft package as we are roughly only 7 hours away from Melbourne or 1 tank of fuel.
Many companies will lock the tune, i for one do. As ive spent far to many hours just to give up valuable information at the drop of a hat. In actual fact even the PCM is locked from factory, its just that our software can unlock the generic password protected codes.
If you decide to get the car retuned, simply send back the PCM and i will remove the tune, and reinstall a factory tune that will be only factory password protected.
At the end of the day, if the tuner that you take your car to, wants the tune to be unlocked and just tweaked, then obviously he hasnt done his job correctly before even attempting to tune your vehicle. There is tuners and then there's tuners, so what are you really paying for.
As for the tunes that get burnt in to a mailorder, these tunes are designed by myself, and tested and tested before i released a mailorder tune to the public, basically every car that i custom tune starts of as a mailoder and then gets tweaked to suit that individual combination. What 1 tune will work in one car wont produce power figures of the same in another car.
As for fuel guage calibrations, no i didnt make any adjustments, its just the factory tune, is extreamly rich as a basis and then closed loope fuel control is used on top to get decent fuel economy from factory. This is probably the easiest way i can say it, the VT LS1, came out producing this much power, and economy was this much, the VZ came out of the factory with that much power and better economy but still has basically the same engine. Even the HSV range has the itentical driveline but produces more power and better economy.
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