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Mace Mail Order Tune not running properly

Fertiliser69

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i received a phone call from them an hour or so ago now and they have asked me to ship it back to with with a list with everything that is working properly and they will return it and **** it back. from how they spoke about it sounded like they are using someone separate from mace and getting them to tune and calibrate the ecu and then selling it through the mace website as i was told to write down what is wrong with it on a piece of paper and ship that in the package with the ecu. quite confused about the whole situation
 

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Over a 3 month period at the start of last year it took until my 3rd memcal for my car to even run when I bought a cam package from them. Steve was having personal issues and was cutting back time at work and clearly getting backlogged and overworked while he was there. The current tune isn't great after all that but I gave up.
They need to stop offering it if the don't have the competent staff to do the job.
Would never get a tune through them again.
And 98 doing anything drastic at idle is bs as stated above.


i was told to write down what is wrong with it on a piece of paper and ship that in the package with the ecu. \
This is how they do it.
 

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Can you write it didn’t make 500hp?
But I would ask for a refund and find a shop to tune it.
Anything mail order is, IMO, trouble.:p
 

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ACE Performance is still doing top work!

Joe is a wizard, even without seeing the car if you tell him all your specs he can get something pretty damn close.

If it wasn't for the fact I'm now geared up to do tunes myself I'd have got his for my latest cam.

He did the tune for my old Crane 268 back in the day and it was spot on even without ever seeing the car.

That being said, tuning the car in person will always get far better results.
 
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I'm actually hearing Mace are no longer supplying reliable memcal tunes either. My memcal from mace was pretty close to spot on. But that was a few years ago now.
 

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The 268 is fairly common so as long as he's tuned something with it he could do a mail order tune that would be real close and that is what most mail order tunes are. For something that is MAF based as long as the original MAF is used there isn't a huge amount to do with the fuel side, it's more the timing and things like shift points and lines pressures etc.

The fact it will barely run makes me think there is a fundamental issue like using the wrong file and the write didn't happen correctly and something is corrupted.
 

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The fact it will barely run makes me think there is a fundamental issue like using the wrong file and the write didn't happen correctly and something is corrupted.

Agreed, I had a corrupt upload to my NVRAM the other day and cos I had the volume muted on my laptop I didn't hear the error, went to start teh car and it coughed, backfired and died.

Reuploaded again, worked fine.
 
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