VE SS manual, 475HP Dyno sheet. 40HP increase from bad tune.

[Jimbosa]

Hey guys just got my car back from getting dyno tuned at Tuned By Luke in Ipswich and I am over the moon with the tune and just wanted to share my experience with the car.
It recently got cammed, and the cam job seems good but the tune that they did on it was horrendous, had a lot of issues including excessive ghost, insanely rich and terrible drivability at low speeds. It was also making 434HP when the cam advertised at least 460HP. They blamed the headers as they are used to xforce but I opted for REX triple step headers, they even said they where too free flowing and didnt have enough back pressure obviously this is rediculous and these guys are confusing exhaust velocity for back pressure. But regardless the tune just needed the time spent on it to get the performance to its potential. You can see the before and after runs on the sheet from when Luke got the car to when he was finished tuning it.

Heres the build:
L77 with cathedral port heads, not ported or decked heads or anything.
VCM OTR
REX tripple step headers with 100 cell cats
Hurricane 3 inch catback
High torque performance HTP02 cam 233/233, 598/598, 113 LSA
NPC heavy duty clutch
Truetrac 3.7 diff

 

[losh1971]

Is this the same car that was asked about a few weeks ago? Glad to hear its going well now, after a decent tune.

The shop that tuned my bus before I bought it botched the tune also. This was a tuning garage in Melbourne that used to get TV time on Mate. I took it to a bloke who is a top tuner locally and he made me more power, while making it drive heaps better, with the only pig at about 1400 revs. Before it would pig from 1200 right up to about 1800/1900.

What's quite funny to hear is them praising X-Force. The only people who I know who say they love their products is those who have bought them and think they have done ok, without having trialled something of quality.

 

[Jimbosa]

Is this the same car that was asked about a few weeks ago? Glad to hear its going well now, after a decent tune.

The shop that tuned my bus before I bought it botched the tune also. This was a tuning garage in Melbourne that used to get TV time on Mate. I took it to a bloke who is a top tuner locally and he made me more power, while making it drive heaps better, with the only pig at about 1400 revs. Before it would pig from 1200 right up to about 1800/1900.

What's quite funny to hear is them praising X-Force. The only people who I know who say they love their products is those who have bought them and think they have done ok, without having trialled something of quality.

Yeah would be man and yeah super happy it's finally running well now after months and months of issues.
And yeah xforce is fine for the money but definently the cheapest I would consider going.
Amazing what a good tune can do.