Originally Posted by
Sneakin Deacon
my attitude to his dilemma is not ignorane. it is annoyance. people bitch and moan about their fucking tunes, and their tuners, and anything that goes wrong with the car must be their faults. a competant tuner will do what you want them to do within their ability.
I dont know the conversation that took place between himself and the tuner, but im guessing it was pretty funny for atleast one party involved. You want to push the limits of stock shit, this is what happens. You want to blow nothing but hot air from a turbo your running so inefficiently, be my guest. But for fuck sake, when shit goes wrong, don't look any further then the closest mirror. I know im being a dick right now, but seriously, there is no one to blame other than yourself. If your that coy thatyou'd let him turn you away with the vacuum line remark and pursue it no further and not emphasize to him that things were not up to par then yet again, your coyishness took the better of you.
you may call me whatever you like, cause everyone else does. I have no compassion towards most peoples situations that they have ultimately brought upon themselves. hence i have no compassion here. detonation was heard repeatedly, a call was made, and it was left at that. if this tuner was so incompetant, why wasn't another contacted? like i said, you may look no further then the closest mirror.
I really don't care to argue, but, I went up to Atlanta because he was supposed to be a really good tuner. I got there, with nothing but pump gas in the car. The car made awesome numbers on pump gas, and that's what I wanted, a pump gas tune. After he made the 93 map he asked me if he could throw C16 in there to see what he could make on C16/93 Mix. I said sure, that doesn't bother me at all, seeing as its free C16 on the way back to Florida. He was supposed to change the map back to the 93 after he was done with the road tune. It was HIS FAULT THAT HE DIDN'T CHANGE THE MAPS BACK, NOT MINE.
A little while after the tune, I could feel the car pulling timing at 5500rpm(peak hp). I contacted him about this and was told to check my vac lines. I checked my vac lines and everything looked fine. Some days it didn't feel like it was pulling timing at all, some days it would.
Eventually, I pulled the plugs and discovered aluminum dust on the plugs, especially bad on the #3 plug. Since you're so adept, I'm sure you know what this means. I changed the plugs with 1 step colder NGK's and the problem seemed to have been resolved. I drove the car around with no hinting of knocking for weeks.
Finally, it started happening again, the car would just die up top at 5500rpm. I pulled the #3 plug again and found the same thing. At this point I said enough was enough and got retuned by a shop in North Florida.
This is where we found Dougs mistakes.
12.5 : 1 AFR at peak torque.
I don't need to call you names, that's not my style. But, I would like it if you didn't come in here and bash me like I have no idea what I'm talking about, thanks.