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Old Sep 29, 2008 | 06:22 PM
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Thumbs down CFT tuning

I know CFT is in the Orlando area but alot of people still go there. Anyways here is my story. So I decided to go up there just to get a fuel pressure guage I needed. I'm talking to the guy and he seems to know his stuff so he convenses me to let them tune it. I am on AEM EMS and they have their little AEM certified stuff hanging on the walls. So we pull the car on the dyno and Omar, one of the tuners hops in the car and starts working on it. Well it was late in the day and Omar did what he could on a short time frame and got the car at least running better. So he tells me to come back a couple days later and HE will take care of things. So we set up an appointment for that Saturday. Anyways I show up Saturday ON TIME and haveto wait around 2 HOURS for them to get to me. Omar was sitting in an Evo working on it so I walk up to him and start talking to him, he then procedes to tell me that he cant do it that day because he has other things he has to do (REMEMBER I MADE AN APPOINTMENT). I live about half an hour from CFT and its not a fun drive in a half tuned car. So anyways then another one of their tuners who I actually never caught his name (some big fat ass) says he is gonna tune it. So me not knowing either of them that great just assuming he knows what he i doing lets him. He works on it a little bit, manifold and turbo turn cherry red on the dyno and the dip stick keeps blowing out. So I take him to the side and tell him this is my DD, I'm not looking for crazy power just want it to be tuned conservatively, yet still be fun. He hops in the car again and works some more, then he would take a break and be gone for half an hour, work for 20 minutes, gone for half an hour. This continues for a while then he tells me that he is don, yet the car was still making shitty power, etc etc etc. So some guy pulls up with a Miata and he tells me we have to take my car off the dyno because the Miata has to go on. So I'm like whoaaaa I paid for a full tune, this is a half ass tune. He BSes his way through stuff so I'm pissed at this point and so I figure I'll drive the car and see how it drives. Everytime I came to a stop the car stalls, it didnt wanna stay running at idle, had NO power down low (Im only running a T28 I should have all the power in the world down low). So at this point I go back and they just BS me so I leave pissed off and will never go back. I actually had to take the shit dyno tune they did, erase it, pull my 880's out and throw my stock 370's back in and tune it myself. I know nothing about tuning and the car runs better on my tune and has a better A/F ratio than their "professional" tune. Yea so CFT is a no no for tuning.
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