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Originally Posted by cruzinbill
I understand you guys want to do stuff on your own, but is it really that much of a deal breaker to just get it tuned by someone else? your gonna pay nearly the same on dyno time alone that you would on a map. Now if you have access to a dyno, then you can still do remote tuning. Either way its not a huge deal when you really break it down.
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Originally Posted by The Slow One
I'm actually hoping that Ecutek would let us have the ability to tune our own cars as well. I track my car often and a lot of times there isn't internet access or signal strong enough for me to do remote tuning with my tuner, or if my tuner doesn't have the time to help me out while I'm at the track logging data, and so forth.
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In short, I don't like relying on other people to be accountable for something I could do myself. Other people, just like me or you or anyone, have lives... They can't (always) be bothered at 2am on a random Tuesday night because I ran into a pocket on the tune or a boost issue, etc etc (Some examples below of what I mean with not relying on others)
I also like the idea of optimizing tunes for a climate. For example, AVOs turbo tune is safe completely at 6000 ft above sea level, which is awesome... you can drive the car cross country without issues on their tune, however for that you sacrifice some timing/fueling (ie power). I'm never going to be more than 1000 ft above sea level. If I leave the Seattle area (ever), it's on a plane as the only place I'd visit is family on the east coast (so I'm not driving there) or to go on vacation out of the state (not driving there either as a vacation in Idaho isn't my idea of fun)... So I'd like to be able to optimize my tune for the Seattle area (and furthurmore, E85) and therefore make some more power.
Not to mention I want to be able to make changes on the fly when I inevitably throw in larger injectors and a pump right away, so I don't run pig rich for a week (and wash out my cylinders) while I wait for a tune.