| mav1178 |
05-09-2017 12:47 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Calum
(Post 2907117)
The nearest tuner I'd take this car to is a 15 hour drive away. If I can get 95% of the performance from a remote tune I'd happily take that. The remote tune means I don't have to take days off work, pay for a hotel and a tow vehicle & trailer. That extra $500 for the tune would likely be an extra $1500 by the time everything was said and done.
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For someone like you, yes it works fine.
I'm mostly talking about those living within walking distance of a tuner in a major metropolitan area.
I grew up here in Southern California, and I can probably fill an entire baseball stadium of people I've dealt with in the last 25 years that are "too cheap to pay for a tune" and yet have no problem dropping thousands of dollars on their mods.
It started back when guys were modding cars with reflashed JWT ECUs on their Nissans. $600 for too expensive for what they wanted, so they just did basic resistor mods. Then the Power FC came out and was wildly popular for the SR20DET swap, guys would buy the $1000 unit and not pay money for a tune, yet have no problem copying someone else's map off the dot matrix display. Then you have AEM, and subsequent "easier" engine management programs to use...
But it's 2017, we all do stuff on computers now...
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