Got my EcuTek reflash from Drift Office
 

So I made a trip down south to see Bob @ Drift-Office (Drift-Office) on the forums.

My car was put on the dyno, and off we went.

After everything was done, I was on my way. Let's just say I had a grin from cheek to cheek on my way home. The car really opens up after 4000 RPM.

Significant gains, considering the car is bone stock except for an AVO drop in filter.

Although not making as much hp/tq as other cars, we believe the factors were my super heavy steelies, plus not sure if the 94/92 octane mix would affect anything. My base run netted lower numbers then other stock FRS's. So it has to be the wheels, or something else is not right with my car :P. We will be testing again in the Spring when the stock wheels go back on.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ps317f15a9.jpg

I'd like to give a big thanks to Bob and the crew @ Drift-Office. It was also nice to meet Paul from AVO Turboworld.

Will see how the car feels once the stock wheels go back on, plus having a full tank of 94.

Nice... Personal tune is always better then off the shelf tune.

Very nice. If you don't mind me asking, what did you pay? Received my first ever tune in the fall when I got my car from John Visconti and I"m curious to see if all tunes are priced pretty much the same.
Thx.

For more information on our calibrations / tunes :

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25716

Indeed, I've always been a fan of ON-SITE dyno tuning as opposed to E-Tunes. So many more variables to consider, and this last weekend when Truenosan and 4 others came by, no two were 100% alike. Throw in an intake with odd ball scaling and you'll be on the dyno for quite some time. :)

Is it the price that you're interested in or the gains that you're getting? Or is a tune just a tune to you? :)

Regards!


Bob @ Drift-Office, LLC

Dyno chart posted. :thumbup:

Not necessarily all about the tune at all. Noticed OP was from Canada, like myself and hadn't come across any tuners north of the border. Curious I guess you could say. Totally happy with mr. Visconti's tune here.

Cool, there are places for e-Tunes esp in your case, but given differences in environments and fuel considerations, and especially since 92 Octane isn't the same everywhere, I prefer the in-house dyno tuning approach. I don't use a one size fits all cookie cutter calibration since there isn't such a thing IMHO.

Admittedly, it's not as critical in a NA environment, but in a turbo situation, I wouldn't do a e-Tune for sure...

And without a dyno baseline to quantify the work, it's hard to make any gains really tangible. As far as price goes, my work includes up to an hour of dyno time to flash and tweak, not some one time flash off the shelf map. The OPs car took us 45 minutes with 4 flashes to optimize the calibration. :)

My 2 Cents!


Bob @ Drift-Office, LLC

Don't get hung up on how the baseline compares to other baselines, there's a million factors that will give you a different result. As long as the dyno setup is the same between runs for your car it'll be consistent for you and that's all that matters.