[Malt]

Originally Posted by nwolsky

Hello all,
I have spent the last few days perusing the site and am trying to figure out this whole tuning universe. I came from a F150, and before that, a VW Passat. Tuning in the VW world was pick one of 3 main companies, send them your ECU, the send it back, you plug it in, and boom, 50 more HP (they were turbo'd engines). It does not seem like that here, and looks like I have to modify everything on my own? I have seen ECUtek and am confused by them and if they sell the kit to tune the car, or a prebuilt tune. I know how novice I sound here, but I am not novice in the car world at all. Have rebuilt engines, swapped engines, ext, but I am at a loss with this tune. I would appreciate not being yelled at for not doing enough research, and yes I have read the tune faq sticky.

So my questions....
-What do I need for a tune
-How can I keep by warranty (seems like I can't just flash it)
-How much am I looking at
-What gains can be expected (assuming both stock and adding exhaust/intake and maybe headers)

Thanks all
Nate

You said you've read the tune faq sticky, yet every single one of those questions is answered in it.