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Originally Posted by Lakitu
1. You should still take your car to a tune shop after you buy and flash an off-the-shelf tune after installing a kit
2. You can skip buying an off the shelf and go directly to a shop for the tune (you'd have to tow the car there, I'm assuming)
3. Companies like Delicious and Xero Limit are makers of a generic tune map that's not very specific to your car & mods, but good enough to get you to a shop to fine tune it further
4. ECUtek is a device to flash the ECU with a tune map (basically a more fancy OpenFlashTablet)
5. Shops make their own maps in real time specific to your car and use their own ECUtek license, so buying your own is optional if you can get the car to the shop somehow
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1: OTS is for stock to near stock cars is the only acceptable use of an OTS tune. After that there are too many variables, particularly with FI.
2: Only if it is a shop that has done many 86's in the past. Otherwise you'll be paying quite a bit for dyno time just for them to figure out the platform.
3: We historically have not done OTS tunes. We send a base tune first, then the customer sends datalogs and we fine tune
each car. Sometimes we nail it the first time, but that's pretty rare as there is usually something to be gained through fine tuning.
4: EcuTek has a staff of engineers behind their product. The reason it costs more is due to the more advanced equipment (check out the bluetooth app/dashes you can set up), real customer support, and far more advanced mapping.
5: Shops use their own hardware typically, unless you go to a master tuner who also retails hardware.