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Originally Posted by seven
No offense taken man, I know you (and many many others) are just exploring options.
Yeah, unless you go to a mod-friendly dealer you're SOL.
However Drift-Factory (which is local to me) does tuning... And more importantly the dealer I deal with (specifically the service adviser) is mod-friendly. So I personally won't have issues, others might not be so lucky, but I understand it's the nature of the business of modifying a car (hence why I asked about the dealer first, sought out a local tuner, etc) - Hopefully others do their due diligence before buying also.
But yeah, $225 keeps it cheap for sure... it does have its limitations like you said.
In a perfect world, something like HPTuners for GM vehicles would exist for this car... You buy a cable and software for $600ish and it comes with so many "credits" to license that cable you have to ECUs (usually its 2 credits per ECU unless its a super new motor) and you can tune 2-3 cars off the bat right from the factory sensors/ECU.
The closest solution to this right now is open source stuff in development. ECUtek allows you to do it as well but its almost double the price.
A slap-dash way of doing it, is getting an ECUTek tune for the basics for $225 (honestly you could probably have them just turn off the rear O2 and apply the idle fix and that's call, and the dealer might never know), and then using the UNICHIP kit for $450 to tune it.
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Yea I love hptuners (had it for my fbody, tuned a few other cars with it).
If you plan on going that route, see if they can strike some type of deal so taht if new features are added (which looks to be the case a lot lately) or if you add new parts, that either you can get a discount, or they can just charge you a set price now to receive free updates.