Austin

[username_taken]

Originally Posted by Turkish

Boo on the no baseline!

On a sadder note, my brz is going in for two warranty issues (granted one is solvable with an engine tune) after I'm back in town. First is my transmission has the 5th synchro issue and SoA has approved a new tranny (why I held off on putting my motul oil in it when I did the rear differential). The other started yesterday on my road trip and now does it all the time... Rpm hunting at idle.... that one made me curse the elder gods.

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what motul oils did you end up getting? Mine is due for 7500 oil change so I might do the tranny etc at the same time.

[username_taken]

Originally Posted by trevorovert

spicewood springs and 183, valero. visually verified.

cool. I wonder if the texas heat would cause any issues with our cars running e85 ( hypothetically of course, because we wouldn't have aftermarket flashes or use unsupported fuel mixes in our cars... amirite? )

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by Turkish

Oh that's nice. Did you do a baseline dyno? I like how he is focusing on specific areas of the powerband to maximize everywhere.

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Thanks! The difference is I daily drive these cars. My girlfriend has one and it gets all of the "testing" done on it. And I have a number of track junkies testing stuff for me weekly. I literally booked 20 hours of dyno time for my own vehicle next month. I care a lot more about power at every RPM and having a usable optimal tune than breaking records and getting that high WHP number on the chart. I was originally building my car to enjoy at the track and average power is far more important than bragging rights on a dyno. I don't do this full time, I don't do it for a living it has just been a hobby for 8 or 9 years. Recently a number of people offered to donate to helping me get my car running in exchange for tuning. I was tuning for free anyway and well... I'm broke, im not going to say no. LOL!

I've actually e-tuned a number of people I just don't talk about it much as my friend got banned on the forums for tuning cars without a vendor account. And as I am not doing it for a source of income at this time I just keep quiet and have offered to help out random individuals when I see issues. Many have seen me post in misc tuning threads just tossing in what I know and trying to just genially give a helping hand.

After the car runs I may start tuning more as a LOT of locals have been pestering me for tunes but I simply dont have the time and honestly I make more at my day job than I would if I was tuning full time but its more enjoyable than my day job. .

Thanks for the kind words @FR-S Matt, I'm glad I could help you out! And just to be clear I offered to help Matt out for free, I never asked for money and he just offered to help me out in return. I know he had problems with a commonly used tuner in the past and I know how he felt and just wanted to help make his week a little better so he could enjoy his car.

[nelsmar]

P.S. Fuck your 93 octane. I haven't done much tuning on 93 octane in YEAARRSSS and holy hell... There really is a fair difference -.- most the people I tune are in CA / AZ and we are all stuck on this crap 91 fuel!

[86-tundra]

whoa. I came into this thread, saw nelsmar's post, and thought "I must have clicked the wrong region..."

[86-tundra]

okay @nelsmar I gotta ask what you do... we share many of the same hobbies apparently.. and you know a thing a two about programming. It's bugging me.

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by trevorovert

whoa. I came into this thread, saw nelsmar's post, and thought "I must have clicked the wrong region..."

lol!

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by trevorovert

okay @nelsmar I gotta ask what you do... we share many of the same hobbies apparently.. and you know a thing a two about programming. It's bugging me.

Software engineer. Primarily web focused but I spread pretty far. Lately I have been the lead developer on a "cloud based" router firmware & lead on the API for management of said routers. (Yes I hate the fucking cloud catch phrase -.-). I code in pretty much everything that isn't windows desktop oriented. I haven't done much of that in years.

[86-tundra]

Originally Posted by nelsmar

Software engineer. Primarily web focused but I spread pretty far. Lately I have been the lead developer on a "cloud based" router firmware & lead on the API for management of said routers. (Yes I hate the fucking cloud catch phrase -.-). I code in pretty much everything that isn't windows desktop oriented. I haven't done much of that in years.

Oh yea? I used to be in web dev. I love lamp. (yes that is a corny joke) did a lot of php work, still do it for fun sometimes.

so basically everything not .net / basic? Man those languages suck big time. I remember interviewing for a job out here in austin as a microsoft .net consultant and am seriously glad I didn't get into it.

right now I'm working a lot with a stats program called R, doubt you've heard of it but maybe. It's bigger in the statistics world. using it for predictive analytics. Pretty interesting stuff, but the R language is syntactically awful. It is a statistician's dream language, but a programmer's nightmare. No variable definitions (well I guess php can be like that.. ), assignment operator is <- , lacks solid OOP foundation. Just can't stand it. it is so far from c, c++, php, java, etc..

sounds like you work for a small(er) company though. As much as I like development I'm moving away from it and more into an analyst role as india and mexico have taken most of our development work away

-I edited this post like 5 times for spelling mistakes. I think it's time to go to bed.

[FR-S Matt]

Originally Posted by username_taken

cool. I wonder if the texas heat would cause any issues with our cars running e85 ( hypothetically of course, because we wouldn't have aftermarket flashes or use unsupported fuel mixes in our cars... amirite? )

e85 actually runs a lot cooler than 93 octane from what I learned. Boosting a car during a Texas summer is a whole another story.

[Scottemad123]

Originally Posted by trevorovert

Oh yea? I used to be in web dev. I love lamp. (yes that is a corny joke) did a lot of php work, still do it for fun sometimes.

so basically everything not .net / basic? Man those languages suck big time. I remember interviewing for a job out here in austin as a microsoft .net consultant and am seriously glad I didn't get into it.

right now I'm working a lot with a stats program called R, doubt you've heard of it but maybe. It's bigger in the statistics world. using it for predictive analytics. Pretty interesting stuff, but the R language is syntactically awful. It is a statistician's dream language, but a programmer's nightmare. No variable definitions (well I guess php can be like that.. ), assignment operator is <- , lacks solid OOP foundation. Just can't stand it. it is so far from c, c++, php, java, etc..

sounds like you work for a small(er) company though. As much as I like development I'm moving away from it and more into an analyst role as india and mexico have taken most of our development work away

-I edited this post like 5 times for spelling mistakes. I think it's time to go to bed.

Well if you end up looking around again we are hiring integration engineers...

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by trevorovert

Oh yea? I used to be in web dev. I love lamp. (yes that is a corny joke) did a lot of php work, still do it for fun sometimes.

so basically everything not .net / basic? Man those languages suck big time. I remember interviewing for a job out here in austin as a microsoft .net consultant and am seriously glad I didn't get into it.

right now I'm working a lot with a stats program called R, doubt you've heard of it but maybe. It's bigger in the statistics world. using it for predictive analytics. Pretty interesting stuff, but the R language is syntactically awful. It is a statistician's dream language, but a programmer's nightmare. No variable definitions (well I guess php can be like that.. ), assignment operator is <- , lacks solid OOP foundation. Just can't stand it. it is so far from c, c++, php, java, etc..

sounds like you work for a small(er) company though. As much as I like development I'm moving away from it and more into an analyst role as india and mexico have taken most of our development work away

-I edited this post like 5 times for spelling mistakes. I think it's time to go to bed.

I mean don't get me wrong I do like C# and I liked it when it came out. I just don't really use windows, nor do any of the systems I work on run it so its just way out in left field for me. I write quite a bit of PHP but it is a far from scripting I write extremely heavy PHP. I was recently looking to hire a JR dev and all of the PHP applications got up and walked out after seeing the code. I had a java dev sit down and basically ask when he could start. LOL

And yup I work for a smaller company. It was VOIP based but now we are primarily a router company directed towards voip companies. We make "Specialty" managed routers, among other products. We have a number of sub companies so I get tossed around on projects a LOT. In a given week I write at least 10 different languages and work on more operating systems than I want to think about. My speciality is reverse engineering & "hacking" code (no not like the movies for those of you that don't code). So ECU stuff was always up my alley in terms of trying to diagnose issues.

<3 lamp.

[86-tundra]

Originally Posted by nelsmar

I mean don't get me wrong I do like C# and I liked it when it came out. I just don't really use windows, nor do any of the systems I work on run it so its just way out in left field for me. I write quite a bit of PHP but it is a far from scripting I write extremely heavy PHP. I was recently looking to hire a JR dev and all of the PHP applications got up and walked out after seeing the code. I had a java dev sit down and basically ask when he could start. LOL

And yup I work for a smaller company. It was VOIP based but now we are primarily a router company directed towards voip companies. We make "Specialty" managed routers, among other products. We have a number of sub companies so I get tossed around on projects a LOT. In a given week I write at least 10 different languages and work on more operating systems than I want to think about. My speciality is reverse engineering & "hacking" code (no not like the movies for those of you that don't code). So ECU stuff was always up my alley in terms of trying to diagnose issues.

<3 lamp.

see, I need to learn how to bridge the gap like you did. between programming and ecu stuff.

I'm assuming you write your php from scratch? I'm more of a framework guy (laravel / code igniter, etc.) I would probably walk out too if I saw a bunch of homebrew php

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by trevorovert

see, I need to learn how to bridge the gap like you did. between programming and ecu stuff.

I'm assuming you write your php from scratch? I'm more of a framework guy (laravel / code igniter, etc.) I would probably walk out too if I saw a bunch of homebrew php

Depends on the project. One of our main projects I moved us to symfony. I have also designed a number of frame works (not 5 minute jobs but large code base) in the past. The last company I was at I designed 90+% of their framework they used on a good 100 projects or so. I don't write raw PHP I write a framework and then use it to develop as my projects are too large for quick hacked PHP. And lately I am tired of managing my own code base and started working with other frameworks.