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Old 04-06-2013, 06:47 PM   #1
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Thumbs down Visconti Tuning

Review has been edited to my final review of my experience with Visconti Tuning


I have ALWAYS considered the Tune the MOST important part of seriously making power and modifying your car. It will play a HUGE part in wether you blow it in pieces, have a nice drive and wether all the money spent will actually produce what it should.


Having said that, I RUSHED Paul @ AVO to get me a kit in order to have Visconti tune it ASAP. Initially Paul was kind enough to try and send me some tunes to get me running even though he did not have the calibration for the SIR 500cc Injectors. As far as JV I had already contacted him and wanted to run his tune on my car. I knew from the start I was going to have to wait a bit but was fine with it.

The first 3-4 logs where wasted because of ongoing issues with the Fuel Pump. John started e-tuning my car with mixed results. Sometimes I got a file that felt good, but popped an CEL for Rich (some other times for Lean). Not a big deal or deal breaker, but worried me a bit considering how high in my priorities list is having a PROPER TUNE.

As time passed and I continued doing logs for John to tweak my file in anticipation for a final Dyno Day, I grew impatient. I kept receiving logs with little to no improvement. Sometimes the logs came out worse than before and worse the before last. The car hesitated to go, logs showed a good amount of knock values, AFR was pig rich. Again, all of this was done with the hope of a Dyno Day to finalize a safe, PROPER Tune.

In total, I flashed 16 E-tune files before getting on a Dyno.

Here are the last four E-tunes Logs Knock Correction values:









I contacted John letting him know that I needed this car dyno tuned already, that it had been 2 and a half months of playing Russian Roulette with the most important part of the modification process. The response I got was a vague approximate date that was never met, even though I waited almost double the timeframe given before moving on.

The Last Straw:

The last straw happened when I was cruising one day, heard something strange, turned off radio and A/C just to notice that my car was LOUDLY knocking at cruising speeds. I literally feared damaging my engine with these tunes, I stopped using the car. If it weren't for the fact that I DONT Daily Drive my car, I would have lost it... That day I had it. I realized how stupid it was for me to keep waiting.

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Old 08-15-2013, 06:07 PM   #2
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Seems like there has been a change of heart?
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Seems like there has been a change of heart?
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Old 08-15-2013, 06:39 PM   #4
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@Sportsguy83 did a pretty thorough writeup/review on why he had a change of heart, including datalogs.
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Old 08-16-2013, 08:37 AM   #5
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@Sportsguy83 did a pretty thorough writeup/review on why he had a change of heart, including datalogs.
Yes guys. My bad for not updating this thread.

I have now updated it with the copy of what happened in my Turbo thread.

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This thread should be deleted imo.
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Old 08-16-2013, 11:43 AM   #7
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This thread should be deleted imo.
I disagree, now that it's been updated. It's a vendor review. If you've been in the aftermarket game a long time, you'll know that it's very easy to fall in love initially with a new "toy". I think this thread is noteworthy because it's one of the few available that is purely honest. It shows the evolution of the relationship between vendor and the customer from the honeymoon phase until the end, and instead of just posting random hate and opinions, it actually has factual data allowing those viewing it to come to their OWN opinions.
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Who's tune did you end up with?
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Who's tune did you end up with?
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Old 09-02-2013, 12:28 AM   #11
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wait....

i never knew about this thread
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i contacted visconti, asked him when i could get on the dyno, he told me when, i showed up on that day and got tuned. sorry to hear you had issues
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i contacted visconti, asked him when i could get on the dyno, he told me when, i showed up on that day and got tuned. sorry to hear you had issues
Thats good man. Obviously there are people who have had great experiences and some that have had awful experiences. I am one of the lucky ones who had a really bad one.

I'm extremely happy for you that you had a good experience.

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Thats good man. Obviously there are people who have had great experiences and some that have had awful experiences. I am one of the lucky ones who had a really bad one.

I'm extremely happy for you that you had a good experience.

im also happy....that I ditch him before the big boom
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