Newbie Tune help - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

eguzman6 · 11-12-2014, 03:52 PM

Hi all,

I am fairly new to this forum and hope I place this in the right spot. I bought a 2013 FRS 10 series 3-4 months ago and have done minor modifications. I have added the following:

EL Tomei Headers
Borla Catback exhaust
TRD Intake

I was planning to get a tune to get some extra power but want to know if anyone has any good or bad points to doing a NA Tune. A local tuner will charge me $750, they use Ecutek but the price includes tune and license (no cable). And Delicious Tuning is around $900. I will be running 93 octane at all times, it is my DD no need for E85. I want to do FI eventually but at the moment I want to pay the car off and go from there.

The major question is it worth the $700+ to gain maybe 10-20hp? both tuners state different numbers

Tcoat · 11-12-2014, 04:11 PM

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Garrett@Openflash · 11-13-2014, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eguzman6

Hi all,

I am fairly new to this forum and hope I place this in the right spot. I bought a 2013 FRS 10 series 3-4 months ago and have done minor modifications. I have added the following:

EL Tomei Headers
Borla Catback exhaust
TRD Intake

I was planning to get a tune to get some extra power but want to know if anyone has any good or bad points to doing a NA Tune. A local tuner will charge me $750, they use Ecutek but the price includes tune and license (no cable). And Delicious Tuning is around $900. I will be running 93 octane at all times, it is my DD no need for E85. I want to do FI eventually but at the moment I want to pay the car off and go from there.

The major question is it worth the $700+ to gain maybe 10-20hp? both tuners state different numbers

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tennisfreak · 11-13-2014, 03:19 PM

If you want to get the most out of a tune (especially since this will be all you are doing until you pay the car off) go with a local tune that is done off a dyno.

As long as the tuner is reputable and knows what they are doing the tune should be safe and it will get you more hp than a shelf/free tune that is obtained off the internet.

I've seen instances of non dyno tunes that ended up showing only 5hp gained when they took it to a dyno.

eguzman6 · 11-13-2014, 11:11 PM

@tennisfreak it is a good tuning shop. They work with TC's as well as FRS/BRZ they have a good turbo kit but it's a good amount of money. Do you think I should get any other bolt ons before I do a tune to get more out of it. Such as front/over pipe?

tennisfreak · 11-14-2014, 04:19 PM

Depends on how loud you want it to be. Doing the fp/op will get you a few more hp maybe but it will also make your car even louder that its going to be with that header and catback you bought.

I'd say that even without a fp/op a good tuner should be able to get you over 20hp bump from stock.

eguzman6 · 11-14-2014, 05:55 PM

You might be right about that. It's Pretty loud as it is now.

11-12-2014, 03:52 PM	#1
eguzman6 Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Drives: FRS 10 Series Location: Virginia Posts: 98 Thanks: 15 Thanked 13 Times in 11 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Newbie Tune help Hi all, I am fairly new to this forum and hope I place this in the right spot. I bought a 2013 FRS 10 series 3-4 months ago and have done minor modifications. I have added the following: EL Tomei Headers Borla Catback exhaust TRD Intake I was planning to get a tune to get some extra power but want to know if anyone has any good or bad points to doing a NA Tune. A local tuner will charge me $750, they use Ecutek but the price includes tune and license (no cable). And Delicious Tuning is around $900. I will be running 93 octane at all times, it is my DD no need for E85. I want to do FI eventually but at the moment I want to pay the car off and go from there. The major question is it worth the $700+ to gain maybe 10-20hp? both tuners state different numbers

11-12-2014, 04:11 PM	#2
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eguzman6 Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Drives: FRS 10 Series Location: Virginia Posts: 98 Thanks: 15 Thanked 13 Times in 11 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	@tennisfreak it is a good tuning shop. They work with TC's as well as FRS/BRZ they have a good turbo kit but it's a good amount of money. Do you think I should get any other bolt ons before I do a tune to get more out of it. Such as front/over pipe?

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eguzman6 Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Drives: FRS 10 Series Location: Virginia Posts: 98 Thanks: 15 Thanked 13 Times in 11 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	You might be right about that. It's Pretty loud as it is now.

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