So this is how tuners are now hiding that they’re peddling canned tunes to masses with 2.85 pulleys and 1050 injectors and keeping you from finding the F ups in their tunes that cause damage to engines? Like turning misfire detection Off, turning knock sensors off or up to the moon, forgetting to rescale tables, not catching lean areas, etc? Thank God I had a nice forum member help teach me how to not have to rely on a Hellcat tuner.
I had a guy remote tune my boys RX-8, a very specialized rotary engine, not many dabble in them and the ones that do wanted almost 5k in mods and 2-2500$ in turning costs to tune a stock block turbo added rotary engine. Said we needed a new custom Adaptronic ECU only made in Australia 1600$, new injectors 1000$, new fuel system $1500 a bunch of new sensors for another $1000, the car was going to sit!! Found a Old school guy located in New Zealand who did it for $450!! We had to buy a custom software called Mazda Edit and a special OBD2 adapter called a Tactrix, had to go through a 3 email back and forth unlocking of the factory PCM and marrying it to the Tactrix and software process which cost 300 total and this guy on the other side of the world was more responsive, helpful, and more so RESPECTFUL of me as a customer then a Hellcat tuner in my own state, nice aye!! This guy got me revisions within minutes of getting him logs no matter what time of day or day of the week it was. BEST 450$ I’ve spent playing with cars, wish some of these high roller tuners would get off their pedestal's and treat paying customers with some respect not expect their asses kissed. Sorry for the rant, burns my ass every time I think of my experience with a few.
