Got an updated race fuel tune from Brad today! Looking hopeful at lowering down my time on the 12th at a midnight madness. I am hoping the DA will be nice and low now that it is fall. 3000DA is the lowest it's ran at so far so here is hoping! Pretty dang excited really to see what we can get done. Hope these new 275 truck tires will hook well!
What have you done to your Ecoboosted vehicle today?
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Busy week last week. I had been letting everything settle before correct alignment since raising back up, but rain finally came in last week and car was like it was on ice. Had the alignment done Tues and that helped quite a bit, but she was still not confidence inspiring.
So I went in Friday and had the GMAX AS-05's I got in that super sale a 2 months ago put on the car. It is funny how you do not notice road noise changes over time. Not only do the new tires ride much smoother, but they are notably quieter. I love the new stance too between the wired wheels, tires and stance the car finally looks the part of a sport sedan.
So I went in Friday and had the GMAX AS-05's I got in that super sale a 2 months ago put on the car. It is funny how you do not notice road noise changes over time. Not only do the new tires ride much smoother, but they are notably quieter. I love the new stance too between the wired wheels, tires and stance the car finally looks the part of a sport sedan.
Did you ever sell those PPE catted pipes?
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Thanks.Jordan said:
Cool thing is that I went to discount tire to have them installed. Was going to be $195 for mount/balance, tax, etc.. Got there and the guy said I should have gotten tires from him, they match pricing, etc. Then I told him I normally do use them exclusively, but with the price I paid I knew he could not match it and it would be borderline insulting to ask him too. He was shocked at the price but rolled with it and then asked me if I wanted to get the replacement certificates for them, told him I didn't think it was worth the expense. Normally for a commuter car I will do it due to miles and crap on roads, but had to play the game.. So he told me he would waive the mount fee if I did. SOLD!! All said mounted, balanced, full replacement certificates, tax, disposal fees, etc $231 otd.
1st commute drive today, man what a difference. It was raining all night, soaked roads and she stuck like roads were dry. Ride is noticeably smoother and quieter as well. I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
I kept the two best tires from old set and will have them mounted on the old stock wheels I have laying around. Might see about deflating one and making it fit in trunk along with the factory emergency pump and a jack setup.
Reloaded my LMS tune today, decided I’m going to stick with them. The car may or may not be as fast, but it feels “happier”.
Have an email out to LMS as well about their new programmer, if it can datalog and do live monitoring of pids, I’ll probably off load the SCT device and the old my calibrator for new one.
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Have an email out to LMS as well about their new programmer, if it can datalog and do live monitoring of pids, I’ll probably off load the SCT device and the old my calibrator for new one.
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SHOdded said:
No reason to be disappointed. My original plan was to stick with LMS for this car, Matt got me hyped up on his tune, decided to give it a try since he is doing lots of cool stuff for our cars. I suspect there is not much more than a little over a tenth of a difference between the tunes. And the LMS tune is super clean and smooth on the datalogs... I have swapped tuners so much that I swore I wasn’t gonna do that with my 2016...
I am considering selling off the X4 device.
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SHOdded said:
Uh oh Manu... am I sensing some tude? Perhaps an eye roll in there somewhere?
Not that I don’t warrant it lol...
But I am serious this time..
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StealBlueSho said:
Super clean conservative(smooth) tune. Does one purchase a HPFP among other items with intent to be conservative? Perhaps. Idk SBS. I don't know you personally but I've read many of your posts. Tunes from LMS, AJP and GearHead. You look at all the data logs. Is GH tune really that aggressive? Idk. I like the fact that you havent been completely all about one tuner. In fact your reviews of working with each tuner and their results is interesting and informative. Part of your experince with Brad helped me choose Brad for an LMS alternative. I couldn't be happier. For me the sole purpose of my mods were to be faster. And never recklessly faster. I was running 11 psi of boost on my LMS Meth tune. Clean and smooth is good but for me if I wanted to be that I might as well have stayed stock. But its not like I'm about to break down any moment now.
My two cents.
My current SHO really isn’t that modded.. 3BAR, AIRAID, HPFP, Tune, and Springs.. lots of go fast parts still on the table... (meth, IC, Turbos, etc etc). You could argue that instead of spending on the money on an exhaust and downpipes I spent it on a pump.
Does one buy a HPFP to stay conservative? I would venture to say the HPFP is much more a safety net. In the next month or so you will see people posting complaining about hesitation under load... happens every winter. The reason for this is as temps drops the demand on fuel gets higher. Tunes that run well during the warmer months don’t always run well in colder months for this reason. The HPFP allows me to run an aggressive tune all year round.
Is Gearheads E30 tune with the HPFP aggressive? I would most certainly say so, the overall load was higher than any meth tune I had on my 2010. It’s very capable of running 11’s with exhaust work and some weight reduction on stock turbos. And the data logs show it. It’s got all the safety features built in, so it’s safe, but very aggressive for sure.
I wouldn’t call LMS conservative. Their tunes have always been within a couple tenths of anyone else’s tunes that demand far more from the car. I can say that LMS tunes are the most consistent tunes I have run.
And smooth power isn’t in and of itself conservative. A car that is tuned well will be smooth and deceivingly quick. I have made it no secret that while the LMS tunes don’t have that throw in the back of the seat high boost feeling, their tune always surprises me at the track.
My fastest uncorrected time with Brad was a 12.351 and my fastest uncorrected time with LMS was a 12.41x but the demand between the tunes from the car were very different. Point is, the butt dyno can easily be wrong.
And I can also say that having worked with all the tuners and then knowledge I have gleaned, LMS doesn’t push the car much if at all past what the components can efficiently handle.
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Does one buy a HPFP to stay conservative? I would venture to say the HPFP is much more a safety net. In the next month or so you will see people posting complaining about hesitation under load... happens every winter. The reason for this is as temps drops the demand on fuel gets higher. Tunes that run well during the warmer months don’t always run well in colder months for this reason. The HPFP allows me to run an aggressive tune all year round.
Is Gearheads E30 tune with the HPFP aggressive? I would most certainly say so, the overall load was higher than any meth tune I had on my 2010. It’s very capable of running 11’s with exhaust work and some weight reduction on stock turbos. And the data logs show it. It’s got all the safety features built in, so it’s safe, but very aggressive for sure.
I wouldn’t call LMS conservative. Their tunes have always been within a couple tenths of anyone else’s tunes that demand far more from the car. I can say that LMS tunes are the most consistent tunes I have run.
And smooth power isn’t in and of itself conservative. A car that is tuned well will be smooth and deceivingly quick. I have made it no secret that while the LMS tunes don’t have that throw in the back of the seat high boost feeling, their tune always surprises me at the track.
My fastest uncorrected time with Brad was a 12.351 and my fastest uncorrected time with LMS was a 12.41x but the demand between the tunes from the car were very different. Point is, the butt dyno can easily be wrong.
And I can also say that having worked with all the tuners and then knowledge I have gleaned, LMS doesn’t push the car much if at all past what the components can efficiently handle.
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SHOdded said:
LMS Touch MyCalibrator supports live streaming upto 6 PIDS... I will be ordering this tomorrow and selling off my SCTx4 and possibly the MyCalibrator I have right now. Curious if LMS will do a trade in.. otherwise its going up.
I will even so graciously return my HPFP in exchange. 