Digital Tuning Tuner Suggestions & How One Works

On392 said:

Bama is junk now, was the man when he ran his one man operation before getting bought out and a team does it.

I still think brenspeed is the way to go on 3v.

You won’t be tuning yourself right?

Buy your mods and tell your tuner your pcm code and they will email you a tune, most load on their sct xcal tuner.

I don’t think a nitrous tune is a good idea unless you use it only for the track, timing **** up for daily driving on that car

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Noobz347 said:

This depends on the type of tuner that you get.

If you purchase one from say, American Muscle, it will arrive with "canned tunes" that are an approximation based upon a stock car plus modifications that you have given them information about.

Often, tuner companies will offer you a limited number of stat-logs. Those are data logs that you take from your programmer and send back to manufacturer. They will make changes based upon those data logs.

There are two basic methods that digital tuners use and the method depends on the EEC for that vehicle. Some tuners have the capacity to load a tune directly to the EEC, changing the way that the EEC interprets and deals with data. The other method that tuners use, modify the traffic going to and coming out of the EEC. The EEC doesn't know that this is happening, it's doing what it always did but data is being altered to get the desired outcome.

You don't get to pick which method is used. Your EEC does.

By far, the best way to get your car tuned is on a dynamometer. Here, the tune is tailored to your car specifically, the very first time. This is also the most expensive route and often involves hardware that is not adjustable by you (although this is not always the case).

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