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Actually I did ask alot of questions. I told him about the other guy I was thinking about going to. I also asked him why aren't you hooking up a wideband and he said he didn't have to because he will give it as much fuel as need to make the most power. So I said oh you are going to do a pull add/remove fuel and run another and he said yes. Then he didn't do it. I've tuned 5 or so vehicles using megasquirt so i'm not stupid on tuning my self, but I am knew to someone tuning my vehicle. Wasn't sure what it would involve.

I've done a few mods to my gto and wanted to get it tuned. I had two options go to a halfway known tuner and get his tune flashed and then run it down the track (for $250) or go to a well known tuner and get it dyno tuned ($425). So I decided to go to the well known tuner and get it dyno tuned. This is what he did. Strapped the car to the dyno, ran a baseline pull, loaded up a file and did some editing (5-10minutes max), then ran another pull, then ran a third pull with a scanner to watch the timing and stuff and called it a day. Never hooked up a wideband and never played with settings:fmad:. When I told him this is not what I would call a dyno tune but a dyno load he started to spout well i've done tons of your cars with the same mods so I don't need to do your vehicle. Then I pointed out that every vehicle is different and that what works on one vehicle won't work on another. Then he started to say that the tune he put in was the safest yet most powerful tune he was willing to do without headers or cam. (aka maybe trying to sell me stuff) In the end he did say he would give it to me for free but I was not ok with it so I gave him the $250 the other guy would have charged me for loading a tune. What do you guys think was I in the right to ask for a real tune or wrong because he had so much experience? The thing that annoys me the most is I don't know what my afr's are, my car is popping upon decel just as much if not more(a problem with gto's) and I know my car is not optimize just improved. The good thing is he did pick up 10hp and 10lb-tq everywhere and close to 25 at readline. This is normal for this car if not under. People have seen close to 20-30 peak from a stock gto.

Have fun... umm yeah I guess if you have too call me if you need help:mrgreen:

LOL my friend had srt-4 also and HATED the shift knob. JB weld was his friend. Also he ran a 13.3 @102 on street tires. Nice runs. What boost were you running at the track 20?

Hey olie in response to your question you can now advance the timing alittle bit more due to the fact that you were only detonating at low rpm high load before. And since the cam reduces pressures at low rpms you should be able to advance the timing a couple of degrees to help out your low end. Good luck

Its a GOAT!!! Well I was driving to work and I passed a dealership and naturally I started to look at the used cars they had for sale. What do I happen to notice a silver gto. Turns out to be very nice but overly priced GTO. So I decided to do some research and found out that I could save 7k buy getting a GTO that has more power, 3yrs newer, 30k miles less, a back seat, and much more luxious (in my opinion). So my quest was started. Three days later I found my new car. Its a 05' Gto 6.0 with 27k miles on it. It's black with black leather interior 6spd manual. This is my second v8 car. The last one was 5yrs ago and it was a stock 90' mustang gt. The three things I like the most about this car are the power (ls2 is very nice), looks, and the tall ass gearing. (46mph, 68mph, 100mph, 144mph, 172mph, 200mph+) The three things I dislike about the gto are: #1 WEIGHT this porker is 3725lbs stock. It doesn't feel like its that heavy due to the power, suspension, and brakes but it is heavy.(i'm working on it) #2 The steering wheel. It looks like it came out of a caravan. #3 The key. The key is the size of a pinto or bigger. Other than that i'm loving it. Got some mods on the way nothing crazy just freeing up some tq. I've owned it for 2 days and already put 300 miles on her. Any other GTO owners out there? Now that I got my DD i'll be focusing on my next project real soon or later:fmad:.

I had those in 225/50r15's on one z and 225/60r15's on another z. Loved them both. They are great tires. Good lateral grip and acceleration grip. They did wear kindof fast but then again I do like to go down the quarter mile alot so thats probably why.

Dave240z and Mikelly, I found both of your views informative. I think that you both raise valid points but seem to have some miscommunication on what the other person was trying to get across. One of the auto loan stimpulations is that the car needs to be an 02 or newer so a s52 bmw is out of the question. And being that a s54 M coupe or m3 is as expensive or more than a z06 (talking about initial cost) and I would rather have a z06 over a M coupe if prices were equal I will be getting a z06. I have ordered one from a dealer in Cali and it should be here next week. It is an 02' Blue with 50k miles on it. I'll post up when it arrives. Thanks for the input.

Here are the pictures of the fun...

I believe that footage is from the Sport Compact Car Ultimate car shoot out last year or the year b4. For the burnout what he did was put the front engine in forward and the rear engine in reverse. Nice post.

Umm did someone say Ferrari? Wait i'm not willing to sell any body parts or live in a shoe for a car atleast at this time:).