Looking for a good mail order tune??

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Like the title says i need a good place that i can get a mail order tune from. I have a 96 that is running a little rough when idling for a few mins after start up. also when i release the gas the rpm drops down to 1500 and holds there for a few seconds before falling down to its correct idling speed of a little over 500.

the car has:
Cobra intake swap
IMRC delete
EGR delete
4.10's
Headers
24lb injectors (i think)
90mm MAF
and a T56

needless to say the ECU is a little confused lol if anyone knows of a place that i could get a nice solid tune from id really appreciate it!

Thanks,
Ben
 
Sorry I do not know but good luck because that sounds like a lot of specialized (rare) modifications to find a mail order tune. I hope I'm wrong.
 
Contact Torrie at Fast Parts Network. Not sure if they do this or not but if so, I would trust them for it to be done right. Then you have Blue Oval Chips but idk if either do what you're wanting to have done. I'm not really into the modding scene. If I ever started, it would never be fast enough, so in other words, it would be an endless money pit for me.

Maybe others will chime in that do mod. :shifty:
 
Thanks guys, i will try those two places you mentioned Nolimit. But yea idk if a mail order tune will be able to do what i want but i think its worth a try. If it doesn't work livernois is right up the road and i will see if they can help me out with a dyno tune.
 
I have about the same setup you do and I have a mail order tune from blue oval chips. I'm fairly happy with it but I eventually will be taking it to get Dino tuned
 
That close to livernois? I would just go directly there and not screw with a mail order
 
96mark8 said:
Thanks guys, i will try those two places you mentioned Nolimit. But yea idk if a mail order tune will be able to do what i want but i think its worth a try. If it doesn't work livernois is right up the road and i will see if they can help me out with a dyno tune.
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A mail order would work, if you have the equipment and software to data log it. Otherwise i would drive up the road and be done.
 
Thanks for all the input guys. the reason i wanted to get a mail order one was to save a few hundred dollars. Also last year right after the intake swap my father and I brought the car to alternative auto to get it tuned and had a pretty poor experience. The car runs very rough and to start it u need to hold the gas pedal in the floor for it to start. The car will run very rough for the first few mins but after a few mins the car will start running pretty good and is fine to drive around. I told this to the tech that was putting my car on the dyno and was told "thanks buddy this isnt my first time" of course he did not listen to me and didn't give the car enough gas and it didn't start. They then spent about 30mins checking things like fuel pressure, ignition etc. (while checking the wiring they managed to short circuit the radiator fan so that now it is always on :/). everything checked out ok but the car wouldn't start. We told them if we simply push the car it will start. they didn't want to do this and said they didn't want to dyno a car that couldn't start itself. after about 30 mins they gave up and said that our car has a bigger problem then just a tune and told us they couldnt help us out. They then charged us $50 for there time. idk if they where busy and had bigger fish to fry or simply didn't want to touch a car that had so many changes but they didn't want anything to do with my car. so we brought it back checked the harness swapped ECU's, swapped out a bunch of sensors and have searched high and low but cant seem to figure out what is wrong and we are starting to think that it might just be a tuning problem. after having such a poor experience the first time around with a dyno im in no rush to go back to a dyno i wanted to simply try a mail order tune to see if it changed anything but maybe ill just go see what Livernois says.
 
yea at the time i did not know much about livernois and had heard alot of good things about alternative auto and knew they where a smaller business and thought that they might be more helpful so i gave them a try instead but i guess i was wrong lol.
 
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KStromberg said:
mail-order tune= 13.59@101.72 < DLF = not good :shifty:
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It has nothing to do with your times but if you are not datalogging your car you have no idea what is going on with it. For all you know you can be getting knock retard (pinging) and your timing is being retarded.
 
98LSC32V said:
It has nothing to do with your times but if you are not datalogging your car you have no idea what is going on with it. For all you know you can be getting knock retard (pinging) and your timing is being retarded.
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I'm calling the dyno shop tomorrow. He said to call tomorrow to see if he can squeeze me in this week, otherwise it will be the very beginning of next week. I'm hoping for 280rwhp. And they will rip it up and down the street a few times also which is a plus.
 
96mark8 said:
to start it u need to hold the gas pedal in the floor for it to start.
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96mark8 said:
and didn't give the car enough gas and it didn't start.
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Holding the pedal to the floor while starting turns off the injectors, it's what you do to start a previously flooded car. This isn't the old days, you can't really give the motor more "gas" by manipulating the throttle during startup. :p

They were correct, your car has issues if it won't start.

And cars with problems (or owners for that matter), can't be properly tuned. :rolleyes:

If you don't have a tune now, then your biggest issue is probably the 90mm MAF. Try putting the stock MAF back on. And make certain of which injectors you're using.

With the mods you've outlined, and no tune, I'm surprised it runs at all.

EDIT:

I see that you listed a "Sniper" tune.

Something that you did yourself?

Did you load the correct 90mm MAF transfer table? And the correct injector slopes, etc. (if you changed to different injectors)?

Did you manually add the IMRC timing tables to the base timing tables when you deleted the IMRC's?

I've never seen the Sniper software, so I have no idea what it's capable of.
 
thanks DLF i will try to swap in the old MAF and see if anything changes. But wouldn't a tune telling the car that it now has a 90mm maf fix this problem? u said it you self that it is a surprise that the car even runs without a tune and i think that everyone will agree that it needs one. However they didn't even want to try and tune it. I agree that there is still a possibility that this is a mechanical/ non tuning issue and that is why i am looking for mail order tunes so i don't drop $700 on a dyno tune and still have the same problems. i want a cheaper mail order tune to rule out "tuning" as the issue.
 
96mark8 said:
thanks DLF i will try to swap in the old MAF and see if anything changes. But wouldn't a tune telling the car that it now has a 90mm maf fix this problem?
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IF it was done properly in the "tune" and IF the MAF is working correctly, yes.

96mark8 said:
u said it you self that it is a surprise that the car even runs without a tune and i think that everyone will agree that it needs one. However they didn't even want to try and tune it. I agree that there is still a possibility that this is a mechanical/ non tuning issue and that is why i am looking for mail order tunes so i don't drop $700 on a dyno tune and still have the same problems. i want a cheaper mail order tune to rule out "tuning" as the issue.
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Make sure of what injectors you're using, get the part number off the MAF and then talk to Lonnie.
 
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