Sct programer
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chris2523
93 Mark VIII
is a mark viii a 96-99 cobra? no it is not.
mikeskustomfab
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^^^^hahahaha
KStromberg
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NetKeym
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....... but ya **** so good I'm on top of it! I dream of doing you all night, scratches all down my back, I keep a right on!
GMAN
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KStromberg
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Getting a dyno tune at a shop is going to be better than a chip. That is real-time tuning and not a "blind tune" that you get with a chip. There is no way for a remote person who set you up with a chip to be sure that your lock-up, shift points, and A/F ratios are at an optimum.
Even the best of the best chip tuners out there are still guessing. There is no real-time data from YOUR car for them to look at like a dyno tuner can look at when he gets your car all hooked up.
Now I know that you are probably not looking for something wild and crazy, or maybe your are, but if I could go back in time, I would have just taken it to the dyno. Now I have to go forward in time and spend more money again to do what I should have done in the first place.
If you want to go all out, you can get a tuner with SCT Pro Racing software for example. This allows you to take it one step beyond (and even in addition to the dyno) and actually data-log the car and its behavior as you are driving it and/or racing it down the track. There are things that your car will tell you in real-world driving situations that you won't necessarily see on the dyno.
DLF
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The issue isn't the engine, it's the PCM. A tune has to be written that matches the strategy and catch code of the PCM installed in your car.
For example, the catch code on my '98 Cobra is AOL3 (strategy - CRAJ0) and on my '98 LSC it's BTC0 (strategy CMBA0).
The canned tunes that come with the SCT 3015 tuner will not work on a Mark VIII.