Sniper Tune Problems

What the heck does "Firm" mean?

Can you adjust your shift pressure based on a TP RPM table allowing you to lower the pressures at lower TP and RPM to give soft shifts around town and hard shift at higher throttle levels and RPM?

What about AFR's do you get to choose lean or rich?
 
kustomizingkid said:
What the heck does "Firm" mean?

Can you adjust your shift pressure based on a TP RPM table allowing you to lower the pressures at lower TP and RPM to give soft shifts around town and hard shift at higher throttle levels and RPM?

What about AFR's do you get to choose lean or rich?
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yea the "firm" setting is gay.
I'd rather use "real numbers" and know what those numbers MEAN rather than just some "term" that is very subjective to opinion and preference.

Firm is to describe b00bs not tuning.
 
the #1 thing I like about the tuning solution I have is..
you get access to over 300 stock values, and it contains your stock PCM calibration AS ford delivered it.
So you get to tune and..and also use the ford engineers data to compare to.

no stupid templates, no begging for help
If you know what your doing it's "ALL THERE"
 
kustomizingkid said:
What the heck does "Firm" mean?

Can you adjust your shift pressure based on a TP RPM table allowing you to lower the pressures at lower TP and RPM to give soft shifts around town and hard shift at higher throttle levels and RPM?

What about AFR's do you get to choose lean or rich?
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You are asking for way tooo much there. It says "firm" what more could possibly want to know! LOL I do agree with that limits sniper have. I don't know the SCT side of this YET but the sniper side is limited for a person with tuning knowledge. With the special forces package anyway. Sniper has more advanced software such as delta force which I dont have. I was told that it is more in depth. Like the SCT some are talking of.

I would recommend this to a novice with no tuneing knowledge. It has made my car faster at the track Most of that is due to 98lsc32v. With the one issue of the speed limiter.
 
XLRVIII said:
what he said is absolutely 100% correct.

try not to be such a cry baby when people dont swing from your nuts..m'kay?

I'm not a sniper hater, it's just a "hobbled program" that gives the user NOT ALL the access they need.

Now your here, cheerleading people into buying something that "didn't work right for you", clearly by your posts on the sniper forum.

It did not work right out of the box, you needed a LOT of "hand holding" to get your tune done.
NOw that patrick SPOON FED you your tuning, you think your experienced enough to "help others"?

That's a laugh

Rather than admit your mistake and move forward, you would rather drag more people down your little pigeon hole.

GOOD JOB!
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You are comparing your SCT racer package to the basic Sniper Special Forces which is not comparable at all! You want to compare your full out racer package, compare it to the Sniper delta forces which gives you 100% access to your PCM. Sniper special forces is good enough for 99% of Mark VIII owners out there. Why do you need to have the SCT racer package to run 14's? I can run 14's all day bone stock or with an off the shelf canned tune from SCT or Sniper... why waste your money? Now if you had a built motor, supercharged, etc... then maybe I would invest in such a package and even then I would go for the Sniper Delta Forces which is cheaper and can do everything the SCT racer package can do.
 
I agree that sct has been tried and tested more then sniper and has more things available. However, to a n00b as myself the sniper is going to do exaclty what i want it to do..plus you cant beat the price (especially if you split it with someone as i did)

Once i get crazy and the car isnt a DD anymore, forced induction or what you may be i will be stepping up to a more sophisticated software...the good thing is i'll know more about tuning to utilize it better then i do now.

So for the 140 bucks or whatever i spent on this to be able to squeeze a few extra hp out of it, ease of use and being able to change pretty much anything you would need to on a stock vehicle...i dont see a problem with it.

Unless i get it and it doesnt work and sucks, then i'll be pissed and you will be the first to hear about it. ;)
 
I am glad that I have bought software that will accomidate me when my car runs 15's and will still meet my needs when I run 14's, 13's, 12's, etc....

Also... my total cost for the PRP and the Xcal for my Mark was around $400... So I am $250 in more than you and never have to buy anything again... so who really got the good deal here?
 
all of us as long as we're happy...

Where did you get the prp and xcal for 400? isnt the xcal by itself like 400?

I dont know anything about 15's (see sig) but the sniper is plenty suitable to get me into the 12's ...so that didnt really prove anything.

When i take it off the road and do a MAJOR overhaul is when ill upgrade to something different and get it on a dyno to get a real tune...and who knows how long that will be. Even then, I can always sell it and at this point 150 is a drop in the pool compared to what ive spent on it..and i havent even started getting to the good stuff yet.

This conversation is getting as dumb as the "should i keep the air ride or convert it" threads.
 
kustomizingkid said:
I am glad that I have bought software that will accomidate me when my car runs 15's and will still meet my needs when I run 14's, 13's, 12's, etc....

Also... my total cost for the PRP and the Xcal for my Mark was around $400... So I am $250 in more than you and never have to buy anything again... so who really got the good deal here?
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Htrdlinc98 runs 12's with sniper special forces, what is your point again?
 
XLRVIII said:
there you!
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Well obviously considering there hasn't been one Mark VIII that has run 12's NA to my knowledge. So is your buddy kustomizingkid trying to run 12's NA? Good luck... maybe with the magical SCT racer package he will be able to do it eh?
 
Just get two cars same mod's same track one sniper one SCT and run them. All this talk about this and that on times leaving out non stock items. Does nobody any good when compairing. But I don't think there is SCT tune problem thread. I would search it but SCT is Three characters. Everyone likes there decisions but we all can't have same decisions either. So here we are debating like old ladies at a daily southern tea party. Pour me another cup.
 
98LSC32V said:
Well obviously considering there hasn't been one Mark VIII that has run 12's NA to my knowledge. So is your buddy kustomizingkid trying to run 12's NA? Good luck... maybe with the magical SCT racer package he will be able to do it eh?
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no one said ANYone was trying to run 12's NA.

But I guarantee you one thing.

That n00b to dragracing KK will run as fast or faster than your car, with about 200 less characters in his sig file.

go find you some rice and do some of that "roll on racing" you love so much.
 
Welp.... since my car CURRENTLY runs 9.84 in the 1/8th I should probably just STFU.... but hell at one time long ago my buddy Russ was in the 15's with his Vic which is currently the fastest NA Vic that we know of.... and a guy with the initials JL had a 15 second Bird that now runs 12's NA.... So anything is possible and me, well I'll try and make it possible using SCT software :D

Lux, I bought a used xcal, deals are out there if you look around, ebay, forums, clist keep looking!!!!
 
XLRVIII said:
no one said ANYone was trying to run 12's NA.

But I guarantee you one thing.

That n00b to dragracing KK will run as fast or faster than your car, with about 200 less characters in his sig file.

go find you some rice and do some of that "roll on racing" you love so much.
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If you can run 13's with just gears and other bolt ons I am impressed. Gears and converter... should be automatic 13's not as impressive.
 
i agree, cant we all get along! yes kid got one hell of a deal on his shyt, yes sct prp you can do alot more than special forces. but special forces is more the "entry level". it is limited on what you can do, but since im new at tuning and i got 2 ford obd2 vehicles why not. i havent used it on my markviii yet but so far so good on my 5.0 explorer. :D really woke the old girl up at 177k!!
 
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