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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 11:59 PM
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tuning myself with a base calibration tune

I have been looking at getting the car tuned but i would love to learn to do some myself. This option is available and i wanted your opinion on if it would be the best way to go with little experience on the matter. Here there option: "Do you own a datalogging cable? Have you tried tuning yourself but have only run into dead ends? This service is for you. For $75 we will send you a base calibration that will help you get started in the right direction. You will have unlimited re-burns until the car is tuned in fully or 6 months has expired whichever comes first. We accept TTS datamaster datalogs, Dynojet Runviewer files, and scanned dyno sheets. Note: this offer is only good for your setup, if you change camshaft, injectors, heads, etc. you will need to pay $25 again." Would this be a tune i could live with and tweek if i wanted of a rough attempt that would need some help right away?
Old Dec 12, 2007 | 03:44 PM
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Who is giving you this option?

94-95 cars do not use "burns", they are flash programmed. This makes me think whoever it is might not really know what they are talking about.
Old Dec 12, 2007 | 04:30 PM
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Who is giving you this option?

94-95 cars do not use "burns", they are flash programmed. This makes me think whoever it is might not really know what they are talking about.
To a EE, "Flashing" and "burning" are synonymous with respect to an EEPROM.
Old Dec 12, 2007 | 04:44 PM
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I have been looking at getting the car tuned but i would love to learn to do some myself. This option is available and i wanted your opinion on if it would be the best way to go with little experience on the matter. Here there option: "Do you own a datalogging cable? Have you tried tuning yourself but have only run into dead ends? This service is for you. For $75 we will send you a base calibration that will help you get started in the right direction. You will have unlimited re-burns until the car is tuned in fully or 6 months has expired whichever comes first. We accept TTS datamaster datalogs, Dynojet Runviewer files, and scanned dyno sheets. Note: this offer is only good for your setup, if you change camshaft, injectors, heads, etc. you will need to pay $25 again." Would this be a tune i could live with and tweek if i wanted of a rough attempt that would need some help right away?

This is a good option, though not for the reason you're considering. Any mail-order tune is going to be at best approximate, so this option allows the tune to be optimized for your particular car by the tuner.

For what you are describing - that you want to do some tuning yourself - this is an extra-cost option that gains you nothing. If you want to tweak the program yourself and want a baseline to start from, simply get a regular mail-order tune and go from there.

However, since you have a supercharger, I'd be inclined to start with a local dyno tune instead of a mail order tune. You can still do the non-WOT fine tuning yourself, but I'd want an expert tuning WOT in person on the dyno if I had forced induction. And since your combo is less common the mail order tune will be even more "approximate" than it would for a common combination like, say, an LE2 355.
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