it helps to have a laptop. youll have to get a wire to plug in under your dash to a port on your computer. get the cables here: http://www.akmcables.com/ . the rest comes in an email package that you have to load. simple process.

 

Basically you need to buy a ALDL cable for your car. You'll need one with a OBDII style connector. You plug one end into the ALDL port under your drivers side dash and the other end to the serial port of your computer. You dont need a laptop, but it might make things easier. I just lug my desktop out into the garage and load the tune he sent me in an email. He does not send you the equipment, but the only necessary things are: Computer with serial port, internet access, and ALDL cable for OBDII.

An example of Ion's customer service. Late this afternoon I emailed Ion for a tune to update my idle RPM. It hasnt even been 10 hours and I have the tune ready to load at my convenience. Thanks Ion

-Dustin-

 

i have a obd1 though since its a 95, do i still get the obd2 one? ya but the wire alone is just like $90+ shipping, so im not saving much money am i?

 

I got tunes from both of them, one for street, one for strip (to support their great work ). I am not dare to compare - both are excellent

 

The ALDL ports changed in 95 to the OBDII style. Even though your computer was still OBDI. You basically have two options, buy a OBDI style if you find a deal on one and use Shoebox's website to adapt it to a OBDII port or you can just find a striaght OBDII ported wire. I cant afford to buy things new so I bought mine from the board for $20 shipped. I'd keep looking around and place a WTB ad for it. The cost vs benefit depends on how much you use Madwolf. He just sent me my 5th tune, I never thought I'd need 5 tunes for a bolt on, but things happen. I think if I sent him my PCM each time it costs like $60 plus shipping and maybe a lower price for retunes. Thats like $300 with shipping. Its also 15 business days to get it back. Its happily only cost me $55 + LT1 KM and maybe an hour of time.

-Dustin-

 

i would do it if i had a lap top... or at least a desktop in the garage but i dont, so it will be very hard to do

 

Just buy a cheap laptop. IBM thinkpads work great. For about $150 you can get a laptop then you can get datamaster to actually check things out too. I'd say for $350-400 you can get a cheap laptop, cable, datamaster and tunercat. Not bad for what it allows you to do. I'd still get yourself hooked up with madwolf or Pcmforless, but having your laptop allows you to make small tweaks (like idle rpm, gears, tires) instantly with out having to bug/wait for them. Ion's been a big help to me and so has PCMforless. I'd talk to both and just decide on who you like better.

 

No brainer answer here;


BOTH of these tuners know their stuff - you cannot go wrong with either of them.

I agree with Shoebox as far as comparisons go - you would need 2 pcm's and the same conditions to properly compare the 2.

 

Whatever you do dont let this guy tune your car, especially for 3.73 gearing. You'll be shifting into 4th at 10mph and cruising at 150 in school zones

Thats the fastest I've even had my car!

-Dustin-

 

Another vote for brian. I had my car on the dyno locally and the a/f ratio was nailed.

 

pcmforless was/is great to me. Got me my computer rather fast considering I'm pretty far away. also replied to any of my questions rather fast. I only had two problems and one of those problems may not have nothing to do with the tune. The other problem will easilly be solved when my cable gets here so I can read my code. Overall I love the new tune. It's made my car night and day. Only thing left is to get it on the dyno and at the track. Thanks for the hard work Brian. I got 3 more people coming your way.

 

I bought a madz28 email tune a few days ago, and in so far no response? It's annoying not knowing what speed im going on the highway with 4.10s in the car! I got a chp tailing me, and I just pulled off real quick. musta been doing 10 over or so, since I have to guess lol. I have tunercat and may just start messing with it to try to fix my speedo, cant be that hard.

how long does it normally take him to get you the email tune from the day you send the payment? I tried pming him but no response to that.

 

I had tunes from both on the same engine combo and they were within 10rwhp/10-15rwtq (if I remember correctly. these numbers are not exact, but close). Keep in mind that these dyno pulls were on different days with different conditions so I would imagine that both tunes were reasonably close power wise.

 

You've placed the order and PMed me yesterday. Would you like me to post a picture of both including times? You will have the tune today.

 

Okay great, wasn't trying to be pushy or anything, was just curious. Thanks!