Hey,

There be some custom tuning coming up on LS1's and LT1's next month. Looks like it will be happening November 14th-15th in Dallas.

Jeff Creech is flying in to tune. Anyone know Jeff of Carolina Auto Masters????

His web page is http://www.carolinaautomasters.com/

Information can be gained from dfw_dyno_tune@mindspring.com.

The Rat............

 

May be interested..What kind of price are we looking at for the dyno time?

Cody

 

LS1 tuning - $450 includes 2 hour time slot on dyno
LT1 tuning - $325 includes 2 hour time slot on dyno
Prom tuning - $130/hr includes dyno

 

Is 2 hrs enough time to tune a car adequatley?

How long has this guy been tuning lt1's?

Thanks

Cody

 

Good question!

Ya, 2 hours is plenty of time for him. He is known through-out the f-body community and has the routine down.

Why not email him at info@carolinaautomasters.com

 

Hey, I've been tuning LT1/LS1-6 professionally since early 2000, and have operated a dyno/tuning shop since May of last year.

If a car is not too wildly modified then I can knock it out in under an hour, complicated cars, like big cam/head combinations or blower cars take a little longer, but inside of 2 hours we're fighting for those 1-2 rwhp.

One warning, I do not have LS1edit for ODB-2, so at this point for me to tune you'd need to install an ODB-1 computer. I can get more HP out of that combination anyway. However, if there's a gaggle of people (well 4-5) who don't wanna make a switch and only want to tune the ODB-2 computer, then I'll get the software. I'd have it already if I really saw the demand for it. In North Carolina and surrounding states, I don't see much of a call for it.

Hope that helps answer your questions, I'll be happy to answer more...

So far this week I've only tuned 2 LT1's, a supercharged one that went from 406 to 516 rwhp and a mostly stock one that went from 252 to 274 rwhp. But I have another on the schedule for tomorrow.

Made some nice LS1 gains this week too.

look forward to meeting y'all next month!
-jeff

 

Jeff~ I have alrdy switched to OBD1 Scanning my car has resulted in me seeing 7-10 degrees of knock all the way up but it still dynoed 390/390 and I see alot of room for improvement.

-Cody

 

milkman, do we have to set up appointment w/ you or is it just first come first serve????

I can't be anywhere till the afternoon of the 15th but i'm very interested!!!

 

Here is the original message from the DFW F-Body list:

Announcing a DFW LS1/LT1 Dyno Tune opportunity. This has come about by the fact that a renowned GM tuner, Jeff Creech of Carolina Auto Masters, is coming to the area the weekend of November 14-15th. Initially he was just to tune one car but since everything fell into place so easily, namely the brand new dyno facilities of David Houser's Kwik Kar in Richardson, he will have some extra time to open up his services to anyone who wants some tuning. Jeff has gained a reputation on the East Coast of being able to safely get most out of a tune. There have been numerous occasions when he as even found more horsepower, sometimes 15-20 more, than other custom tuners. This is nothing compared to what he can unlock vs. a mail-order
tune.

Location:
Kwik Kar Lube, Tune & Repair of Richardson http://www.kwikkarauto.com
1851 Jupiter Road
Richardson, TX
972-644-1851

Dates & Schedule:
Friday - 11/14/2003

Time slots available - 8am-10am, 10am-12pm, 12pm-2pm, 2pm-4pm, 4pm-6pm



Saturday - 11/15/2003

Time Slots available - 8am-10am, 10am-12pm, 12pm-2pm, 2pm-4pm, 4pm-6pm

* The two-hour time slot also includes strapping and unstrapping time

Pricing:

LS1 tuning - $450 includes 2 hour time slot on dyno, requires $75 deposit
LT1 tuning - $325 includes 2 hour time slot on dyno, requires $75 deposit
Prom tuning - $130/hr includes dyno, requires $75 deposit
Dyno-only time (only as time permits after tuning) -
$30 gets you 3 consecutive pulls with no O2 readings
$40 gets you 3 consecutive pulls with O2 readings

Cash or Money Order only. We have a PayPal account edholio@mindspring.com and only there you can pay by credit card.

If paying thru PayPal the tuning costs are:
Deposit $78.00
LS1 - $468.00
LT1 - $363.00
PayPal Fees are non-refundable. Refunds, minus PayPal fees, will be made by
us via PayPal or by Personal Check. Credit cards CAN NOT be accepted the
day of tuning.

Details:

GM cars/trucks only
LS1 OBDII
LT1 OBDI (LT1 OBDII is not available)
Link to Jeff Creech's website is www.carolinaautomasters.com
Signup via email to dfw_dyno_tune@mindspring.com on a first come first served basis.

$75 deposit (fully refundable if time is canceled before 12:00 PM CDT (noon) on 11/11/2003). Once the deposit is received we will confirm their tune appointment. This will be on a first come first served basis, first one making the deposit will get the spot.

Alternates will be allowed to sign-up.

Questions should be sent via email to dfw_dyno_tune@mindspring.com

Dyno-only time will be used as filler only

Request that participants arrive a minimum 1 hour before appointment.

Anyone not present at appointment time forfeits his/her appointment and deposit. This will be enforced.

 

Cody, agreed if you're seeing that kinda knock retard there's a lot of room for improvement. Question for you though, to make sure it's fake can you pop in a couple gallons of race gas and see if the problem changes? I'm betting it won't. I can see knock on the dyno plain as day, but if we know before then we can address the issues differently.

And yeah, make appointments by sending mail to that dfwdynotune address thing in that earlier post.

This is going to be a lot of fun, seeing old friends and making new ones and hopefully making a lot of cars run a lot faster.

take care,
-jeff

 

You can sign up for tuning by sending a note to dfw_dyno_tune@mindspring.com. Make sure to request a time slot.

The Friday slots are still wide open. Saturday is starting to fill up.

 

Last I checked there were no LS1's signed up?? I figgerd it'd be all LS1/LS6 and only 1-2 LT1.

I tune a lot of LS1's and everyone reports they pick up time at the track after tuning.

I'm looking forward to coming down there!!
-jeff

 

Man...you gonna be in Houston anytime Jeff? Not sure if I can make it to Dallas around those times otherwise I'd be all over this.

 

No plans to be in Houston, but if there's a gang of you down there needing tuing and a dyno with wideband to rent for a day, then I'll come down there. You can be host just like Ed and David are in Dallas and it'll happen.

My local customers are going to get pissed that I'm not there on the weekends for them, but they get all week.
-jeff

 

My lt-1 has OBD-1 not ODB-1