Well i got the SCT tuner in and it was very easy to use and the tune the guy put on it for me to down load was great also i can feel a big difference in it.
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Well amazone racing had allready downloaded a tune for my car into the hand held SCT tuner and all i had to do is plug it in. It then saved my Saleen tune and downloaded the new one. I deffinetly am looking forward to getting it dynoed. and then when i get the water/methanol injection kit all i have to do is call him and he will email me a new tune. But it can also be tuned by hand with the tuner.
Cool, that sounds easy enough. I am ordering mine as soon as i do the few mods that i have planned. Does anybody know where the best place to get a mail order tune is? I know some people have a lot of experience by working on a ton of stangs and they would probably have narrowed down the best tune for a certain mods that yields the biggest gains on the avg mustang. I know each car is different and it just depends, but it cant hurt. I have heard MPH or modular depot have done a ton of work and know what they are doing and is probably a good place to get a mail order tune. Anybody have any other suggestions?
i got mine at amazon tuning solutions and my buddy also uses them and so far they are very easy to deal with if i want a new tune all i have to do is call him. he deals mostly with mustangs and has done many saleens.
Modular Depot Tunes are always way to rich. Never delt With Amazon. I got mine on my 2003 S-281SC From Mike At Kemperformance He did a Fabulus job on my tune, and i never had one problem with him, just give him all your mods, and he will biuld a custom tune for your car.
My Mods are
Mods:
~Reichard Racing 3.0 Ultra Grip Blower Pulley (10-11Psi)
~Xcal2 Tuned by Mike at Kem-Performance~
~Accufab 75MM Throttle Body~
~JLT Cold Air Intake~
~BBK Ceramic Coated Long Tube Headers~
~BBK Shorty Catted X pipe~
~Magnaflow catback~
~3:73 Gears~
~Lightning 90 MM MAF~
~Ford Racing 42# Injectors~
~SVT Focus Fuel Pump~
~NGK Tr6's Gapped at .038~
~Nitto 555Rll's~
I should be at around 400rwhp and 400rwtq.
My Mods are
Mods:
~Reichard Racing 3.0 Ultra Grip Blower Pulley (10-11Psi)
~Xcal2 Tuned by Mike at Kem-Performance~
~Accufab 75MM Throttle Body~
~JLT Cold Air Intake~
~BBK Ceramic Coated Long Tube Headers~
~BBK Shorty Catted X pipe~
~Magnaflow catback~
~3:73 Gears~
~Lightning 90 MM MAF~
~Ford Racing 42# Injectors~
~SVT Focus Fuel Pump~
~NGK Tr6's Gapped at .038~
~Nitto 555Rll's~
I should be at around 400rwhp and 400rwtq.
yeah i want to do more but also trying to keep as original as possible how do you like those nitto tires what size are they i have the 10 inch wide rear tires and have 295 on it right now and would like to go up to 305 or 315 but do not know if it will rub.
Now that you've got the new program in, be sure and rev it up to redline once or twice. The computer needs to "learn" the new program. When I first installed my SCT program and ran it on the dyno, it showed no boost in horsepower. The second time showed a boost of about 20 horsepower and then it leveled off.
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wsbrigham
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spederman said:
I would suggest Monty at JMS Chips and Performance. This guy has been featured in several mustang mags and so have his cars. When he did my tune, I gained 70 ft/lbs of torque and almost 60 rwhp.
The cool thing about his tunes he is always gives you three new tunes on each reprogram. My programs were broken down into high octane, mid octane and low octane.
Also, try Pereformance Auto Sport, all they do are Saleens and they are great and knowledgeable people to work with.
Tommy98016
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Other great SCT tuners are James @ RWTD and Herman from Horse Power by Herman. I personally went with James on the mail order tune for my 03 but from what I hear herman is just as good.
wsbrigham said:
Billy
Was that a email tune or did you take your car down to him and have him tune it and what did that cost. Also are there any good dyno shops down there me and some friends might be interested in a dyno day, I am wondering what my new numbers will be. Also Billy me and wife are comeing back out to ALB i think sunday and staying i think on base and then picking up my buddy on monday morning so if i do not get up there to late on sunday i will give you a call.
wsbrigham
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S281SC#08 said:
Hey Josh,
My tuning was accomplished by JMS e-mailing my tune to me while I was at the dyno shop and then immediately doing a couple of dyno pulls. I would then send the raw data dump of the runs back to JMS (including the dyno graphs). It took about three revisions to get the car dialed-in. The tuning didn't cost me anything because I bought my SCT programmer from JMS ($345- unbeatable deal).
There are two dyno shops here in Albuquerque - the Dyno Edge and SpeedDreams. The dyno edge works primarily with Mustangs. Chris, the owner, has a 8 second notch. However, getting an appointment is sometimes frustrating. Chris is pretty busy and I usually have to just show-up in the morning when he first opens to get some pulls.
SpeedDreams, on the other hand, is a very professionally run business. They have the ability to log all parameters of you car for the best diagnosis and tuning - the Dyno Edge doesn't. Also, they have a great SCT & Predator tuner/programmer there that just rocks.
One hour of unlimited dyno pulls at the two places vary quite a bit with the Dyno Edge being much cheaper. However, individual runs are about equal. Besides, doing 4 0r 5 runs in an hour won't yield reproduceable results than can be tuned against. First run you have a cool engine and charge temp and everything gets hotter there after with back to back runs. To accurately tune the car all variables need to be a close to the same from run to run to accurately tune.
My choice is SpeedDreams (talk to Trip) now a days. Urist Racing & Development uses the Speed Dreams facility. If you are not familiar with Urist Racing, the are one of the top dogs in Mustang drag racing around the country.
If you want to get an idea of all the tuners here in Albuquerque, go to www.racingsouthwest.com there are forums and links to all of the tuner shops here in Albuquerque including: SpeedDreams, the Dyno Edge, & the Speedlab.
cool thanks Billy we usally go to Lubbock for the dyno but maybe i can talk my buddy into going to ALB to do it this spring we will see but thanks for the info. after my tune i just did i am hoping to see at least 330 to 340. Do you think that is pushing it. Stock i had 310
wsbrigham
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S281SC#08 said:
I was getting 365 rwhp & 405 rwt when we were all finished. Those numbers are reasonable and not pushing it IMO. I reached those numbers with the following mods:
- Chicane RIPP Kit
- Chicane 66mm Blower Pulley
- SVT Focus Fuel Pump
- SCT Custom Tune
- Ported & Polished Blower - this made s signifigant difference in HP and TQ
- Water Wetter to keep engine temp and intercooler running cooler(reduced temp by about 30 degrees) this made a signifigant difference
- Bassani X-Pipe
- Magnaflow Cat Back System
- MafterBurner Stage 1 - for minor A/F mixture adjustments
- NGK TR6 Plugs
- Plugged Blower By-Pass Vale
well we will see the new numbers come spring time maybe sooner if the wife lets me. with just the tune lets hope for 335
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