I actually have a Tweecer RT a friend of mine loaned me....he was going to use it on his fox (which is what it was purchased for) and he's now going with SCT. I know absolutely positively NOTHING about tuning or where to even start. Will the Tweecer RT for fox work on sn95's? I wouldn't be against tuning my car or "tweaking" it if it's me attempting to learn how to use the system, I'm just trying to avoid ridiculous local shop rates to tune a car, and the results with the cars that roll in and out vary by about 50%. Half walk away happy and the other half of the cars are flatbedded to another shop to start over. Any recommendations on what I should look at if I decided to play around with a tuner?
(I'm not trying to be all over the place here...just ambitious and indecisive!)
I can only speak for me and why I wanted to self tune
I've always liked seeing what makes things tick
That lead me to my interest in cars and hot rodding them
Its satisfying when "I" make a plan for more power
and
It works as planned because "I" did the work
None of the above would happen for me unless "I" did it.......
not
Someone else that might do it
For years now ... That has been my experience with working on cars
Then ... I got back in the hobby after being away for a while
I saw how a little silver box controlled things
I saw how that box allowed you to have the following:
great power
great drivability
great gas milage
and more
I then saw where peeps were just starting to learn how to break
Ford's code and take control of the programming in that little box
I was naturally very intrigued by that whole idea
From all my past experience with hot rods, I knew the basics about
optimizing fuel and spark to work efficiently with upgraded parts.
It was so obvious to me ... it was the same as when I was a kid
hosing around with jets in the carb for fuel & re-curving dizzys for
spark ... except ... for my 95 ... I would be able to do those things
in that little silver box ... that is ... after I learned what made it tick.
Now ... my reason for saying all that is ....
Do you relate to any of that kind of thinking
If so ... You might like self tuning
You talk about some get a good tune
and
Some don't
I wanna be in total control of my car
and
Since I turn the wrenches and tune it as well ... I am
I won't say that guy in Grady's garage always has total knowledge
but
Whether its
or
I know I can control the outcome
Anything I don't understand ... many others have done it before
and the answer is easily found from my notes by them or I can
find the info with a simple search.
I can safely say ... "I've never got a bad tune in Grady's garage"
so
I don't have to take a risk or chance ... cause ... I have control
Now ... I make all that sound so good ... don't I
I really have enjoyed learning a new skill
and
Putting it to good use on my little 95GT
But ... You talked about ridiculous shop rates
Here is where self tuning is not all that great
The amount of money you gotta lay out is kinda ridiculous like those rates
when you look at a complete package to self tune your Stang
To me a complete package consists of:
hardware & software to manipulate pcm values
hardware & software to gather and store real time data
hardware & software to gather and store real time wide band data
software to help with data analysis
You are gonna be looking at around 1 Grand minimum to do the above
Notice how I did not pick one tuning method over another
I wanted to kind of give you a feel for what its like to self tune
cause
You'll have to invest some time, money, and brain cells .......
No matter which method you would choose to use
Grady