Paul Meister of
Steeda.ca is one of them. The shop is located in Milton, Ontario. He's whom I was speaking to when I'd asked if there were any other reputable tuners with his sort of certification and experience Nation wide. He explained to me that he and one other (who as I mention was out west) were of the only two Level 3 SCT certified tuners in Canada. Paul has also literally tuned hundreds and hundreds of cars as well and he too has built a rock solid reputation that’s widely known throughout most of Eastern Canada. He’s done so in the same manor that Tim Barth has, by making great power numbers, providing outstanding customer service and keeping their engines together in the process. On the two occasions I was there the parking lot was lined from one end to the other with all year EFI mustangs as well as one car sitting there that had come as far as Halifax NS and another that was trailered in from Quebec.
The thing that's really going for Tim Barth @ MPH, over a lot of the tuners in Canada is that they're located in a densely populated area where everyone and their grandmother makes a lot of money and drives some sort of "hot" (domestic or otherwise) sports car. Anytime you see any sort of street racing video running around on the net, it's usually coming from somewhere out of the cluster of Southern US states. And when you live in an area like that, it takes no time at all to build up a great reputation if you're at all competent in your craft. As a result, you're bound to get a lot of repeat business and a great reputation.
Not to mention the fact that 95% of the members on this site are US based it's no wonder that word spreads quickly throughout the board. Lets face it.....most Americans could give two ****s about what's going on in Canada, so very few of them are going to make the trip across the border to another Country to have their car tuned and as a result won’t provide the word of mouth recognition that regularly sweeps an American based board like this one....reputable shop or not.
If anyone is interested at all in knowing who the other tuner is (I'm sorry, I didn't ask his name, or the company he works for), I suggest you contact Paul at Steeda for the info. You can reach him at
[email protected]
He's an extremely nice guy and is really talented at his craft.
...or, jump onto the Tim Barth bandwagon with WOT. Tim's obviously proven himself a competent tuner and word of mouth and a slew of hot running cars certainly backs this. I'm sure you can't go wrong with either route, just don't cut the local boys short because they haven't gathered the following on the internet that others have. A booming State in the US is certainly going to generate more
quantity and more buzz than a large, wide spread Prairie province in Canada with that respect.....but that's not to say they aren't all doing the same
quality work.
