I was going to put this in the newbies forum but decided against it against my better judgment.
I want to learn to tune. I'm a hands on type learner, and I'd like to purchase HPT Pro to practice on my car with. Obviously I'd start off relatively small, and seeing as my car has an intake, and in the near future will probably get a 62MM TB, and possibly an HO Eco Intake Mani (I know I'd have to upgrade my injectors or I'll start leaning out), I can't imagine there's much to do. I suppose I could try to advance my timing a bit so running a higher octane will yield something, and cleaning up some stuff a bit.
What do you guys recommend? Waste of money for somebody like me? I really just want to jump in there and (carefully) start messing around. It'd be nice to get a little gain, but not really necessary as it's more of a learning situation for me.
Thanks.
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Look thru the tuning forum where this should have been posted and on the first page you'll find the answers to your questions. It called "You were all right -- I quit. "
I'll help you out cause I'm feeling nice right now and give you an excerpt:
geeky wrote:So I asked whether HP Tuners was worth it on a stock Cavalier. You told me "probably not".
Survey Says: Pretty much true.
I was able to:
a) Spend a month waiting for them to write support for my car into the program
b) Run a Crank Position relearn, which for some reason my car randomly decided it required after I had the battery disconnected. That went fine.
c) Increase my idle speed / Reduce idle vibration / Get my HO alternator to produce at idle
d) Set more aggressive partial-throttle shift speeds, keep the revs up a bit and make car seem more responsive
Not bad for a start -- but I've decided that I'm going to leave it at that. The potential is there to do quite a bit more if I committed myself and/or started throwing some decent upgrades at the car, but the investment in time and parts is something that, in retrospect, I never really intended to go through with.
Besides, I think by the time I sell HP Tuners, I'll have gotten a pretty good price for a CASE relearn (which for me would have meant a shop visit) and basic tune.
Basically, this is a thinly veiled cross-posting advertisement (link removed) . Someone could save quite a bit of money on the Standard Suite, just because I'm an impulsive shopper. Sounds like a good deal, no?
if you want to learn to tune, its a great place to start.
when you have the pro edition a lot of people want you to tune their cars.
in the end, for a Jbody its going to be wasted money.. but its a good tool to learn with and on a relatively stock car there's a bigger cushion for error and major engine damage.
ALTHOUGH you do still need to be careful when tuning with it... but it IS a good learning tool, however in the long run it will end up being a waste.. you could chock it up to learning experience.
and if you ever come across an LS1/2 powered vehicle HPT lets you pretty much do ANYTHING with them.
Thanks guys. From what I gathered it's basically a waste even as a learning experience until I get a hold of a car that I can actually do something with HPT with. I'm not planning on building an N/A monster either, so by the time I'd need tuning, it's out of HPTs comfort level on J's anyway. Thanks.
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