How you have tuned car after rebuild?
06-10-2011, 02:50 PM
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Car: Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z,96 Vette
Engine: 350 5.7 Liter
Transmission: 700r
How you have tuned car after rebuild?
I rebuilt the top of the motor and replaced the old intake with the stealth ram, camshaft with a comp 503 and cast iron heads with aluminum patriot heads with 1:6 rockers. Now the car runs like any untuned car does and was wondering how you guys made it run good.
06-10-2011, 07:06 PM
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straightline performance in new lenox I think can still make chips for people. Best bet would be to call them and ask, full dyno tune is probably $500.
Don't know anyone local at all who does these ancient computers anymore besides them. Everyone swaps to aftermarket EFI if they really want to dial in a tune. It's like trying to connect to the internet with a 14.4 modem compared to cable internet now.
Don't know anyone local at all who does these ancient computers anymore besides them. Everyone swaps to aftermarket EFI if they really want to dial in a tune. It's like trying to connect to the internet with a 14.4 modem compared to cable internet now.
06-10-2011, 07:53 PM
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Car: Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z,96 Vette
Engine: 350 5.7 Liter
Transmission: 700r
Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
[QUOTE=xpndbl3;4948052]straightline performance in new lenox I think can still make chips for people. Best bet would be to call them and ask, full dyno tune is probably $500.
Don't know anyone local at all who does these ancient computers anymore besides them. Everyone swaps to aftermarket EFI if they really want to dial in a tune. It's like trying to connect to the internet with a 14.4 modem compared to cable internet now.[/QUOTE}
Do you think getting it tuned by this guy is best or get the hardware and do it myself is best?
Don't know anyone local at all who does these ancient computers anymore besides them. Everyone swaps to aftermarket EFI if they really want to dial in a tune. It's like trying to connect to the internet with a 14.4 modem compared to cable internet now.[/QUOTE}
Do you think getting it tuned by this guy is best or get the hardware and do it myself is best?
06-11-2011, 12:51 AM
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no clue, i'm a carb guy....it's much easier to make power with a carb 
Call him and feel him out, or drive out there and talk with him and see what you think. Personally it's a dead computer system and I would have swapped to something newer or carb. Maybe the guys in the tuning board can help, I have never stepped foot in that section.
Call him and feel him out, or drive out there and talk with him and see what you think. Personally it's a dead computer system and I would have swapped to something newer or carb. Maybe the guys in the tuning board can help, I have never stepped foot in that section.
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Engine: 385 sbc
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Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
You should totally buy that holley commander w/wb02 upgrade that wanab03ss is selling..
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Car: Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z,96 Vette
Engine: 350 5.7 Liter
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Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
Cool! So I order a chip and the software to read the car and he can tune the car to run and if needs adjustments i send him the readings and he tells me what to change? Sorry when it comes to tuning these car they confuse me alot.
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Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
WIDEBAND 02...It is a must for any real tuning....my advice would be to pay the 500 for the tune.
06-14-2011, 07:01 PM
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If not, find a GOOD shop and pay the $$$ for a tune. Make sure they are doing street AND dyno tuning. WOT tuning is much quicker than part throttle tuning.
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Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
Leave the tunning for the tuners. If it was easy everyone would tune there own car 
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Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
[QUOTE=xpndbl3;4948268]no clue, i'm a carb guy....it's much easier to make power with a carb
Carbs are a little different than EFI steve.
Carbs are a little different than EFI steve.
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Car: Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z,96 Vette
Engine: 350 5.7 Liter
Transmission: 700r
Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
I said at a holiday inn years ago so Ill be good haha. I have had to take the intake of because of a vaccum leak so I sometime to research some of these guys. Thanks for the help so far.
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Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
Haltech and a night or two driving around... easiest thing I've ever done to the car actually...
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Car: 87 GTA
Engine: 385 sbc
Transmission: 700r4
Axle/Gears: 2.73 posi
Re: How you have tuned car after rebuild?
then you may as well get the matching ecu
....j/k.... Seriously though a wideband is a must,,,, I was tuning my car off a narrowband and once I got the w/b bung installed it showed me how inconsistant a narrowband really is...... good luck with the project and keep us updated
....j/k.... Seriously though a wideband is a must,,,, I was tuning my car off a narrowband and once I got the w/b bung installed it showed me how inconsistant a narrowband really is...... good luck with the project and keep us updated 
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