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What all cars have you dynoed personally?

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I've honestly "tuned" or assisted in tuning, about 1/2 half of the cars on this board, at one point or another.
Since John worked at Elite, he had a hand in MANY cars and the tuning of them.
Due to the fact that we are just buying a dyno now, many vehicles have been street tuned ( I know, tsk tsk, not safe), or on other people's dyno's (Elite, RS-Motors, Hi-Tech Motorsports, and that one place in BFE john went to).
The street tuned cars were done 90% of the time on our own wideband.
Some of the "highlights"
Johns Galant, 423whp, 22psi, pump gas, EMS. Cira early 2003. That was with that "monster" 60 trim he ran.
John's talon, 516whp 454tq, S-AFC and Maf-T, same setup. Again that "super cool" 60 trim.
Then we switched to the EMS and got 532whp and 500ft/lbs torque.
Scott's 2.4 2g with no boost to redline (aka 30psi by 4k, 20psi by redline, no downpipe, gotta love that "Huge ass" scm61 with the stage 3 wheel he has)
476whp, 523tq. Dsmlink, and we just "gave up" tuning it as the boost wasn't there. The peak power and torque was at less than 25psi.
Carry's 2g was fun on Rs Motors dyno. I think I had 420whp by 4k? and again at 7k? Gotta love spark blowout on stock wires.
90% of Barton's setup we can lay claim to. (He has gotton REALLY REALLY good at tuning since moving to Flordia). We use to help him when he lived around here.
I remember we street tuned Marcus's car. That car "ripped" at 18psi on pump gas (woot a Mutt turbo!)
The point is, we've tuned enough backasswards setups to know when "enough is enough".
And we've tuned enough "good setups" to wish we had a dyno to play on all day. Which we now do :).

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Also, we are more than welcome to having people tune their own vehicles. Tune it yourself, bring a tuner, we don't care.

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This board has 870 members, are you really saying you have tuned half of them? John didn't have much to do with actual tuning at Elite, besides his own car.

When I was doing IT work back in the 90s and early 2000s, I was also tuning cars on the street, like you guys have been the last few years. I used to do all the street datalogging and crap also. Me, Steve and some of the other older school guys spent plenty of nights and weekends making tuning runs at Red Rock and other industrial parks before we even had the luxury of widebands. My car made 400whp on pump gas at 22psi back in 2001 and 460whp on race gas at 25psi.

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What car did you assist tuning a Motec? What version was it? Was it a high end version or a lower version like a M4 or M48? They are really high end systems, the same system that Rau runs.

Motec has some really cool stuff out there for a price. Gotta love technology.

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Motec wouldn't be so bad if there components and add on's weren't so damn expensive. I looked @ one for my IS and all said and done it was over $6k.

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How many of them acutally post. How many of these members have been here more than once? I think what swanny is trying to say is that he has tuned probably half of the "O.G.'s" cars.

The dudes everyone knows or knows of.

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My 1G made 416whp on 19 psi, 92 oct in 2002, what do i win?

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LOL, I didn't look at the member base. Okay, I'd probably say I've "assisted" in 1/2 of the active members on here? I forget we get a few members signed up a day that never post, just want to play in the arcade.
I wasn't trying to be-little your tuning shane at all! I was just stating that we aren't exactly "new" to the community and have been around nearly as long as the original "old school" guys. We were part of the 2nd wave of now "old school" members, about 1-2 years after the original guys (you, hill, Kris Ali, Shindley, etc).
John meant that he helped via giving input if he had any, and learning stuff off you. I would say we actually "know" all the mitsubishi related tuning software. Some of the other stuff (split second, motec, emanage) have been a few sucessful encounters, but far from "knowing" it like I know those damm S-AFC's, dsmlink's, and EMS's.
I've done pulls at Red Rock before without widebands before, those buggers were EXPENSIVE! Even for the DIY kits! Narrow band tuning, IDC logging, and 02 monitoring was the rocksaurs I tell you. Then going back to NABR and seeing what others were getting. Hell I remembe when you (or was it Hill?) vouched for me back in 2001 as a "member". Then I got dropped due to AOL owning all, and NABR not liking it (I didn't like it as well!).
By the "first" I ment out of the privateer within our "group". The older school members (like yourself) never posted or talked to us "noobs". Within our "cult" of people, AKA the dsmstyle guys we play poker with, the applebee's/KK members, etc...we were the first to 400whp on pump.
All I was saying is that we've been around as privateers tuning.
Don't worry, you still have me by about....2000 dyno hours? LOL.

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A cookie and a piece of pizza or a hot dog if you come to our opening party in April ;).

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I have a dumb question.

Why do you work on DSM's? Why wouldn't you work on all kinds of performance cars? Isn't there a large base of GM and Ford guys around?

Just askin'.

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Because DSM's ALWAYS break :).
We do service all types of imports. Mitsubishi, Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Subaru. There is a HUGE base of GM and Ford vehicles in the Twin cities, and about a dozen shops to service them.
We also do stuff with diesel trucks. Its just that currently, all the owners have either a Diesel truck, or a Mitsu.

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It's usually better to do one thing and do it well, then to be a jack of all trades and master of none. For me that means putting most of my effort into EFI tuning(I don't care import or domestic) and not trying to be a master engine builder, chassis/roll cage fabricator, etc. I build my own motors and some customer motors, but I never tried to push it on people and would give them other options with other shops.

There are already quite a few, well established Chevy and Ford performance shops in the area.

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That works for me!

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Very well put. Thats why everyone has a "nitch" within our company. It allows us to offer a variety of services, which allows us to control all aspects of a build.
What is your take on the sofware commonly used on Domestic Vehicles? Is it similar to the import/universal stuff?
I figure if anyone with a high HP domestic is using our dyno, they are bringing a tuner, so I am not even going to bother touching those.

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Hah, I remember Shane and I testing one of his setups on an industrial road up by my house in BP. I'd operate the G-tech and we'd make a pass and make some adjustments. Ahh the good old days.

BTW, I've been doing the DSM thing since 1997, there wasn't much of a scene at the time. There was only about three people that I know of here that were around in the 90's.

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1997?
WOW! We started with DSM's in 2000. I'd call us "2nd wave". We started with cars in general in about 1997.
Woot, 8th grade rocked! (1997).

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98 for me, got my 1st DSM when i was a sophmore in high school. Im sure some of you old schooler may remember it from back in the day. First time we ever went to Rock Falls we met Norm and stayed @ his place. Got damn that was a long ass time ago.

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As far as the low hp wars go, I have a truck that could decimate all... It's an '86 nissan 4x4 that can hardly make it to 50 by the end of most freeway entrance ramps with the pedal to the floor... haha

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Oh, btw... Congrats on the shop expansion. I haven't been to your place yet, but it sounds like you have a pretty sweet place:)

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Thanks.
The "before" pictures are all up, or rather of the current shop, on the website. We'll be taking pictures throughout the build, dyno install, and other updates as we go along.

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Ya I'm part of the 2nd wave, also a part of the 2nd hand shopper. I've probably bought 1/4 of shanes parts off his car over the years. Starting with his 20G and Greddy Small FMIC back in 1999 when I bought my 1996 GS-T.

John and Josh have been helping tune my cars ever since. Shanes always been the man on the dyno for me and typically has always found more power then our street tuning ever did. But then again I never went up there with the exact settings the LSE boys put together for me. Same with Shanes tuning I'd say the actual dyno tuning on my car last's about a day. I'm always messing with it. But that's just me. I try to learn as much as I can through watching what they were all doing while tuning my car. Then messed with it on my own, That's actually how I learned how to work on my car as well. I watch and then try it myself. But for me it's important to get that initial tune that way I have a good platform to start with.

I always saved the settings before I start messing around that way I can always revert back if needed. I'm by for no expert on tuning, hell I couldn't even tell you the theory about any of it. I just know a little. Kind of like playing a piano for me. Never taken lessons but I can still play a few songs from watching others play them.

Anyrate I can vouch for the red rock thing I know shanes, hill, have a few years on us. But there were plenty of times in my early years that Nash, myself and the LSE boys would hang out at Red Rock or DCTC from 8pm-6am.

I'm mean come on I know most of you have seen all the really stupid street video's I made in my early DSM years. I made every one that ever came over to my house watch them. Hell I probably made them watching every time they came over hehehe.

Anyways enough rambling about memories. Like my wife says stop talking about the past and make some new memories/story's that you can tell. Look forward to making some new ones once I get my car back up to Tech. I've got everything I need now. Just have to put it together this weekend. I still have 1/2 tank of 116oct to go out and tune.

I've been seeing a sweet as 03/04 Saleen that keeps crusing by my work Hopefully I'll catch him one of these days and get it on tape. I also now have 2x 03/04 cobras in my complex that I can't wait to beat on.

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Sounds like the shop is only doing better and better. You guys will probably be the guys to work on my car this Spring when I get all the parts and everything else I need. I was suppose to have it done last Fall, but ran into other problems. I also can't wait to get my car dyno'd when it's up and running good again. An hour's worth of driving isnt so bad for me :D. I gotta start learning a little bit about tuning myself, so I wont have to pay other people do to it for me all the time.

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When I first read the topic for the thread, I thought it said you are "expecting" than I reread it. Good luck!

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Well we are expecting ;) something expensive, so it kinda counts.
And it'll cost about the same only we pay it up front ;).

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LOL..I hope you like the new place.