SCT Tuner HELP! =[
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SCT Tuner HELP! =[
i just bought a tuner off of someone in my town and i feel like i wasted my money. it loaded onto my car fine, its just that the tunes that came on it must be terrible. it has " 87 91 and 93 octane" as the listed tunes. i tried all 3 of them and my car feels more sluggish =[ its upsetting. i think the guy before me must have had the car tuned and now i overroad his BETTER tune. help me =.[ i need some tunes but id like them to either be free or very cheap, lol, im trying to save up money to have my gears done (the whole reason i bought the tuner to begin with). the guy installing my gears said he will load me up with tunes when he does em, but i need something to hold me over til then! wake my car up pleaseeeee
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i just bought the tuner cuz i got it cheap so i wntd to load a tune on it til i get the gears, i know wat makes sense im just impatient, lol. any places to get a tune cheaper than 75 bucks per tune? lol.
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I had a tune done in Houston, TX on and SCT 4 bank chip for $50. It was NOT a dyno tune, but the car feels as good as it ever has and I'm getting 21 mpg on the hwy. I did it mainly to get the shifts, it's an auto, right. The guys flashed I drove it, told them how it felt and they flashed it again. Did this about 5-6 times and about 1.5 hrs later, I left VERY happy. It can be done. BTW... you're gonna love the gears!
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go to brenspeed.com and get a new tune. 1 tune is 70 and i believe 3 tunes is like 125. you pick the octane.. I just got a tune from Seth at Brenspeed and I felt a night and day difference.
This is my personal opinion and they send the file ll3(or ll something) to where you can edit the file for when you get a higher gear ratio.
This is my personal opinion and they send the file ll3(or ll something) to where you can edit the file for when you get a higher gear ratio.
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it looks like i got all my money together to do the gears so im gonna just drive it as little as possible until they get done cuz the guy doin my gears said he'll load me up with some. i think i can go like 2 weeks without tearin down the streets of my town lol. thanks for all of the help though. i just assumed that the tunes that came on this tuner were actually decent, i didnt no u had to go to a dyno or buy better tunes in order to get your moneys worth. now i know lol
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Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Saint Augustine, FL
i just bought a tuner off of someone in my town and i feel like i wasted my money. it loaded onto my car fine, its just that the tunes that came on it must be terrible. it has " 87 91 and 93 octane" as the listed tunes. i tried all 3 of them and my car feels more sluggish =[ its upsetting. i think the guy before me must have had the car tuned and now i overroad his BETTER tune. help me =.[ i need some tunes but id like them to either be free or very cheap, lol, im trying to save up money to have my gears done (the whole reason i bought the tuner to begin with). the guy installing my gears said he will load me up with tunes when he does em, but i need something to hold me over til then! wake my car up pleaseeeee
I am not very familiar with the SCT system, however perhaps an SCT shop can send you some proper tunes. You may need to get a stock tune flashed at the dealership to get things straightened out.