I dont understand why people are so scared to tune personally. Even the pros had to start somewhere. The only way to learn on the hard stuff is to practice on the hard stuff. Commando is fully capable of getting pretty much anything running right, you just have to be able to do it yourself. You will build a motor, do all the mechanical work in the world, but not spend some time to make it all work? Does not make much sense to me.

 

mike, how good are you at computer stuff and theory? Personally that's what i'm best at.

I think that you can do it just fine mike.

 

This banter is great. I'm still 50/50 and I appreciate both sides to the argument. I'm a nerd...need I say more?

I'm still going to talk to Bob but I'm also going to call HMS and see about this Cam thing that Ox referred to.

 

Mike... i voted no, you said once you finish your motor you are done with the car and are probably going to move on to another project.. why buy a the sniper, just to learn how to use it, and then tune your car and never use it again.. seems retarded to me, i say go to kurgan and get that thing tuned and be done with it

 

One thing you have to look at also Mike: When you pay for a tune your only paying for that one session. If you ever need anything changed, get your wallet ready(for most places anyways).

 

if your a nerd, and you like learning this stuff, I would strongly recommend going with Sniper and tuning yourself.

Personally I found it rewarding since I didn't do all of the work myself, at least I was able to tune it.

And for new stuff, it helps that I can make small changes and then tune it myself without spending a ton on dyno time.

 

Have any of you guys use the SCT PRP software?

 

Iv dabbled with it. It is not as user friendly as sniper products but it does the same thing. The SCT software expects that you know everything right off the bat.

 

I have been to the dyno twice for changes and had a number of tunes sent to me by 2 different tuners and have so far spent $375 on tuning. But since the first tuner couldn't get the tune right I have to pay $450 to another tuner to get it right then try to get my money back from the other. But with haveing to go to 2 different tuners I still only sent about the same as buying sniper and commando.

No I have done around 20 cars with sniper and defiantly made my money back for buying it.

 

Iv tuned a few cars with sniper also. I made my money back the second tune haha. gotta love it.