The Buschur 20GLT/AMS 2.3/280's/Meth. My writeup.
I say he can do it, if anyone can.........Don't sweat the exact #, I am not about that during a tune anyway. It is ABOUT THE TUNE, PERIOD!
Dyno's vary, and you can get any number you want to show up on the screen, if you "fudge" stuff. Dave doesn't do that, but they are out there somewhere. Lets not open that debate/can of worms again.
Anyway, as far as getting an AEM/EMS, that sounds like an idea, but since my wife "allows" me to do one major mod per year, I say I stick with the ECU being tuned for now, or else my nuts will become a door knocker outside my home. Can't let that happen, my nuts look good in the jar on the mantel.
I say my project this year will be the "Green" turbo, tuned on the ECU, and over this coming winter, I work on the head ("Freshen up, or build it). I will also have to ditch the stock airbox, and go back to the cone, and the UICP from you guys also. I read somewhere it is hard to tune the 280's on the stock ECU. Will see how it turns out. You can just bump up my idle RPM to 5K, that way it won't stall. Just random thoughts......................more later, after I talk to David.
Dyno's vary, and you can get any number you want to show up on the screen, if you "fudge" stuff. Dave doesn't do that, but they are out there somewhere. Lets not open that debate/can of worms again. Anyway, as far as getting an AEM/EMS, that sounds like an idea, but since my wife "allows" me to do one major mod per year, I say I stick with the ECU being tuned for now, or else my nuts will become a door knocker outside my home. Can't let that happen, my nuts look good in the jar on the mantel.
I say my project this year will be the "Green" turbo, tuned on the ECU, and over this coming winter, I work on the head ("Freshen up, or build it). I will also have to ditch the stock airbox, and go back to the cone, and the UICP from you guys also. I read somewhere it is hard to tune the 280's on the stock ECU. Will see how it turns out. You can just bump up my idle RPM to 5K, that way it won't stall.
Just random thoughts......................more later, after I talk to David.
ONE major mod per year? Dude, look at your modlist!!! I mean yea, the car is an '03 but damn! You obviously have the same definition of 'not very much' or 'cheap' as I give my wife! A great example of that is the SMC alky kit I bought and installed at the same time as installing my HKS 280's which, by the way, idle fine on the stock ECU.
A great example of that is the SMC alky kit I bought and installed at the same time as installing my HKS 280's which, by the way, idle fine on the stock ECU.
ONE major mod per year? Dude, look at your modlist!!! I mean yea, the car is an '03 but damn! You obviously have the same definition of 'not very much' or 'cheap' as I give my wife! A great example of that is the SMC alky kit I bought and installed at the same time as installing my HKS 280's which, by the way, idle fine on the stock ECU.
A great example of that is the SMC alky kit I bought and installed at the same time as installing my HKS 280's which, by the way, idle fine on the stock ECU. We all have to use some excuse for the significant other. I was encoraged to do one mod per year. I still have to get my TC back from Jon at TRE, so that would actually be 2 mods this year. (Turbo and TC)
I won't go into the way it makes more power. There are guys getting around the stock ECU features that keeps the stock ECU from making power. I don't care to do it. There is for SURE a power difference in removing the MAF, as a matter of fact I just had a car here a few weeks ago, Kjewer, and dyno the car for him. I was complaining that he had the AEM on the car with speed density and still sucking through the factory MAF. He agree to remove the MAF. The car INSTANTLY gained 10 whp with NO changes at all. I was able to further tune it with the MAF restriction gone to make even more.
