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Ok so I contacted another tuner who tunes FiTronic: Aaron. He answered within 24 hours(How Refreshing) and was extremely helpful and looked over my map. My new OEM IAC is coming in today but as per recommendation of another user I too think that my original IAC is good so I used the original IAC that came with the car and a revision of a tune that Aaron sent me. I was finally able to get my idle dialed in without the BISS all the way in(WHICH IS PROGRESS) and hot starts are great, unfortunately cold starts are still an issue and I need to blip the throttle to keep the car from stalling out.
I guess having 12-13 degrees of timing in idle ignition cells which stock evo 8 cams is a problem. At the end of the day a business lost a customer and another gained a customer; I guess it be like that sometimes.
This forum has been warning against TSComp for quite a while, now, for various reasons. Sorry to hear you got caught up in something negative, but also glad you are making progress. FWIW, TSComp used to be really good at what he does (if you could ever get ahold of him), so I can see why you contacted him. I'm not sure what's changed now, but I wouldn't use his services even if he would return my messages.
This forum has been warning against TSComp for quite a while, now, for various reasons. Sorry to hear you got caught up in something negative, but also glad you are making progress. FWIW, TSComp used to be really good at what he does (if you could ever get ahold of him), so I can see why you contacted him. I'm not sure what's changed now, but I wouldn't use his services even if he would return my messages.
See I never was able to read anything negative about him that the problem. I know there is one thread in the tuning section that was posted as recently as last september.
I am leaving in April to go to Army OCS training so I just wanna enjoy the car for the remaining 1 month and a half. I have Ohlins/evox wheels waiting to put on and an evo 8 nose chop bumper with carbon canards/carbon inserts and a carbon lip to put on and just want to enjoy the car. After I finish training for OCS with all the schools its gonna be close to a year which at that point I should have funds for ER built street motor with Tcase and Trans upgrades. I was eyeing motors from few different shops and was leaning towards ER but since Aaron responded to my cries of help lololololol they will get my business. Only problem is that they are in Washington and I am in NJ. Ill cross that bridge once I get to it though.
See I never was able to read anything negative about him that the problem. I know there is one thread in the tuning section that was posted as recently as last september.
I am leaving in April to go to Army OCS training so I just wanna enjoy the car for the remaining 1 month and a half. I have Ohlins/evox wheels waiting to put on and an evo 8 nose chop bumper with carbon canards/carbon inserts and a carbon lip to put on and just want to enjoy the car. After I finish training for OCS with all the schools its gonna be close to a year which at that point I should have funds for ER built street motor with Tcase and Trans upgrades. I was eyeing motors from few different shops and was leaning towards ER but since Aaron responded to my cries of help lololololol they will get my business. Only problem is that they are in Washington and I am in NJ. Ill cross that bridge once I get to it though.
There hasn't been too many complaints directly aimed at tuning. Most of it has been due to his lack of communication. It started with the fact that he's infamously hard to reach both when trying to hire him and after you've paid for services. The excuse is that he's really busy, emails get lost, etc, but really: who cares? Then there was the FitTronic ordeal where the pricing was insanely high because he was the only one tuning flexfuel, along with his response when others started doing it. Only lately have I read complaints of his tuning.
He used to be one of the "go-to" guys. He still builds awesome engines, from what I've read, if you don't mind waiting indefinitely for it.
I, personally, had offered to send a block and cash to him to build an engine. After not hearing from him for a number of weeks, I went another route. About a month later, I received an email with a detailed estimate. When I told him I went elsewhere, he replied with a rather unhappy email, like it was my fault for wasting his time.
Im going to say this as clear as i can.
TSCOMP will:
Not respond to your emails.
Take your money
Only respond to your emails after you complain about him on this forum
Tell you your car is broke and needs more parts
Tell you that the parts on your car are junk
Tell you that "you dont know what your doing".
On... and On... and On.....
Why anyone would want to deal with that jerk is beyond me.
Its funny because after I told him to lower the ignition cells for the idle so that I could idle lower and set my idle without my biss all the way in he told me not to nitpick **** and criticize a professional tuner. Low and behold another professional tuner did exactly that and it worked. There is a recent thread about him in the tuning section. It was posted 2 days before I dropped the car off and then posts a few days/week in talked about a lot of red flags that people dealt with, with him. If I only saw it sooner...
Why anyone would want to deal with that jerk is beyond me.
To be fair, he USED to be a better resource. Just lately....
Originally Posted by TomekEVO
Its funny because after I told him to lower the ignition cells for the idle so that I could idle lower and set my idle without my biss all the way in he told me not to nitpick **** and criticize a professional tuner. Low and behold another professional tuner did exactly that and it worked. There is a recent thread about him in the tuning section. It was posted 2 days before I dropped the car off and then posts a few days/week in talked about a lot of red flags that people dealt with, with him. If I only saw it sooner...
Again, good that you got it sorted, finally. Sometimes we gotta eat it and move on. Hopefully it's completely resolved soon. Good luck, dude!
For as long as I can remember, TSComp had communication issues. And that's a problem for a being a tuner, because you need to be able to reach them when the car isn't running right.
Cold start on speed density is hard.
I'm glad Aaron was able to get your car running much better. I'm sure he'll get it even more dialed in.
I have a friend that's having the same cold start issues with Toms tune. He has to tap the gas a few time to keep it from stalling.
Thats odd he told me "He never experienced my problem before and he tuned over 1200 cars" Would you be able to PM me his username or get me in contact with him?
I saw in a thread the stock tehpra values for my rom were the same in the ipw multiplier vs coolant temps #1 and #2 tables, mine differentiated one was very high the other one was stock values. First set of tables on the left. So I just reverted to the original tehpra values that I saw in the thread and made them the same for both tables.. First set of tables #2 table(with the star) was copied into the first table. Cranked the car and it shut off immediately(usually it ran for 6-9 seconds). I figured I was on the right track in this moment. So next I copied the high values in the #1 table I had and pasted into the #2 table. Middle set of tables. Fired up the car and it stayed on. Next step is to fire the car up on a completely cold car not that it wasn't today since it shut off a second after running and then mess with the values since the values are pretty high and figure out the sweet spots that keep the car running. Hopefully the last set of tables will work for me, I got them from another person who was tuned by Tom he has 1600 injectors so I might be able to lower them. I will keep tinkering with the values to see what works best
This feels amazing!
edit: The first set of table labels shouldn't say idle but cold start as all of these have to do with cold starts
Feb 5, 2019, 04:07 PM
