unfortunately, if the problem is due to something being installed incorrectly, we will most likely never hear about it...if he sets all this up, drives 12 hours to buschur only to find out it was his own fault he probably wont be coming on here to tell us it was b/c he installed something wrong

in all honestly, it probably is the flash...i myself had basically the same mods that this guy has and had an XEDE with a base map. The car felt pretty slow and dyno'd pretty poorly...it wasnt until Shiv came out to the East Coast and dyno tuned the car that i was truly happy with my mods. I gained almost 40whp on pump and 60whp on race gas just from the custom tune

i then added a few more parts to the car, didnt really notice a difference...had John (jestrtuning) come up and tune the car again...and gained about another 15whp from that tune

i personally feel that if you want to continue to mod your car by adding bolt-on parts, that you need to do some research, buy a laptop and ECU cable, a wideband and knock buffer, and gradually learn how to tune yourself. You should definitely get a custom tune now...but if you keep adding parts to the car, you are just going to be in the same boat as you are right now. But you being at least 8 hours from the nearest tuner and unable to organize a group tune, your best bet is to learn how to do it yourself... my 2c