Megan TBE installed with TTP flash!
If money is an issue why buy an Evo, or even mod one for that matter. People keep buying Evos that they can't afford. The classifieds are full of them. "06 IX SSL $26K must sell".
You don't have to own a dyno to get a custom dyno tune. I drove quite a distance to get my car tuned properly. Totally worth every bit of the $500 I paid and it's tuned to my car's mods for my car only.
You don't have to own a dyno to get a custom dyno tune. I drove quite a distance to get my car tuned properly. Totally worth every bit of the $500 I paid and it's tuned to my car's mods for my car only.
We hold the world record fastest stock turbo trapspeed without dynotuning.
10.92@129.94mph
If you have better record times through dynotuning, please share your firsthand experiences. Otherwise please drive through.
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Dynotuning is the waste of money. Unless the car is has so much power that safety is a concern, the dyno is all show.
We hold the world record fastest stock turbo trapspeed without dynotuning.
10.92@129.94mph
If you have better record times through dynotuning, please share your firsthand experiences. Otherwise please drive through.
We hold the world record fastest stock turbo trapspeed without dynotuning.
10.92@129.94mph
If you have better record times through dynotuning, please share your firsthand experiences. Otherwise please drive through.
If money is an issue why buy an Evo, or even mod one for that matter. People keep buying Evos that they can't afford. The classifieds are full of them. "06 IX SSL $26K must sell".
You don't have to own a dyno to get a custom dyno tune. I drove quite a distance to get my car tuned properly. Totally worth every bit of the $500 I paid and it's tuned to my car's mods for my car only.
You don't have to own a dyno to get a custom dyno tune. I drove quite a distance to get my car tuned properly. Totally worth every bit of the $500 I paid and it's tuned to my car's mods for my car only.
I make good money (hopefully most Evo owners do, just maintaining a performance car eats at the wallet), but I like to be stingy with it when possible. This is one of those possible times. Will the email tune be super-hyper-dead-on-most-hp-output? Not likely. Will it be pretty dang close? Yeah. The law of diminishing returns comes into play with the rest of the $250+ dollars (unless your email tuner and the resulting tune sucks).
So I now have a car custom tuned (not to your standards, but custom tuned nonetheless), a company standing behind their flash willing to make readjustments as part of the original price, I don't have to drive hours if I ever need a retune or this tune isn't working out, and a minimum of $250 extra dollars (in your case that'd be $450, this idea is starting to sell itself) in my pocket to get a hooker, buy another mod, invest, or to set on fire. Don't even get me started on the "lost opportunity cost" that extra $450+ ends up costing you over time, had you invested it or just put it in savings. Econ 101 anyone?
Seriously though, just because someone has this car doesn't mean they can't shop around for a good deal that suits their needs.
Last edited by Shadowpriest; Aug 14, 2007 at 07:34 PM.
The extra $250 can go to a winter tune when the weather changes. Than he'll have both for $500, that can be can be loaded onto the ECU at will. Whereas you will be driving again to the dyno dropping another $500.
I still say hookers is the way to go. It's the cheapest girlfriend you can have. Think about it...
This is where basic communication skills own people. I didn't say I, or anyone else that owns an Evo and goes the Email flash route, couldn't afford a tune. That's not the point. I said "money doesn't grow on trees", not "I don't have any". Just because you HAVE the money (and are willing to drive hours to a tuner when I can get mine retuned without leaving the house) doesn't mean you have to spend it, get it?
I make good money (hopefully most Evo owners do, just maintaining a performance car eats at the wallet), but I like to be stingy with it when possible. This is one of those possible times. Will the email tune be super-hyper-dead-on-most-hp-output? Not likely. Will it be pretty dang close? Yeah. The law of diminishing returns comes into play with the rest of the $250+ dollars (unless your email tuner and the resulting tune sucks).
So I now have a car custom tuned (not to your standards, but custom tuned nonetheless), a company standing behind their flash willing to make readjustments as part of the original price, I don't have to drive hours if I ever need a retune or this tune isn't working out, and a minimum of $250 extra dollars (in your case that'd be $450, this idea is starting to sell itself) in my pocket to get a hooker, buy another mod, invest, or to set on fire. Don't even get me started on the "lost opportunity cost" that extra $450+ ends up costing you over time, had you invested it or just put it in savings. Econ 101 anyone?
Seriously though, just because someone has this car doesn't mean they can't shop around for a good deal that suits their needs.
I make good money (hopefully most Evo owners do, just maintaining a performance car eats at the wallet), but I like to be stingy with it when possible. This is one of those possible times. Will the email tune be super-hyper-dead-on-most-hp-output? Not likely. Will it be pretty dang close? Yeah. The law of diminishing returns comes into play with the rest of the $250+ dollars (unless your email tuner and the resulting tune sucks).
So I now have a car custom tuned (not to your standards, but custom tuned nonetheless), a company standing behind their flash willing to make readjustments as part of the original price, I don't have to drive hours if I ever need a retune or this tune isn't working out, and a minimum of $250 extra dollars (in your case that'd be $450, this idea is starting to sell itself) in my pocket to get a hooker, buy another mod, invest, or to set on fire. Don't even get me started on the "lost opportunity cost" that extra $450+ ends up costing you over time, had you invested it or just put it in savings. Econ 101 anyone?
Seriously though, just because someone has this car doesn't mean they can't shop around for a good deal that suits their needs.
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