Modification Regrets?
for me 
We were blamed for incorrect install of an Autometer wideband. In the end a week later, LilRico called Autometer and they told him he formatted his SD card in the wrong format and its why it didn't work. Once he rectified his mistake, it worked perfectly.
As far as the tuning, two days after it and his ranting and raving about how he smoked an STi with 4 people in his car, (I still have all the emails saved BTW) he went to the track and couldn't drive it. He burned his stock clutch to the ground in the first 1500 miles.
Power doesn't instantly turn a car in to an instant timeslip and it was a lesson hard learned.
Lilrico's times were lacking as this was one of his first stickshift cars and he couldn't drive well. He raised the boost AFTER the car was tuned and took it out of tune.
Then he turned it back down and continued to screw with it.
He then took it to 4 different shops that took things off, put them back etc continuing to screw with the car.
Lastly he landed at another local Mustang Dyno shop which turned the boost all the way down, dynoed the TTP tune at wastegate pressure and told him he needed a Jestr tune.
Jestr "tuned" the car, ran the dyno again. The mysterious results were never given. They raised the boost 10psi, printed him a before and after dynosheet and told him "Look at the awesome work! you gained 86tq!". Anyone knowledgeble about dynos and performance knows that boost = tq.
I hope by this time after becoming more knowledgable about the Evo that he realizes what happened.
In the end we were aggravated by being blamed for installing his Autometer gauge wrong, when in fact he formatted the SD card wrong, rendering it useless. Then found out about this ordeal with the tuning through reading it on a forum instead of contacting us with any questions or concerns about his tune.
Jestr is a great guy and we are happy he found someone he believes in.
Best of luck.
TTP
Last edited by TTP Engineering; Sep 13, 2008 at 05:00 PM.
some good stuff in this forum. As far as regrets for me, I can't think of any right now. I love my car. I have an exedy stage one right now and it's still in the break in process, but I did get on a few times (probably shouldn't have) and had a hard time getting into 4th. Dunno if that was lock out, but it seems to be shifting smoother and I love the feel of it.
So far so good. Lets see were it goes from here.
So far so good. Lets see were it goes from here.
wow I mean wow, first off the guy didnt slam you and then you guys come on in here and slam him. What kind of stuff are you trying to pull. Yeah he said the tune didnt work out but he didnt say that you didnt know what you were doing or anything bad. I think you owe this guy an apology for the harseness you just dealt him.
wow I mean wow, first off the guy didnt slam you and then you guys come on in here and slam him. What kind of stuff are you trying to pull. Yeah he said the tune didnt work out but he didnt say that you didnt know what you were doing or anything bad. I think you owe this guy an apology for the harseness you just dealt him.
wow I mean wow, first off the guy didnt slam you and then you guys come on in here and slam him. What kind of stuff are you trying to pull. Yeah he said the tune didnt work out but he didnt say that you didnt know what you were doing or anything bad. I think you owe this guy an apology for the harseness you just dealt him.
I'm with you on that one.
I only have 2 regrets, first is not waiting for a WW IX, but when my gsx was totalled I needed a car so I couldn't really wait for one to come along unfortunately. Second is not calling up buschur racing and asking if their standard core intercooler would line up correctly with their licp. I got it to fit but you can see the pipe hanging under the car right behind the front lip.
This is incorrect. The car never went quicker or faster than with ttp. Even with additional parts and custom tuning our performance at the track was unmatched until larger Evogreen and a multitude of other parts and methanol injection were added.
A lot of incorrect info here.. 1st the car ran a 12.7 with JestR's tune and 4 MPH's quicker. Your tune allowed me to go 13's all day long with a 1.7/ 1.8 60ft. Don't come here and say that it was unmatched until I added parts because both you and JestR had the same exact platform to tune with and not a single part was added, it was the same set-up, okay, so don't say meth, EVOgreen (which I never owned one), and other bs because it's not true. You needed 26 PSI to get the results and it took JestR 22 PSI. Meth went in my car 4 months after these encounters, so try again...
We were blamed for incorrect install of an Autometer wideband. In the end a week later, LilRico called Autometer and they told him he formatted his SD card in the wrong format and its why it didn't work. Once he rectified his mistake, it worked perfectly.
I called you and you said call Autometer, so you did nothing, yeah I found out that I had the wrong format with the SD card, but guess what, it still wasn't functional.... Yeah the firmware update made it light up, but it still wasn't reading... In the morning this is what I was left with
Please go on and say I did that...
As far as the tuning, two days after it and his ranting and raving about how he smoked an STi with 4 people in his car, (I still have all the emails saved BTW) he went to the track and couldn't drive it. He burned his stock clutch to the ground in the first 1500 miles.
1st off, the clutch died at 2,500, so what? Lets dig into this more... Shall I post the map I had from you? You want to see the gaps in the map again or how you jumped in timing? You know why my car was going slow? Knock... Ain't that some stuff... At first everything seemed fine, but after so much knock the octane rating on the ECU went down and the car automatically started pulling timing... So... It's going to go slower and slower as the knock keeps happening... That's why over time the car become more and more of a pig... Have you learned that yet?
Power doesn't instantly turn a car in to an instant timeslip and it was a lesson hard learned.
Something you should be learning with your dyno
Lilrico's times were lacking as this was one of his first stickshift cars and he couldn't drive well. He raised the boost AFTER the car was tuned and took it out of tune.
Dude, all my family and myself have ever owned and drove was stick shift... I have never had a automatic car in my garage, where are you getting this?
Then he turned it back down and continued to screw with it.
If you say so...
He then took it to 4 different shops that took things off, put them back etc continuing to screw with the car.
Please name the 4 shops that I went to and they worked on my car... Please...
Lastly he landed at another local Mustang Dyno shop which turned the boost all the way down, dynoed the TTP tune at wastegate pressure and told him he needed a Jestr tune.
Why don't you grow a pair and say say Rollo and Omar @ CFT and JestR are lyers because that's what you're saying. From your words, they went to my car, turned the boost controller down and did the baseline TTP run and turned it up for the remainder... Hmmm....
Jestr "tuned" the car, ran the dyno again. The mysterious results were never given. They raised the boost 10psi, printed him a before and after dynosheet and told him "Look at the awesome work! you gained 86tq!". Anyone knowledgeble about dynos and performance knows that boost = tq.
What mysteriouis results are you talking about???? I posted the baseline pull, and then posted JestR's results over layed on each other. Nothing else is missing... JestR flashed my car back to stock and started over.
I hope by this time after becoming more knowledgable about the Evo that he realizes what happened.
I had already known what happened.... No need to see anymore...
In the end we were aggravated by being blamed for installing his Autometer gauge wrong, when in fact he formatted the SD card wrong, rendering it useless. Then found out about this ordeal with the tuning through reading it on a forum instead of contacting us with any questions or concerns about his tune.
I called you about the autometer, but you told me to call them, now you are useless because you cannot help.... Why will I contact you about my tune when my car is running terrable? I got a CE light, I got sputters and back fire as if a spark plug was out, no need to let a guy who really messed it up try again. To me you would be second guessing what the issues were and honestly all you do is put the blame on someone else, so I moved on
Jestr is a great guy and we are happy he found someone he believes in.
Me too, one of the greatest person I have ever meet, outside of the EVO world.
Best of luck.
TTP
Thanks, you too
A lot of incorrect info here.. 1st the car ran a 12.7 with JestR's tune and 4 MPH's quicker. Your tune allowed me to go 13's all day long with a 1.7/ 1.8 60ft. Don't come here and say that it was unmatched until I added parts because both you and JestR had the same exact platform to tune with and not a single part was added, it was the same set-up, okay, so don't say meth, EVOgreen (which I never owned one), and other bs because it's not true. You needed 26 PSI to get the results and it took JestR 22 PSI. Meth went in my car 4 months after these encounters, so try again...
We were blamed for incorrect install of an Autometer wideband. In the end a week later, LilRico called Autometer and they told him he formatted his SD card in the wrong format and its why it didn't work. Once he rectified his mistake, it worked perfectly.
I called you and you said call Autometer, so you did nothing, yeah I found out that I had the wrong format with the SD card, but guess what, it still wasn't functional.... Yeah the firmware update made it light up, but it still wasn't reading... In the morning this is what I was left with
Please go on and say I did that...
As far as the tuning, two days after it and his ranting and raving about how he smoked an STi with 4 people in his car, (I still have all the emails saved BTW) he went to the track and couldn't drive it. He burned his stock clutch to the ground in the first 1500 miles.
1st off, the clutch died at 2,500, so what? Lets dig into this more... Shall I post the map I had from you? You want to see the gaps in the map again or how you jumped in timing? You know why my car was going slow? Knock... Ain't that some stuff... At first everything seemed fine, but after so much knock the octane rating on the ECU went down and the car automatically started pulling timing... So... It's going to go slower and slower as the knock keeps happening... That's why over time the car become more and more of a pig... Have you learned that yet?
Power doesn't instantly turn a car in to an instant timeslip and it was a lesson hard learned.
Something you should be learning with your dyno
Lilrico's times were lacking as this was one of his first stickshift cars and he couldn't drive well. He raised the boost AFTER the car was tuned and took it out of tune.
Dude, all my family and myself have ever owned and drove was stick shift... I have never had a automatic car in my garage, where are you getting this?
Then he turned it back down and continued to screw with it.
If you say so...
He then took it to 4 different shops that took things off, put them back etc continuing to screw with the car.
Please name the 4 shops that I went to and they worked on my car... Please...
Lastly he landed at another local Mustang Dyno shop which turned the boost all the way down, dynoed the TTP tune at wastegate pressure and told him he needed a Jestr tune.
Why don't you grow a pair and say say Rollo and Omar @ CFT and JestR are lyers because that's what you're saying. From your words, they went to my car, turned the boost controller down and did the baseline TTP run and turned it up for the remainder... Hmmm....
Jestr "tuned" the car, ran the dyno again. The mysterious results were never given. They raised the boost 10psi, printed him a before and after dynosheet and told him "Look at the awesome work! you gained 86tq!". Anyone knowledgeble about dynos and performance knows that boost = tq.
What mysteriouis results are you talking about???? I posted the baseline pull, and then posted JestR's results over layed on each other. Nothing else is missing... JestR flashed my car back to stock and started over.
I hope by this time after becoming more knowledgable about the Evo that he realizes what happened.
I had already known what happened.... No need to see anymore...
In the end we were aggravated by being blamed for installing his Autometer gauge wrong, when in fact he formatted the SD card wrong, rendering it useless. Then found out about this ordeal with the tuning through reading it on a forum instead of contacting us with any questions or concerns about his tune.
I called you about the autometer, but you told me to call them, now you are useless because you cannot help.... Why will I contact you about my tune when my car is running terrable? I got a CE light, I got sputters and back fire as if a spark plug was out, no need to let a guy who really messed it up try again. To me you would be second guessing what the issues were and honestly all you do is put the blame on someone else, so I moved on
Jestr is a great guy and we are happy he found someone he believes in.
Me too, one of the greatest person I have ever meet, outside of the EVO world.
Best of luck.
TTP
Thanks, you too
wow I mean wow, first off the guy didnt slam you and then you guys come on in here and slam him. What kind of stuff are you trying to pull. Yeah he said the tune didnt work out but he didnt say that you didnt know what you were doing or anything bad. I think you owe this guy an apology for the harseness you just dealt him.