A lot of these posts the people didn't even tune with me. I keep information on everyone i've ever worked with. I also don't half *** tunes or give one or two revisions and call it "GOOD".

I actually tune from Monday through Thursday remotely and that's all i do. I don't dyno tune on the side and hand out half *** tunes.

Let me copy and paste what I wrote on facebook to clear a few things up. People who actually work with me know i deliver very good quality work. Good drivability, and good safe power.

If I say theres something wrong with your setup, IE.. a full blown double pumper with a fuel pressure issue causing a lean issue for example like Hutch959 then of course it has to be resolved. Maybe you can go to some other tuner and he will hack the map and "make" it work, even though there is an actual fuel pressure issue there, they just work around it. Thats not how I operate.

Heres what I posted on facebook when I seen this same individual "Pitside" who I've never tuned with before say false accusations about me:

I have thousands of happy customers, so if you want to degrade my work even though im probably the most active remote tuner right now out there, then i guess continue to do so. I remote tune 100% and nothing else Monday through Thursday every week / then do full builds fri through sun. It is a full time job. I dedicate those days 100% from around 10am to 10PM every night. Sometimes till 3am.

Also if you never remote tuned and theres a mechanical issue on the other end, which there is a lot of time, you wouldnt know how difficult it is to troubleshoot a car without seeing it. Frank's car is a good example of such.

I troubleshoot / fix cars all the time remote, don't charge a dime extra. A single map tune when the cars 100% and the customer dedicates time to get it done and gives me back logs promptly can be done in 3-4 hours (maybe 4-5hrs) and that's mapping smoothly not half *** or block tuning. Thats also making sure everything is 100% and to my liking's. I'm a very picky person, more so then most of my customers.

I will put my work up against anyone you can think of that ever touched an evo and not once will you ever be able to legitly call one of my roms a hack job. Not sure why that word was used. So a hack jobs able to make stock blocks stay alive by the hundreds over 600whp and some almost trapping 150 on stock block. OK. Also I probably have the lowest failure ratio to exist right now for the evo under 1% out of 1,000+ I am pretty confident on that one also.

The bottom line is this though, One person can only tune so many cars. I am only one person, no one else tunes with me or for me. I can only handle the work load of ONE person.

I no longer take multiple cars at once anymore. I work off a schedule. I also wont ever remote tune a car and give you 2-3 roms and say ok its done. No I do not and never will cookie cut a tune, and my tunes usually have amazing drive ability with and without Speed density. I understand every aspect of the stock ecu, and there's not to many tuners who know everything I know about it and can control any bolt on throttle body for example and make it idle like stock, not dip rpm, and just in general behave as it should assuming stepping motor is working properly.

But I do admit in the past I was kind of rude to some customers and had a really sloppy scheduling system, but I am much more organized now and have learned to be much nicer to my customers now.

All that matters is , im very busy right now and have tons of cars to tune, so i must be doing something right. I do kind of wish cars could be completed faster remote though, but the truth is, most customers cars are not 100% and need troubleshooted. I do full builds also, and can usually help them easily based on experience, but if its something that sets the tune back then that there is a example where it drags the tune on.

Either way continue to talk bad about me. After all I dedicated most of my life to offer remote tunes and now I am really popular with it, but cant really handle the work load i get as one person in a timely manor so i lose a lot of potential new customers. But again it goes back to one person can only do so much, and I would rather take quality over quantity. So if you want to tune 30 cars a week and not smooth maps, go ahead. I wont ever take that route in my life so yes I lose out on $ but i can also confidently post in the public that my maps are smooth and very nicely done with confidence.

Hope this helps explain some of why tunes can take awhile, and that its not all my fault really if the car isn't doing what it should and requires mechanical assistance.

I try to remain a humble person, but I also dont want taken advantage of. There's not a single rom on my computer I wouldn't post to public with confidence, because as I said when it comes to smoothing and just in general understanding how mapping should be done, i do it properly and i always smooth my work no matter if it takes another 1hr or not. I take pride in what I do, and wont ever become sloppy.

Also If I took over a year to tune every car Id be broke and have no $ , so clearly theres something different in that case that sets it aside from the rest.

Either way if anyone takes any kind of offense to something I wrote here I apologize in advance, and really dont want to keep posting in here back and forth because it will be a distraction and not allow me to get cars done. Thats why i dont really post in public to much anymore, other then when i want to share a car maybe on the forum or answer a question or just post results maybe if I decide to. I try to focus on my customers 100%. I use social media, but things like this I rather not be posting because writing this takes up time I could be using tuning a customers car.

\ Then I proceded to say (to the person that was askign about tuning which triggered this "pitside " guy to respond on facebook:

Not to mention, if you are in MD i am in PA I can tune your car in person then you have no worry about remote or email stuff. It will be done in person. I am tuning a evo on Wednesday in person that has 1,200 original miles on AEM V2 for example, and have guys come from VA, NY, NJ, NC, FL all over the east coast to get my tunes.

But I am not in the market anymore to remote tune cars that cant be completed in the same day, it just is not a good thing. I rather have the car done in the same day its scheduled. When that happens I am much happier. With the scheduling system I am partially using right now, it seems to help a lot in doing that. If mechanical issues arise it is understandable, but my goal now is get cars done in the same day they are scheduled. Dual maps can be tricky also due to the fuels not fully getting drained and mixing.

Either way to anyone I've been rude to in the past or made wait and were not fully satisfied due to such I apologize. Thats the only thing I can do. Id like to have no unsatisfied customers, but that's easier said then done apparently.

 

I use Christian at Pure Drive Performance. Look him up, contact him, and he will get you taken care of. He is easy to reach, responds quickly, and his tunes are solid.

 

The car you are referring to his here: https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/pr...d-project.html

Are you going to sit there and tell me that Nick had no mechanical issues? i've help diagnose more bugs in that car then I did my last 10 remote tuned cars combined & it STILL has issues. He just recently switched to a BR double pumper due to his full blown having issues / leaks.

If anything my number represents a very very strong car. 420WHP VD traps 120-122mph for example. My numbers always out trap what a normal dynojet should do with them.

You wont ever see corrected numbers, or lowered baro to inflate numbers from me due to elevation levels. The last customer that went on a dynojet made 670WHP in VD and put down around 720WHP on the dynojet. My VD numbers are far from high reading.

The fact you just mentioned 1800cc injectors, i know who you're referring to, (Nick F.) You do NOT own that car, and you never tuned with me ever. You are really talking for not being legitimate on your claims.

Whats funny, is Nick is still tuning with me. I asked him, and he said he just bought a house and was working on bugs. If anything that should show how I support my customers. I spent a year with him helping him diagnose, troubleshoot, and selling him parts at very good discounts. He is not unhappy.

I emailed him instantly after I put 2+2 together with your location and his car.

Me: "not sure what you ended up doing with your car ,but your e85 map all it needed was leaned out and it would have been done. so if you took the car somewhere else im sure they just stole my map off the ecu and made minor adjustments. hdd protection doesn’t stop the car from being able to be tuned, however it does not allow the virtual dyno to show legit numbers."

Him:
"No my full blown pump was leaking so I'm putting in a buchur. I bought a new house so haven't had much time. I'll send you a rom soon.
Nick Ferguson"
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For the record I paid for my GT-R in cash. I own the car 100%. As I have paid for my Evo in cash as well. I have never had a car payment in my entire life. I do not own my own house however, which is why I can pay for something like a GT-R in cash.

I have plenty of money, and even if I was a millionaire, it wouldn't change the way I handle services to my customers. I treat all customers the same, no matter if its a HUGE setup or a very small or almost stock setup. They get very good attention to detail, and I make sure maps cant be smoothed anymore then they are. You cant physically smooth a map more then I smooth it after im done tuning it. that is 100% FACT.

There are few and far between tuners like me that still exists that give all they got on every customer car. I tune customers like I tune my personal car. I dont half *** or rush or deliver blocked or unsmooth work. I take a lot of pride in what I do, and would never give something bad to a customer.

All the tuners you mentioned I've retuned their work over 100 times, plus I have a lot of complaints from the one you are tuning with yourself.

When you dyno tune or do anything outside of remote/email, you better look elsewhere for remote/email tuning. This kind of tuning the person has to do nothing but that or you will not get a proper tune in a decent time frame.

I now am really good with getting tunes completed in decent time frames. I work with a google calendar which has been working great for me. I also only do remote/email tuning and NOTHING else Monday through Thursday. I sit on the computer chair so long of hours I have no choice but to not do it on Friday or ill have back issues. I have to get up and move around, so I dont tune on Friday, and instead go into my shop with my uncle.

I hope you are proud of talking down on someone who genuinely really spends a lot of his life remote/email tuning and i could easily go out and buy a dyno and only do it local or within driving distance, but i still decide to remote/email tune to support the customer base I made grow around me.

I've actually retuned customers a year later for free because they came to me and suggested they didnt feel the tune was up to par, and after showing proof to me i did it free.

I also had for example a customers car have a mechanical failure during tuning which we ended up agreeing was actually caused by me overlooking the log on injector duty cycle and I gave him almost $1000 to fix my mistake. How many tuners do you know that will give their customer a lot of $ to help them fix a mistake they admitted to? This is the first time I mentioned this. I have lots of things I do that no one knows about that would really surprise my so called "haters".

I also probably have the lowest failure rate to exist right now with 4g63's ratio wise. I cant even remember the last time I had a issue with a customers car.

 

I've never tuned with you according to my search result for your forum ID. There is nothing on my computer with "Teal2nnr".

What name are you under if this is true? Also im willing to make it right for you if you want.

My goal is to have no unhappy customers.

Also i never declined a refund to anyone before If I never gave them a basemap or any kind of work.

I am here for hte customer not myself. I'll take a loss to protect my name/reputation before I do to profit off someone elses loss.

If you knew me as a person personally you would know im a very humble person, yet competitive, however I don't bloat or lie about anything I do.

Im a very genuine person, and at the age of 33 I really rather just be giving people good tunes, not on here defending myself like this.

I have way more happy customers then unhappy. I have remote / email tuned over 1,000 evos in under 6 years.

 

Just because I don't go around asking my customers to put they were tuned by me in their signature doesn't mean I didn't tune them. most guys who refer me are tuned by me or have been in cars i've tuned that really impressed them with excellent driveability and clean safe power.

 

29-30 days you waited, but still i agree that's horrible without any kind of notice.

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I've got the entire email conversation + more between me and you.

I just took a glance at it, and i see i sent instructions for idle tuning on Feb 28, 2014 at 5:27 AM

You didn't respond back until Mar 5, 2014 at 6:58 AM

Then the car had the siphon issue + it had the clogged fuel filter.

Theres more that meets the eye, and if you want to give me bad publicity please share the faults of the vehicle at the time as well.

Not once did I ever tell you you needed $1200 in parts to fix your fuel system.

My scheduling system was very flawed before ill admit that though. Now I really set it in stone with the customer a date and we get together and knock everything out in 5hrs or however many hours it takes.

 

OK I just wanna say thats not true about tom he only took my money when we started tuning my evo and that was it and he spent a great deal of time on my car making sure everything was perfect and he did such a good job I'm lucky I tuned with this guy because I came to find out the tune I was on nearly cost me my motor and if it weren't for tom saving my investment I don't know what I would of done he really came thru and did an amazing job this guy really knows what he's doing and he is very upfront about his work he stands behind and that's loyalty and its pretty rare these days to get that kinda treatment from someone when most places are really out there to take ur money and not do the job right tom is not one of those people.

 

I have tuned my Evo 9 and my Evo X with Tom. My evo 9 was tuned in 6 hours because we didn't have any issues.

Although my X, it has been nearly 8 months now I had to swap the turbo FOUR times due to it failing within 3 pulls each time. Not once did Tom ask me to pay anything extra. Now I got a turbo on the way and I can't wait to finish the car.

Thanks for your patience Tom and your great tunes

 

I have had experience with 3 different tuners, Innovative motorworks(on my k20 civic), Iveytune and Tom. Tom was my first remote tune experience. my two dyno tunes with innovative and ivey, they both had maybe 4 to 5 pulls on the dyno and that was it, yes the car made good numbers but everything else sucked. Innovative did follow through with maybe one or two revisions. After ivey tuned my evo it was running like crap(stalling, no ac, drive ability sucked), I took it back to him and he blamed it on a bad fuel pump, and after the fuel pump and still having issues Ivey suggest to retune on SD! So basically all the money i spent on his MAF tuning was useless and waste of $.So i had enough of it and thats when i researched on the forums and came across tscomp.After talking to him, we set out to fix a couple things and tom did his SD tune and the car ran so much better.It was smooth and made great power. Tom has sent me over 10 maps, he is by far the most experienced tuner i have dealt with. He follows through with his tunes until they are 100%. He actually made my evo run so good evo though I was having massive blowby, which was why my MAF tune with Ivey sucked ( the whole maf was full of oil and getting over everything. He's a busy man so that's why there may be a wait but when hes done with his tune, the car will have ZERO issues. I'm confident to say that Tom knows the evo platform better than anyone else. Matter fact, I will be soon getting my motor built by him. I have and will be recommending him to anyone who would require tuning/builds.

 

Lol what's funny is, this is the first time, I ever seen a negative post on tom at tscompusa. Tom is a humble guy straight up and forward. He doesn't take anyone money's I know for a damn FACT! When we got done tuning my evo 8...2.0lr,6466,2150cc, SD, etc. It Made 818whp it drove like a stock car. I was shocked how the car even drove and when it was WOT it was a true animal. I was so excited for the decent tune/tom stayed up until 5AM easter time just to insure everything was 100%. I OFFERED him a $100 TIP for a great job, kickass tune and his customer service. Tom never took the tip!!! That's when i knew hands down he was a really cool person because knowing other tuners, shops anybody would've taken that tip, with No questions asked.

Me, myself and I could set a good example for all toms work he performs remote/Etunes. My car never had a issue from his tune and not to mention made 523whp at 32psi on ****ty California 91OCT!! 800+ on e85 that's with running out of fuel!!

Tom is really patient because I wanted to change the setup to a ff kit, bigger fuel system, etc so while switching to ff kit which a local welder mocked up for me we had issues with figment and tom was patient all that time even when he had me all scheduled to get it dialed in and I had to cancel since it had 02 housing hitting the block wasn't safe to tune. He never got upset and gave me all the time I needed.. Not to mention he helped me out many many times on any tech question I would ever have. He's the only person I trust tuning my car that's hands down I don't care what anyone says. My buddy Jeff and Alex tuned with him after they rode in my car. They were shocked how the car Performed making high numbers and still drove like stock. They're cars are running 100% better then before. I seen the results before and after with both tunes/both cars.


Since I'm finish with my new setup. I'll sure to share my results. When I get a chance to get it dialed in, on my day off since I'm always busy af due to a crazy work schedule!


Other funny thing is... when I read the post on affording payments on GTR. I was rofl because I know for a fact he bought it cash lol. I asked tom to show me proof and he did lol. That was just a Paypal account hahah. Other thing was the gtr was delivered to toms front door thru a buddy of mine that owns a transporting company! Not only I'll say toms a great person/ tuner but I'm glad to call him a great friend today.

 

I personally believe in getting a tune in person. obviously if you cannot do that a remote tune is going to have to be what it is. At that point the only person i would use is tscompusa. just search his name, this is the first negative i have seen about him so i was pretty surprised. just do your research, seems like there is a results thread a day from him and they all seem pretty good as far as numbers and trap speed. The only real thing i could say i have seen from him i don't like is the way they are doing the FiTronic thing but i can understand it to a point.

 

lol.

First off i would like to thank Tom AGAIN for all he has done for me, my buddy, and our customer Evos.

For a little recap, he tuned my Evo first back about 3 years ago to around 400whp. i drove on that (which is probably the smoothest the car ever ran on a tune) for a long time until i bought a turbo kit and installed it and made 551whp/407wtq on a stock block/trans/tc. ran that HARD for about a year and a little over 17k miles (100k total miles) as it was my daily driver. It also trapped 132. Now i have a built engine from him with a 6466 and just finishing up little things to get tuned from him again. I do not EVER regret doing work with Tom. Even though it may take some time to get things all 100% because he is super picky, its all worth it in the end. And most Evo enthusiast should have that mindset.. Be super picky.

Evos need attention to get 100%. I can't imagine with how many Evos Tom has tuned, of how many mechanical issues he has to go through. Before me and my buddy get a car ready to tune from Tom, we have a step by step process that is time consuming and takes tools which most people probably wouldn't go through. That is why in our area, we take peoples Evos to our shop to get ready for tuning. Im sure he appreciates that. But even so you will run into little other things that may prevent from finishing the tune within the same day. Within those issues, we would for sure like to blame the tune. Because that is the easiest thing to do . Most people who blame the tuner usually don't understand completely how things work. If something was wrong in the tune, then the tune would be wrong with the other 1000+ Evos he has tuned. Which doesn't really make sense. Typically it is something with the car.

now with that said, GET YOUR CAR READY TO TUNE WHEN YOU ARE SCHEDULED. that means a boost leak test, every bolt tight, no rattles for false knock, no leaks etc. its up to YOU to get it ready for a smooth tuning day. I've seen it multiple times that people take their car to a dyno with it barely running and leaks all over the place and they want it tuned. they spend 90% of the time fixing stuff that could have been fixed at home. And then the customer complains about not getting it tuned/ or blame it on the tune if something doesn't work right. They expect the tune to fix all their issues.. . No. it doesn't work like that. Everything needs to work before you even think about a tune. (for the most part).

Anyways i just wanted to comment because Tom doesn't deserve to be bashed. he does his best. all i need to say is, Email him, get a date set to tune and go from there. you won't be disappointed.

and for Heavens sake get your car close to 100% before contacting him.

 

Go with Tom!!

Very good tuner with knowledge!!
His first priority is to be absolutely safe your engine for long term.

Stock EVO IX weight with intake, tb exhaust and meth inj 11.5 117mph with 17" radial tires.

 

Tscomp ftw! Originally I heard about Tom from my buddy John who at the moment worked at Boostin Performance. He had a right hand drive evo 5 Built 2.0L high comp built head kelford 280 etc. Fic 2150. I asked him when he was gonna have Devin tune his car and his response was I want my drag car to drive like a stock evo. Sure enough a few weeks later 15 degree weather he showed me a cold start on his car and it turned on first crank without touching the gas. At the moment I had an e85 tune from boostin and my car took atleast 15 cranks to start. So I proceeded to contact Tom and started purchasing parts at unbeatable prices. (cams, springs and retainers, valves, seals, 4 bar Map sensor, fp manifold etc) after installin all the parts me and Tom started tuning and dialing all the parts in. At the moment I had fic 1450's which I ran into a problem with sticking a causing a misfire. A few days later I noticed I had low oil pressure long story short when my car was down for upgrades and having the head built I had my valve cover done and there was sand behind the baffles and ruined my entire motor. At that point I was sure I wasn't going to keep my car I told Tom about my situation and he goes I can refund u the money for the tune which did. And also offered to sell me replacement parts to get it back up and running at even a better prices then he would already quote somebody. At the end of the day I couldn't let my car go so I fixed it. About 2 months later it was back up and running. I repaid him what he refunded me and we began tuning. Then we ran into a fuel issue so I replaced my entire fuel system including injectors. A few weeks later we began tuning. Tom didn't charge me for having to retune idle and cruise due to new injectors that there isn't any information about (aus high impedance injectors) it only took him a few modification to the rom to have them dialed in. This whole time he had been very patient and understanding.

 

I have been using Tom to tune for over 4 years now. I have probably over 100 map revisions and he has always been there for me. At the same time, I understand he has an overwhelming work load and don't expect him to jump through hoops to get my stuff done. I send him a message that I have issues, and he usually responds within a day or two to work it into his schedule. During all the time we've worked together, he has never asked for more money. However, I often sent him money after he had done work for me. I don't believe it's fair for him to spend countless hours tuning my car for free, especially when most of the issues are from part changes, or car issues. (iac failures, ignition problems, fuel pressure issues, etc) If he books my car in his schedule and we can't tune after finding spark issues, he doesn't complain that I'm wasting his time. (customer car problems do waste tons of time) Many times, he has sourced replacement parts for me cheaper than I can find them myself. Built cars with aftermarket parts are never just a simple flash, and issues will come up. He was able to keep my Evo IX together making over 800hp pushing 45+ psi. One slip up could have cost me 10x more money than I've paid him altogether. I've been building cars for over 16 years and see hiring Tom as cheap insurance. I appreciated his work on my Evo so much, that I contacted him a couple months ago about tuning my GTR. We will begin tuning it in a couple weeks, once the remainder of my parts arrive. If he wasn't good at what he does, I wouldn't have been willing to put my new car at risk!