Evo X and most likely RA Group TUNE
So from my understanding, Magnus is renting out their dyno to us, and Marco from magnus will be tuning the X's, so technically they arent renting it out if their own guy is tuning it at their own shop. And if they are charging 600 a car, what is their regular price if 600 is their 'discounted' group rate price?
I called Magnus to do Speed Density on my car, talked to someone and said they would return my call. Have yet to hear from them... I know SD is too small of a job for such a big shop known for doing redicilous engine builds and breaking records but damn.
Local shop, YES, but I didnt have any problems when I called E-Spec to say I was coming down and I chose my own day and he was ready for me when I got there no questions asked. And charged hell of a lot cheaper than 600 for a tune and dyno rental (before they got their in-house dyno), and that was me by my self, not a 'group rate'.
Also, I'm sure E-Spec wont be coming for a couple hours and having to rush back. Unless you PM'ed him, I dont think he said anything about having to rush back. No doubt Magnus is such an extremly good tuner, I take my hat of to them for breaking records etc etc, but it seem you have jumped on the Magnus banwagon real fast. I forgot which EvoM member mentioned this, but I'd also like Magnus to post videos, mod lists of their tuned EVO's. Of course anyone who fully builds a motor and puts on an overprice turbo kit on their car will make loads of powe, but i want to see what tunes they have with minor mods and stock motor EVO's etc...
You can look all over EvoM's IX and X dyno tunes and see all the cars he has tuned with mods and VIDEO'S. I have yet to see MAGNUS Videos.
I called Magnus to do Speed Density on my car, talked to someone and said they would return my call. Have yet to hear from them... I know SD is too small of a job for such a big shop known for doing redicilous engine builds and breaking records but damn.
Local shop, YES, but I didnt have any problems when I called E-Spec to say I was coming down and I chose my own day and he was ready for me when I got there no questions asked. And charged hell of a lot cheaper than 600 for a tune and dyno rental (before they got their in-house dyno), and that was me by my self, not a 'group rate'.
Pros to having your car tuned at magnus
Won't be rushed to have your car tuned in a 2 hour time rrame. Magnus takes all the time they need for your vehicle cause they don't have to catch a flight
Local. If there are any issue, there is a professional tuner within 20 min of your house. Not 3000 miles away.
Experience. Magnus has been tuning cars for 15 years, has tuned thousands of cars over the years. They also hold records he world over, if the worlds top mitsubishi teams trust this guy and he's in your back yard, why woulkd you call a guy from northern tenessee to come tune your car? Doesn't make any sense.
Retunes from magnus for small changes are 200 bucks and can be be done any day you wish, not having to wait for your tuner to fly back.
their **** won't blow up, they are known the world over for reliabilty AND power. Those 2 usually don't go together.
Plus you can build a repore witha local reputable and experience shop where you can go for service after mitsu black **** your *** like they did me.
Won't be rushed to have your car tuned in a 2 hour time rrame. Magnus takes all the time they need for your vehicle cause they don't have to catch a flight
Local. If there are any issue, there is a professional tuner within 20 min of your house. Not 3000 miles away.
Experience. Magnus has been tuning cars for 15 years, has tuned thousands of cars over the years. They also hold records he world over, if the worlds top mitsubishi teams trust this guy and he's in your back yard, why woulkd you call a guy from northern tenessee to come tune your car? Doesn't make any sense.
Retunes from magnus for small changes are 200 bucks and can be be done any day you wish, not having to wait for your tuner to fly back.
their **** won't blow up, they are known the world over for reliabilty AND power. Those 2 usually don't go together.
Plus you can build a repore witha local reputable and experience shop where you can go for service after mitsu black **** your *** like they did me.
You can look all over EvoM's IX and X dyno tunes and see all the cars he has tuned with mods and VIDEO'S. I have yet to see MAGNUS Videos.
Would also like to see some street-tuned Xs from Magnus
The data base computer is next to the dyno...all customers cars + tunes are in their....
i too would be interested in seeing some dyno's/tunes etc. but from what I know, they've 'kinda' swore off the forums..since forums sometimes tend to sympathize more on a customers experience rather than 'the other side'
i too would be interested in seeing some dyno's/tunes etc. but from what I know, they've 'kinda' swore off the forums..since forums sometimes tend to sympathize more on a customers experience rather than 'the other side'
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Can we not get HBSpeed to come back up to Canada again like they did last time? You know they know the SST platform and many people have posted their tunes from HBSpeed so you know they have already been well received by the community. HBspeed tunes are posted all over the tuning thread for both GSR/MR.
The way i see tuning with magnus is this.
These are the thoughts that run through my head.
1. Not much consumer dyno graphs posted up on any forums, it makes me wonder why? If they did an excellent job, wouldn't you hear about them more? For instance, If you tune 100 cars, and all are positive results, I would expect about 10% of the customers to post up their happy results on a tune. Like if i got Wow'd after the tune. I'd be all over the forums, sharing my enjoyment and build with everyone. Now, if i was just Ok with the with the tune, I dont think i would be inclined to post it up seeing that may not have gotten what i expected. If it was a poor tune, like maybe what four stars did one of us, then I would let people know to stay away.
2. If they are proud of their work and have made great accomplishments, wouldn't you think they would try to promote that by communicating with the consumers via forums and posting their achievements. I haven't seen many things in relation to their work, except though their website and review articles on some of their products. That just isn't enough to sway me to think they are high level tuners dealing with tunes every day. (just my own opinion)
3. My belief is repetition makes for greater experience. If im gonna take a chance at a tuning place you don't know too much about. I would like to know how many they have done in the past. If X garage tunes 10 cars a month vs a Y garage tuning 100 a month. I would lean towards Y garage.
My summery:
What I'm trying to get at here is, I don't want a jack of all trades to tune my car. I want a specialist to tune it. Not to say magnus isn't good at what they do. Just dont expect me to think you can be good at everything you touch. We are human and generally we excel at what we do every day, not at what we do sometimes.
The way i see tuning with magnus is this.
These are the thoughts that run through my head.
1. Not much consumer dyno graphs posted up on any forums, it makes me wonder why? If they did an excellent job, wouldn't you hear about them more? For instance, If you tune 100 cars, and all are positive results, I would expect about 10% of the customers to post up their happy results on a tune. Like if i got Wow'd after the tune. I'd be all over the forums, sharing my enjoyment and build with everyone. Now, if i was just Ok with the with the tune, I dont think i would be inclined to post it up seeing that may not have gotten what i expected. If it was a poor tune, like maybe what four stars did one of us, then I would let people know to stay away.
2. If they are proud of their work and have made great accomplishments, wouldn't you think they would try to promote that by communicating with the consumers via forums and posting their achievements. I haven't seen many things in relation to their work, except though their website and review articles on some of their products. That just isn't enough to sway me to think they are high level tuners dealing with tunes every day. (just my own opinion)
3. My belief is repetition makes for greater experience. If im gonna take a chance at a tuning place you don't know too much about. I would like to know how many they have done in the past. If X garage tunes 10 cars a month vs a Y garage tuning 100 a month. I would lean towards Y garage.
My summery:
What I'm trying to get at here is, I don't want a jack of all trades to tune my car. I want a specialist to tune it. Not to say magnus isn't good at what they do. Just dont expect me to think you can be good at everything you touch. We are human and generally we excel at what we do every day, not at what we do sometimes.
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Can we not get HBSpeed to come back up to Canada again like they did last time? You know they know the SST platform and many people have posted their tunes from HBSpeed so you know they have already been well received by the community. HBspeed tunes are posted all over the tuning thread for both GSR/MR.
The way i see tuning with magnus is this.
These are the thoughts that run through my head.
1. Not much consumer dyno graphs posted up on any forums, it makes me wonder why? If they did an excellent job, wouldn't you hear about them more?
2. If they are proud of their work and have made great accomplishments, wouldn't you think they would try to promote that by communicating with the consumers via forums and posting their achievements. I haven't seen many things in relation to their work, except though their website and review articles on some of their products.
3. My belief is repetition makes for greater experience. If im gonna take a chance at a tuning place, I would like to know how many they ahve done in the past. If X garage tunes 10 cars a month vs a Y garage tuning 100 a month. I would lean towards Y garage.
The way i see tuning with magnus is this.
These are the thoughts that run through my head.
1. Not much consumer dyno graphs posted up on any forums, it makes me wonder why? If they did an excellent job, wouldn't you hear about them more?
2. If they are proud of their work and have made great accomplishments, wouldn't you think they would try to promote that by communicating with the consumers via forums and posting their achievements. I haven't seen many things in relation to their work, except though their website and review articles on some of their products.
3. My belief is repetition makes for greater experience. If im gonna take a chance at a tuning place, I would like to know how many they ahve done in the past. If X garage tunes 10 cars a month vs a Y garage tuning 100 a month. I would lean towards Y garage.
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Also, I'm sure E-Spec wont be coming for a couple hours and having to rush back. Unless you PM'ed him, I dont think he said anything about having to rush back. No doubt Magnus is such an extremly good tuner, I take my hat of to them for breaking records etc etc, but it seem you have jumped on the Magnus banwagon real fast. I forgot which EvoM member mentioned this, but I'd also like Magnus to post videos, mod lists of their tuned EVO's. Of course anyone who fully builds a motor and puts on an overprice turbo kit on their car will make loads of powe, but i want to see what tunes they have with minor mods and stock motor EVO's etc...
You can look all over EvoM's IX and X dyno tunes and see all the cars he has tuned with mods and VIDEO'S. I have yet to see MAGNUS Videos.
Magnus tune for evoX group buy is $600. I already had a $550 HB Speed tune, meh. Gonna give Magnus a try this time.
Cause I know if I need a hand with something, I can drive down to see them and my car will be up and running.
You guys do whatever you like, I just made a suggestion.
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I'll start off with a few names that have come up. I'm not sure as to what other tuners will be willing to travel to Canada and tune so please chime in if you can add to the list.
E-Spec
Cobb
HBSpeed
Magnus
The way I see it........ real tunners and builders don't F...k around on the net advertising their dynos and results every 10 minutes to promo their sheet. I mean if you spend an hour a day tuning a car and the other half of the day posting the magic you had done.........well then............
Magnus tune for evoX group buy is $600. I already had a $550 HB Speed tune, meh. Gonna give Magnus a try this time.
Cause I know if I need a hand with something, I can drive down to see them and my car will be up and running.
You guys do whatever you like, I just made a suggestion.
NEWB
Magnus tune for evoX group buy is $600. I already had a $550 HB Speed tune, meh. Gonna give Magnus a try this time.
Cause I know if I need a hand with something, I can drive down to see them and my car will be up and running.
You guys do whatever you like, I just made a suggestion.
NEWB
As for your comment stated above about magnus spending a hour a day posting their work magic. I dont think that is what i was implying. I was referring to the end user, being the consumer doing the leg work for you promoting what good work you do. The more positive user feedback we see on the forum for any business will speak for itself and the company will not have to try to prove anything to anyone, because at that point they have already proven themself.
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TheNEWB no offense to you but you are so biased. You're spending tons of money at Magnus so youre kissing *** like to no tomorrow. Wait for your car to finish before you can make a real judgement. Others can mention other tuners and base the quality of the work from the reviews from other members of the board. You seem against every tuner except Magnus. You are in fact slowing this down for the Evo and RA owners that want a tune in.
Show us dyno sheets of Magnus' tuning or else for all we know there are other proven options out there
Just speaking my mind
Show us dyno sheets of Magnus' tuning or else for all we know there are other proven options out there
Just speaking my mind
Meh...just be appreciative of the fact that he is trying to help by suggesting someone else...more than that he even took the courtesy of calling them and asking for a deal even though he wouldn't be in the 'group tune' himself.
Hey guys, We have a couple of Evo's coming down from Montreal for a tune on our Mustang AWD-500. Jamie, "Jack of Trades", from this forum is co-owner and our Evo/RA Tuning guru. Maybe you can all do the group thing and make a weekend out of it. We have several hotels withing 1 mile of the shop and more tittie bars,,,well prob not as many as Montreal but you know what i mean. 9-10 Hr drive at the speed limit 
We could work out a great group rate if this is something someone wanted to arrange.
Just one of the almost stock Evo 10's we finished with amazing results. Before is dotted...
-Brian
brian@dynotechtuning.com
We could work out a great group rate if this is something someone wanted to arrange.
Just one of the almost stock Evo 10's we finished with amazing results. Before is dotted...
-Brian
brian@dynotechtuning.com
Last edited by Dynotech Tuning; Feb 9, 2011 at 08:33 PM.
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oooooooooooo that makes sense.
I gotta say I never heard of ECUTek until you posted about it. Wonder if it has all the options like multi map switching and cel KNOCK counter.
As for the rest of the guys, Marco will email me some maps to post. Since he is busy building 3 evos at the moment, it may take a bit of time.
NEWB
I gotta say I never heard of ECUTek until you posted about it. Wonder if it has all the options like multi map switching and cel KNOCK counter.
As for the rest of the guys, Marco will email me some maps to post. Since he is busy building 3 evos at the moment, it may take a bit of time.
NEWB
^thanks, also if you can ask'em for Evo X's..gsrs and Mr's...stock turbo/green/red/ and well ur black 
....it would be nice to have the mod list of the cars as well...just to make it a fair comparison.
....it would be nice to have the mod list of the cars as well...just to make it a fair comparison.