AVB

After having a helluva time getting my cam to behave driveability-wise and being told by some pretty reputable local tuners it could not pass smog, I was ready to pull it out. Good thing I didn't because after working with Patrick (PatG) remotely, he not only worked with me to get passed the driveability issues, but he got it to pass the sniffer with flying colors!! Not bad for hopefully around 460 at the wheels.

This is at a shop who forced me to take off the catch can and put PCV back to stock, forced me to pull my 8mm red ignition wires and put back the ugly stock set as well as, pull my fuel rail pressure gauge. In other words he was going by the book on everything. Oh, and regular premium gas no E38.

Boomer111

Which cam?

What are the design numbers?

Congratulations and wait till next time!

choivette

So Arnel that does that mean I'll be seeing at the track sometime soon?

tlove32

Ignition wires? Really? That's crazy. He would have gotten an earful of four letter words and been told to stick a few thing in a few places as I layed a patch of rubber out of that place.

bullitt4110

Nice Arnel, about what size cam is it? This is in a LS3 right?

Z06supercharged

I told my buddy who owns a test only station about your ignition wires and fp gauge comments and he laughed so hard he couldn't talk for 5 minutes and asked what placed fed you that line of BS. He called over 2 of his techs and they laughed for a while as well. He joked and asked me if they checked the air in your tires to see if it was the stock air from the factory *** well...
I hope you didn't take your car back to that same place for the retest and a douche bag tech doing the visual.
Be sure and post the name of this place and location so no one else goes there and gets pulled into their lines of BS.

AVB

Hey Guys,

The cam is 226/235 .598”/.610” 114LSA +2 advance and yes, on an LS3. I got it with the possibility of going back to FI in the future and am very happy with it's NA performance. Satisfied enough I'm in no hurry to do anything but just enjoy it.

AVB

Why yes it does... I'm registered for Laguna 3/12 w/NCRC

BOUT X

way to go sounds like the guy got your car to pass with flying colors and to drive nice sounds like I need to get ahold of him to get my car to pass smog. The way it looks to me he knows how to tune a motor I might need you to send me his info so I can get my car done better


Pops

AVB

I did take it back to the same guy and the reason was because he let me get on the sniffer numerous times to check and re-check in between tuning changes. I did tell him needing to remove all those things were pretty stupid, but since I could take care of em in 5 minutes or so, versus removing LT's and reinstalling my A.I.R. system, which I had already done, I really didn't care.

AVB

To be able to remote tune properly, any good tuner will require you have either EFILive or HPTuners. If you've got one of those or know someone giving you access, I'd say go for it.

BOUT X

I just meet a local guy in Modesto that has HPTuners and said anytime I need his set up give him a call.

Thanks Arnel

hungryhippo

Was it hard to get it tuned to pass? Sounds like it took a few tries. I'll be in the same situation in a couple years.

AVB

Only took two tunes to get to the one we liked and he was very confident he could get it to pass. Didn't even ask to get paid till it did Although it did require we create a smog specific tune.

Another hurdle that held things back was getting the computer to show "Ready" on all the sensors. I wasted two tank fulls before finding the right tuning parameters to get it past being "Incomplete".