Couple spark plug question's after headers??
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Melting Slicks
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From: Redding CA
Thanks!!!!
Guys,
Thanks so much for all the help, I did end up going with the new TR55 plugs and the car runs night and day better. I actually just ran a friend of mine in his 69 Camaro last night from about 20 to 100 or so. He has an aluminum headed 350 with a high stall 700R4 and 3.73's with some decent suspension work and I pulled about 2 lengths on him.
We ran twice with the same result...I'm curious to see how much better it'll run with the new O2 sensor's and a proper tune?
I did alot of looking on those tuner programs and I'm really leaning toward the HPtuners...it seems to have quite a few more tuning parameter's for only a little more than the price of a Diablo Predator.
I already have the laptop but do I have to have the "scanner" or can I just run the program "suite"?
Thanks again for everything,
Donnie
Thanks so much for all the help, I did end up going with the new TR55 plugs and the car runs night and day better. I actually just ran a friend of mine in his 69 Camaro last night from about 20 to 100 or so. He has an aluminum headed 350 with a high stall 700R4 and 3.73's with some decent suspension work and I pulled about 2 lengths on him.
We ran twice with the same result...I'm curious to see how much better it'll run with the new O2 sensor's and a proper tune?
I did alot of looking on those tuner programs and I'm really leaning toward the HPtuners...it seems to have quite a few more tuning parameter's for only a little more than the price of a Diablo Predator.
I already have the laptop but do I have to have the "scanner" or can I just run the program "suite"?
Thanks again for everything,
Donnie
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From: Murphy TX
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Sorry, I don't understand your question.
You'll want a scanner that will let you collect data that you analyze, mull over, swear about whatever that will have you wanting to make changes to the information in your PCM.
You'll want a tuner to modify the data you want to put in your PCM. You typically will have to read stuff from your PCM at least once and modify that. You'll then write your modified tune to the PCM.
So, there are really three disctinct capabilities being exercised, regardless of how they're packaged: scanning (data collection), programming (reading from and writing to the PCM), and tuning (the actual modification of data). Make sense?
My point was just that without scanning capability, any tuning is just shooting in the dark. I thought their full-up suite was a complete package including the scanner and that there were some optional add-ons for data sources external to the OBD-II data (like WBO2 sensors and exhaust gas temperature sensors). A package like HPTuners is a much better option IMO than the Predator in that it gives you a lot more grow room so although more expensive, it may hold its value longer as your tuning needs grow/change. For a lot of folks, the initial expense and time required to learn to use it effectively given their modest tuning needs are the biggest negatives.
You'll want a scanner that will let you collect data that you analyze, mull over, swear about whatever that will have you wanting to make changes to the information in your PCM.
You'll want a tuner to modify the data you want to put in your PCM. You typically will have to read stuff from your PCM at least once and modify that. You'll then write your modified tune to the PCM.
So, there are really three disctinct capabilities being exercised, regardless of how they're packaged: scanning (data collection), programming (reading from and writing to the PCM), and tuning (the actual modification of data). Make sense?
My point was just that without scanning capability, any tuning is just shooting in the dark. I thought their full-up suite was a complete package including the scanner and that there were some optional add-ons for data sources external to the OBD-II data (like WBO2 sensors and exhaust gas temperature sensors). A package like HPTuners is a much better option IMO than the Predator in that it gives you a lot more grow room so although more expensive, it may hold its value longer as your tuning needs grow/change. For a lot of folks, the initial expense and time required to learn to use it effectively given their modest tuning needs are the biggest negatives.
