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From: Henderson Nv-Rohnert Park/Sonoma C o. ca/born in NY Rockaway Beach.
Get yourself a tune... you will be amazed at the extra hp a good tuner can get for about 500.00 not sure if you have an a6 or m6 but with the a6 they can really wake up the transmission and get a little better throttle .... best bang for the buck... I hained 40hp and 36 ft lns trq with a tune on my stock ls2 with a CAI haltech ..
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Racer
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Get yourself a tune... you will be amazed at the extra hp a good tuner can get for about 500.00 not sure if you have an a6 or m6 but with the a6 they can really wake up the transmission and get a little better throttle .... best bang for the buck... I hained 40hp and 36 ft lns trq with a tune on my stock ls2 with a CAI haltech ..
It's tuned.
Safety Car
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From: Mooresville (Race City USA) NC
Depends what you want. I've installed some sixty mods to my '09 C6, (at a cost of some $9,000.00) yet the engine, and the entire drive train is stock, except for the brake pads and tires (now GM ceramics and Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus run-flats). In my opinion any C6 is rather primitive, and requires many finishing touches to bring it up to world class standards. A few clews: any mod should look like it belonged their in the first place, none should break the law, none should appeal to the Darth Vader misfits (i.e. blacked out anything), and none should void your warranty, or your car's life expectancy (like ALL engine or transmission "tunes"); and also shouldn't transform your car into a juvenile public nuisance, like pulling your NPP fuse. Other than that, enjoy all the great things you can do to actually upgrade the C6 from being just another Chevrolet.
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From: Henderson Nv-Rohnert Park/Sonoma C o. ca/born in NY Rockaway Beach.
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Team Owner
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From: PA
Depends what you want. I've installed some sixty mods to my '09 C6, (at a cost of some $9,000.00) yet the engine, and the entire drive train is stock, except for the brake pads and tires (now GM ceramics and Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus run-flats). In my opinion any C6 is rather primitive, and requires many finishing touches to bring it up to world class standards. A few clews: any mod should look like it belonged their in the first place, none should break the law, none should appeal to the Darth Vader misfits (i.e. blacked out anything), and none should void your warranty, or your car's life expectancy (like ALL engine or transmission "tunes"); and also shouldn't transform your car into a juvenile public nuisance, like pulling your NPP fuse. Other than that, enjoy all the great things you can do to actually upgrade the C6 from being just another Chevrolet.
Le Mans Master
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From: Tampa Florida
There is a lot of saltiness in this thread. Lots of thoughts...that HP means you have a de-modded or previously tuned car. Noone is putting down that power otherwise. The ambient temperature and IAT would be nice to know with your minimal changes from stock fitment. Next, the most elementary of changes would be headers without question. Forget about a cam for a while. If you cannot do headers a z06 exhaust manifold is a compromise with an aftermarket X-pipe/cat-back exhaust in either case.
Safety Car
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From: Mooresville (Race City USA) NC
They do NOT reduce your cars life expectancy. lol Stock tunes are a generic tune. Your car doesnt run as efficient as it can and a tune can actually help it. No lean or rich running with the tables adjusted. Same with a tranny. Quicker shifts dont kill the tranny as much as a slow shifting one as it "wears" out when slow and stock shifting is in place.
Team Owner
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And that is why such "tunes" void the factory warranty, and why not one "tuner" warranties his/her results? Gee, are you saying GM could have simply tuned the car to get more horsepower and performance without any detrimental effects to the reliability of the engine or transmission, and outsiders without an engineering degree know better? By your profile I can see you are an accountant; please tell us more about your qualifications to speak on such matters.
So because I am an Accountant I cant possibly know about anything else?
They dont tune each individual engine because it would be costly and time consuming. It is also why one tune isnt a do all for every car because even sensors read differently.
So only people with engineering degrees can design things? That is rich. Before engineering degrees were the people who created and designed things shot down because they didnt have that education?
Show me a car with a stock tune that runs the correct a/f ratio. Oh yeah, they dont. Good try though.
If you think for one minute that the tune on your Corvette is "perfect" you probably believe the moon is made of cheese.
Team Owner
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Let me tear this apart a little more because clearly.....you are in the fog.
What kind of warranty do you expect with a tune? Tunes dont go bad. Parts do.
You dont think GM ever got people without engineering degrees or people from outside of GM to work for them?
I suppose you have an engineering degree in the internal combustion engine.
Race Director
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From: Henderson Nv-Rohnert Park/Sonoma C o. ca/born in NY Rockaway Beach.
Why dont you two guys stop crapping on the OP's thread and take it to pm's.. Before you get his thread locked and one of you get the boot.. Just sayin.
