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Oct 25, 2015 | 09:39 AM

#101

Unreal

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Matt sent me a SD tune for my car. Started and drove just about perfect. Took 2-3 small changes, but would have been fine without touching it. No reason to pay a dime more when people like Matt/Doug are out there willing to send you a tune that would need at most 15 minutes of minor tweaks.

Oct 25, 2015 | 12:38 PM

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St. Jude Donor '15

Not to mention his setup is a lot closer to stock than yours.. so I expect they'd have starting points that were as close or closer for something more common like his

Oct 25, 2015 | 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by schpenxel

Not to mention his setup is a lot closer to stock than yours.. so I expect they'd have starting points that were as close or closer for something more common like his

Yea I don't understand why they would want to start from scratch when they can take Doug/Matts file and tweak it and call it a day. Oh well.

I don't have HP tuners or the regular file so I can't do it myself. And obviously based on this I don't know how to tune.

Nov 3, 2015 | 08:40 AM

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Update**

So the car is back at the shop to get the SD tune. Just so happens that two days before the drop off appointment, my HD tensioner pulley seized, snapped a belt, and died on the side of the road.
ECS is being AWESOME and overnighting me a new tensioner. Not sure exactly what caused this. I also apparently missed shaving one of the water pump bosses so it was hitting the belt under load. Thought I shaved the necessary one but apparently there were numerous ones to be shaved.

Hopefully this is the last of the issues at hand and the tune comes back better than it was via MAF.

Will be picking it up Friday as long as all else is fine.

Nov 3, 2015 | 08:53 AM

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St. Jude Donor '15

I assume you're talking about the spring loaded one, not the manual tensioner?

Shaving water pump bosses? I must have missed that part. Is that only on newer cars? I know I didn't do that on mine

Nov 3, 2015 | 09:30 AM

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I assume you're talking about the spring loaded one, not the manual tensioner?

Shaving water pump bosses? I must have missed that part. Is that only on newer cars? I know I didn't do that on mine

Yes. The tensioner that's by the HB. And apparently yes only on newer cars there is some shaving. Doesn't have it anywhere in the instructions but it's discussed a lot on here.

Nov 3, 2015 | 09:33 AM

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St. Jude Donor '15

Ah, gotcha. Makes sense then.

Did the bearings lock up in the pulley or did the whole tensioner not want to move anymore? Wasn't sure what locked up. I had the bearings go out on the pulley that's on the "manual" tensioner a few weeks back.