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I strongly disagree. If it takes me 20 hours to get my tune nailed down, I'm ok with that because I'll be learning something new. This isn't my first fast car, not first car I've tuned. I've had several highly modified cars now, and every one of them that I paid a so-called professional tuner to tune has blown up. The last two cars I owned I self-tuned, including a MAF car that I full converted to speed density. I had nothing but good results.
This is my first American car, and first car running DI, but with time, patience, and a desire to learn, you can do these things. Tuning isn't rocket science like tuners want you to think. I have a good understanding of how gasoline combustion engines work, and am highly electronically inclined, as well as mechanically. I get the principles of how the C7 ECM calculates load is very different, but why does that mean I can't learn it? I'm not gonna be a sheep and assume it's impossible. Nor am I going to pay someone $500-600 every time I need a tune and hope for the best. I bought an HP Tuner so I can drive the car, log it over and over, and learn something. Instead of being so negative, why not be useful and contribute something instead of trying to bash me for doing something on my own.
This may not be anyone's cup of tea on this forum, but this is some of the work I've done myself... I've built my own engines, tuned, you name it. I'm just looking for advice on getting started with some things that people have already done, not trying to reinvent the wheel. These forums are supposed to be here to help others.
For those of you who contributed to trying to help, thank you.
tune on brotha, use the hptuners forums, wealth of amazing knowledge on there. Also check out the tuning school and greg banishes books, all good stuff on hp tuners.
