Diablosport trinity
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Diablosport trinity
Has anyone had any experience with this product and SC tunes. I'm wanting to do some modifications to my Z but learn about tuning through a product like this. Any comments would be helpful. Thanks
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A canned tune is pretty much like setting money on fire ... completely worthless unless you're trying to get an extra one mpg on your V6 challenger.
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That's what I suspected. Just confirming. Would you recommend another brand of tuning software for a beginning tuner. I would take it to a shop but I would like to have the stock tune on hand if needed.
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That's not always the case. Depends on the tuner. I had a canned tune on a CTSV that was every bit as good as a friend's tune built on his car on a dyno.
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With the CTS-V Diablo has a tune for pulley. And it's the same tune regardless of what size pulley you have. Would not recommend Diablo for a SC engine unless you get a custom tune via logging and sending the results to one of their tuners so they can send you a modified tune. You will also need a wideband to get afr correct.
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I had the Diablo on my '14 Stingray. It was the light stock tune that supposedly gives you 20HP for just running 93 octane. I didn't feel anything different when I first installed it at about 500 miles, except for maybe the idle was a tad rougher, but I wasn't sure.
I removed it the night before going to trade the car in to the dealer. The next day during the 60 mile trip, I kept saying to my wife, wow how weird, the car is running so smoothly and the accelerator feels more responsive, it just overall felt like a whole different car, it ran fantastic.
I couldn't figure out why. I was thinking, did I get different gas, was the weather different than the day before, am I having remorse trading it etc... I actually didn't realize it until a few days later, when I remembered that I took the tune off. I forgot all about that the whole time I was driving it to the dealer.
I had the tune on my car for about 2 years so I was very used to the car as a daily driver and I know I wasn't imaging any of this...
I removed it the night before going to trade the car in to the dealer. The next day during the 60 mile trip, I kept saying to my wife, wow how weird, the car is running so smoothly and the accelerator feels more responsive, it just overall felt like a whole different car, it ran fantastic.
I couldn't figure out why. I was thinking, did I get different gas, was the weather different than the day before, am I having remorse trading it etc... I actually didn't realize it until a few days later, when I remembered that I took the tune off. I forgot all about that the whole time I was driving it to the dealer.
I had the tune on my car for about 2 years so I was very used to the car as a daily driver and I know I wasn't imaging any of this...
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I would not sell DiabloSport short but wait till they release a tune for the Z06 with their dyno numbers, hell they may even do one for an aftermarket CAI and as mention there are custom tuners out there that can do modifications if/as needed over the net. "You" can make changes to their tune also if you want.
Check the C6 Grand Sport "Bolt-on" fast list and you will see Grand Sport Man kicking a$$ on all LS3s including the lighter narrow/standard bodies when running the "same" style bolts-ons which would include a "tune" either a professional dyno tune or a hand held "canned" Diablo tune like GSM used.
Bottom line: is that I would wait to see what DS comes up with.
PS: I was GSM, click on my name to the left and see the short version of the Grand Sport mods & bolt-on et if interested.
Check the C6 Grand Sport "Bolt-on" fast list and you will see Grand Sport Man kicking a$$ on all LS3s including the lighter narrow/standard bodies when running the "same" style bolts-ons which would include a "tune" either a professional dyno tune or a hand held "canned" Diablo tune like GSM used.
Bottom line: is that I would wait to see what DS comes up with.
PS: I was GSM, click on my name to the left and see the short version of the Grand Sport mods & bolt-on et if interested.
Last edited by C7/Z06 Man; Apr 8, 2015 at 01:46 AM.
