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Well anyway back on topic...

Who does the tuning at BD4s, is it Tom or the other guy?

I just found out from my HK buddies that to get the HKS gear tuned it costs them almost $5,000AUD

They get some guy from Jun in Japan to fly over and do the tuning... imagine if that was the same here :(

Jim at CRD tuned my car, I found that the car had more torque off boost and less black soot build up on my rear bar compared to the previous road tune.

The car started pinging after about a 2 weeks (bad fuel?) and Jim spent about half an hour retuning it - at no cost – and it hasn’t pinged since.

I haven’t been to BD4’s

Well anyway back on topic...

Who does the tuning at BD4s, is it Tom or the other guy?

I just found out from my HK buddies that to get the HKS gear tuned it costs them almost $5,000AUD

They get some guy from Jun in Japan to fly over and do the tuning... imagine if that was the same here :(

Pity your car wasnt ready to tune a few weeks ago Stan.

Just Jap had the owner of Autech Japan out here and he is an F-CON tuning guru.

...The car started pinging after about a 2 weeks (bad fuel?) and Jim spent about half an hour retuning it - at no cost – and it hasn’t pinged since....

now here's the question.

Was it bad fuel or a bad tune in the first place?

If it was just one batch of bad fuel, couldn't you put it back to the earlier/ better tune once you put new fuel in? Or was it tuned without sufficent margin for safety on the road, taking into account variable fuel, hot days etc.

Did you get a dyno graph from the first tune? what were the AFRs? How much base timing?

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