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Hitman, gods gift to tuning - so he thinks.

Each to their own opinion.... But for someone that gets flown to the USA to tune ... he has to be pretty decent... :down:

I personally use Hitman..... no dramas, won't go anywhere else - but then I run a Haltech... But he is also pretty handy with a PFC judging by the dyno sheets and other members cars I have seen there.

But for other options I would use SAS, CRD or Unigroup... :P

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Firstly I'm insulted having my car called the Hot4s car as its clearly the Ignition DVD car

let me clear something up. my original workshop built that engine and it had ots of problems and drove like crap. when i took it to Croydon is was laggy, crap to drive, revved to 7700 and made less than 290rwkW

when it left Croydon it made 340rwkW on pump fuel ( won dyno comp at Final Battle last year to prove it) and it revved to 8800 rpm without breaking rocker arms. It also drove to Newcastle, did 10 dyno runs and drove back on half a tank so off boost driveability and fuel economy was awesome.

Basically it went form dog to best car Ive driven so dont use my car as a reason not to take it there when my car is a perfect example of why you should definitely take it there. I've been to a few workshops and seen a lot of other peoples work in my travels and Jim is the only person Ill take my 200SX to. Period.

Firstly I'm insulted having my car called the Hot4s car as its clearly the Ignition DVD car

let me clear something up. my original workshop built that engine and it had ots of problems and drove like crap. when i took it to Croydon is was laggy, crap to drive, revved to 7700 and made less than 290rwkW

when it left Croydon it made 340rwkW on pump fuel ( won dyno comp at Final Battle last year to prove it) and it revved to 8800 rpm without breaking rocker arms. It also drove to Newcastle, did 10 dyno runs and drove back on half a tank so off boost driveability and fuel economy was awesome.

Basically it went form dog to best car Ive driven so dont use my car as a reason not to take it there when my car is a perfect example of why you should definitely take it there. I've been to a few workshops and seen a lot of other peoples work in my travels and Jim is the only person Ill take my 200SX to. Period.

Seen this improvement with my own eyes....Jim fron CRD is the best tuner in Sydney...period.

Only two people in this country i would trust to tune my car...and JIM is one of them.

My bad I take it back, Yeah I know its Ignition but I had trouble remembering. I only bought hot4's for ignition anyway the mag sucks.

Disregard the hot4's car comment lol Ignition sorry. :P

Im sorry I want to clear up. I dont feel he isnt a GOOD tuner, however I feel its hard to own a reputable/busy business with alot of cars flowing in and be able to put the time into a car like unigroup seems to do (from what ive been told). I have little doubt he is an excellent tuner, its just the time he has and corners which can be cut (for a regular customer).

At the end of the day everyone has good and bad experences, Im encouraging people to post their good comments here.

Hitman I dont think I can say anything good.

Edited by DECIM8

How bout this.. Unigroup will tune it now and ill piss away some more money in summer to get CRD to tune her.. Slight disadvantage to CRD in summer but they may be able to work something out.

I will store the unigroup tune for winter :P

I will post the dyno results for each tuner for everyone to decide. Mods prob wont change as ive spent enough money

Edited by DECIM8
My bad I take it back, Yeah I know its Ignition but I had trouble remembering. I only bought hot4's for ignition anyway the mag sucks.

Disregard the hot4's car comment lol Ignition sorry. :P

Im sorry I want to clear up. I dont feel he isnt a GOOD tuner, however I feel its hard to own a reputable/busy business with alot of cars flowing in and be able to put the time into a car like unigroup seems to do (from what ive been told). I have little doubt he is an excellent tuner, its just the time he has and corners which can be cut (for a regular customer).

At the end of the day everyone has good and bad experences, Im encouraging people to post their good comments here.

Hitman I dont think I can say anything good.

I dont know what your trying to say??

Jim would not hand back a car that wasn't right...simple...ive seen it hundreds of times. If it wasn't right (i.e.running out of injector etc) he would hand it back with a safe level of tune and have a chat to the customer on pick-up. He can quickly tune cars because he's not guessing...he roughly knows where the numbers need to be before the car even goes on the rollers. I cannot stress to you enough and point out out to you guys he's the best this country has got.

Edited by DiRTgarage

Its just what I feel my friend.. I just dont like the idea.

Suppose its not so much an issue now as must be lack of business as I have people ringing me..

Well see how it goes anyway.

Edited by DECIM8
He can quickly tune cars because he's not guessing...he roughly knows where the numbers need to be before the car even goes on the rollers.

thats a good point

ppl assume that a quick tune is half assed, or incomplete

but its not always the case.

if the tuner knows what to expect, and already knows how he wants it to look when he's done, then he knows his shit and can be quick.

would you rather your tuner takes hours to tune your car, with a dumbfounded look on his face?

^^ agreed with Tony 100%

If they know your car, they know the mods and previous tunes.. If they tune similar cars with similar mods then also expect it to be quicker as they are not starting from a base map....

Obviously a full tune from scratch including cold start takes longer than say adding a few mods and getting it touched up.

I feel every car is different and should be tuned according, Im happy for them to load a map and retune it.

A particular tuner mentioned here took 20 mins and just uploaded a pre made map, this is why I am so picky.

However I understand what you mean, personal view once again. If a tuner had my car and had NFI it would be on a truck quick smart and off to the next.

Edited by DECIM8

CRD tuned my car twice, i wouldn't take it anywhere else, when there was a problem they worked it out for me and jim explained everything he was doing to me.

jim was very fussy with my tunes and he started from scratch(both times), and it didn't take that long.

Edited by tbag

Im slightly concerned that you started a post with "please don't reccommend CRD, you must be kidding" but you obviously ahvnt been there and are responding to " my mate's mate's mate said this"

its alos pretty rude to slander online. dont see Croydon starting threads about how badly you do your job

and as you can see there is plenty of people here to defend Jim's tuning

theres also plenty who have pm'd me.. negatively.

like I said each to their own.. I dont trust them full stop. I'm happy you've found a good tuner.

Its not a mates mate I saw the damage.

This thread has ended the way it was intended find a tuner, this will be unigroup. Not one single person has pm'd me or dropped the name badly. Obviously this means something.

FYI its not like it will hurt crd when it comes down to it how would I sway anyones thoughts? am I anyone particularly important? no.. Everyone makes there own choices in life. We'll have to agree to disagree.

Seems ive made quite a stir.

Edited by DECIM8

Pm me your concerns about Hitman - I recently used him and all was sweet.

I would have gone CRD (used them before) and they are top notch but for this particular tune (SAFC NEO) they were more than double the price of hitman (try over $500) which I found wierd as they are normally quite good on price...

Edited by colossus
Seems ive made quite a stir.

Its because your thread was stupid from the opening line...."Who is the best"? but please dont mention the shop that clearly "Is the best" Go figure.

Its like saying who is the best footballer in the A League but please don't say Joel Griffiths!

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