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I think one thing to note is that tuning is something of an art, opinion, appraisal.

One tuner will always pick apart someone elses tune.

You go back to the original tuner, ask him about the apparent discrepancies and I'm sure there'll be some justification, excuse etc.

You can only go by people's past record and good word.

T.

Does anyone know if the hitman will tune a factory ecu? (using a ROM emulator + chip burner?)

Got a daughterboard in my ecu and now with more mods need to get that baby tuned!

Richard

hmmm i'm contemplating doing (what might be a silly move) and going with a somewhat unknown workshop/garage out at berowra, i've mentioned them before and have heard alright things from on here and really good things from outside.

had a chat to him a few weeks ago and was pretty convinced.

i'm just scared of the old saying you get what you pay for, (dont know what he charges anyway but it would probably be less than the bigger well known workshops) coming to bite me on the bum.... but then again if that was 100% accurate everone would have the exact same most expensive tune and others would be out of business

will keep you informed

The worse case is that you hanging over all parts you want them to put in, and discover later that they have been replace with something different..and you went back there and they denied..

Also make sure you don't rely on the simple dyno print out; number could be faked, unless it's done in shootout mode....

I don't have one (yet, maybe will get one)

but I would probably go to CRD, my friend works there and I Have heard numerous good things. had a couple of small things done and no problems.

other then that, I was chatting to a guy last night who has an S15 and has had it tuned by hitman a couple times and had no probs

mark

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