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Some workshops let you hire their dynos for a reasonable hourly rate. I would love to be able to dyno tune my car myself, but I wouldn't know the first thing about operating one. Where would you learn how to operate one and is it worth the effort? Or should you just leave the tuning to the professionals?

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I was thinking, what if a few of us got together and hired a dyno for a couple of hours, and threw a few bucks at one of our fellow forum-goers who's knowledgeable in this field, and we could have ourselves a little dyno tuning class :P

It would depend on how long it'd take to learn anything useful though, more than a couple of hours is probably going to be unaffordable to most people.

The following DIY projects fall into the same catagory for the inexperienced:

* Undertaking laser eye surgery

* Performing a vasectomy

* Tuning a programmable ECU in real time

good/funny to watch someone else have a go, but I'd rather leave it to the professionals:p

It'd be good, but I think theres a bit more to dyno tuning then just going WOT.

And can you even hire dynos for private use? I didnt think so. The closest you'd get is to book a 3 hr session with an operator and do what u want with a few cars..

From Unigroup's site:

Dyno Hire $88 per hour

Other tuners can purchase dyno time including the use of all diagnostic sensors for the flat rate of $88 per hour.NB: A Unigroup employee will drive the vehicle on the dyno but will not assist in the tuning of the vehicle.

I've seen others but can't remember them off the top of my head.

I guess it depends on how long it takes to do a decent tune. Unigroup themselves charge around $450, which would be around 5 hours dyno time if you did it yourself. If it took you 5 hours to do yourself, you may as well let the experts do it.

  • 4 months later...

Remember the dyno isn't used to actually change points of tune , you need the appropiate hard/soft ware for the ecu it's just a lot more conveniant than running wot down the main street to check your results. You will find they will only hire it out to someone qualified to use it.

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