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Hiya.Anyone want to add their 2 cents/5 dollars worth:APEXi's Power FC-who has had one tuned,either to their satifaction or not?I'm hearing most are paying for around 5 hours dyno time,plus the cost of the unit,plus installing.It'll be going into an R32 GTR,if that makes any difference.I'm positive that it's worth it,but I'd like to hear more from you all.Also,how's $1600 for both the FC and the hand contoller sound?Seems pretty good to me at the mo'...

P.S. We all need more track time,methinks....

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Hiya.Anyone want to add their 2 cents/5 dollars worth:APEXi's Power FC-who has had one tuned,either to their satifaction or not?I'm hearing most are paying for around 5 hours dyno time,plus the cost of the unit,plus installing.It'll be going into an R32 GTR,if that makes any difference.I'm positive that it's worth it,but I'd like to hear more from you all.Also,how's $1600 for both the FC and the hand contoller sound?Seems pretty good to me at the mo'...

P.S. We all need more track time,methinks....

About 5 hours is right I think. $1600 is OK, check out the for sale section they seem to be available for less.

We need a dyno in Jerra!

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$1600 is a reasonable price for the power fc and hc, you could possibly pick it up cheaper if you waited and searched around, but youd only save a few hundred $$ so depends if you want it now or not I guess.

As for tuning, had bad experiances with Evo. They just added a hell of alot of timing, and didnt do much else, and pushed the car to its absolute limits, which isnt meant to be done (a good tuner will tune it to 90% potential to compensate for varying weather conditions, different fuels etc). I was impressed by the tuners knowledge, and I have been told hed like to spend more time tuning the cars, but the management push him to just do a quick job, get a dyno figure the customer will be happy with, and thats it.

Jakes Performance in Mitchell is meant to be good, but I have never used or talked to him, so cant comment.

Ed from Tez Automotive in Mawson has a friend that can do road tunes (in my opinion its worthwhile getting a dyno tune, then a road tune, as you will be driving the car on the road not on a dyno :( ) and I have used him and cant reccomend him enough. He hooked up all these little fancy gadgets to his laptop and to the engine, and after taking it for a run, came back and I sat down with him, and he explained and showed me on the laptop how the car was running, what it was doing where, and how it could be improved. He gets my big thumbs up. I have also heard these guys will be involved with a new company starting soon thats installing a 4WD dyno dynamics dyno, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for that one :(

Thats all I can comment on in ACT, in Sydney, id reccomend Hills Motorsports. They tuned my car before I picked it up from Sydney and did an *awesome* job. He charges around $600 for a full tune from the base map, but as said he did a brilliant job with my car.

Theres also Croydon Auto Sports in Sydney who are an Apexi Power Excel dealer and have the Apexi laptop software (not the fc logit) and have heard nothing but good stories from people who have had their car tuned there. They are a bit more expensive, but their reputation speaks for themself (look at GTR700 and the other myriad of high performance GTR's that have come out of their workshop).

Hope some of this helps :P

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Theres also Croydon Auto Sports in Sydney who are an Apexi Power Excel dealer and have the Apexi laptop software (not the fc logit) and have heard nothing but good stories from people who have had their car tuned there. They are a bit more expensive, but their reputation speaks for themself (look at GTR700 and the other myriad of high performance GTR's that have come out of their workshop).

Hope some of this helps ;)

Definately go to Croydon.............

Ring them first and have a chat to them, they will tell you what to do.

They may say put a set of cam gears on before the pfc etc.

They charge about $2,650.00 for a pfc, tuning and cam gear adjustment.

In my opinion I would rate Jim at Croydon the best tuner for GTR's in Australia.

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Hiya.Anyone want to add their 2 cents/5 dollars worth:APEXi's Power FC-who has had one tuned,either to their satifaction or not?I'm hearing most are paying for around 5 hours dyno time,plus the cost of the unit,plus installing.It'll be going into an R32 GTR,if that makes any difference.I'm positive that it's worth it,but I'd like to hear more from you all.Also,how's $1600 for both the FC and the hand contoller sound?Seems pretty good to me at the mo'...

P.S. We all need more track time,methinks....

i have second hand pfc & hand control off r32 gtr for sale @ $1000

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i have second  hand pfc & hand control off r32 gtr for sale @ $1000

Thanks for the offer,but I will head for a new one!It might just be me wasting money,but there's a good feeling I get with new stufff!

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I had my car tuned by this guy in Queenbeyan who ownes Rice Racing. He did a great job and can tune the car as hard or soft as you like. I my opion a road tune is better than a dyno tune due to variable load and things like that (just a personal opion).

You wont have to fork out sh*t cans of money for dyno time either. I had my car tuned on a dyno by Dr_Drift in melbourne and got 200rwkw. Then Peter from Rice Racing road tuned it and the car feels faster with LESS KNOCK!!!!

His name is Peter Giljevic, PM me or send me an email at [email protected] if you want his phone number etc...

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Sorry to invade the thread but i like looking in here every now and then.

jake32 - PwerFC + HC at nengun would be around $1300 delivered.

Also a guy had em on ebay.com.au from GosfordNSW for $1300 but they have gone up since then (that was only a week ago)

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