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By Hicks,
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Just wanted to inform everyone that I took your advice and went to barry's today. If first impresions counted I would have turned around and walked out. The place is an absolute mess!

But turns out he knows his shit. X-speed hadn't even set up certain things on the s-afc. The car pulled 260bhp on his dyno which is a huge difference on the road, and for this he only charged 80 bucks!! This included advancing the timing.

And adam, your right in saying he always looks stressed!!

Anyways im pretty happy, my car feels like it should.

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Steve, I'm sure I heard him talk about pfc's at one point, so he has experience with them. When i picked up my car, there was a guy dropping off a vlt to have his wolf3d tuned. Since Barrie tunes stand alone management, he should be ok with pfcs.

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I've known Barry for a while now, and if he can't tune it then no-one can. The other tuners end up sending there cars to him when they don't know what to do.

I agree the place looks like a shithole, but his is a dyno-dynamics dyno, which have the reputation of being one of the best. He has a great reputation but don't try ringing when he's busy. I was standing there getting my car tuned once and the phone keeps ringing and ringing without him lifting his head.

Good to see that you finally got that S-AFC tuned properly Hick's, I'm expecting great things from you at the drags tonight, and then we can meet later to compare our cars.

See'ya:burnout:

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Originally posted by Hicks

I'm runnin 14psi through std turbo.

.... Macka someone is following in your footsteps....I take it Hicks that you are saving for a hybrid or aftermarket turbo then? Until i can practically afford a new turbo or hybrid/hiflow I am running about 10.5 sometimes 11 psi when pushed and that is with FMIC.

ESPECIALLY WITH SUMMER COMING UP! you may want to be careful at 14psi, i don't want to hijack the thread and i know this has been discussed many of times but Macka can confirm for us that running this boost aint the boost of ideas when giving your engine a bit! feels great for now....... but it's only a matter of time till your ceramic wheels gets shat out of your exhaust pipe like Mr Whippy with laxatives!

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