Installed a Bama tune today

[D BERRY]

I agonized for a long time about getting a tune, like $400 for a tuner when I already have a perfectly good one already. Finally went with Bama because of what that smooth talking guy on AM said. I was pretty nervous thinking maybe I bought the wrong horse. Well I would never have believed how much better this car could run. All of the hesitation on acceleration, all the weird throttle stuff that made me feel like someone else was driving, all gone. Engine even seems to run much smoothed. Pulls a lot harder in every gear! Took off from a stop sign, goosed the throttle and wondered what that squealing noise was. I've never even been able to spin the tires without power braking before. I've seen guys post stuff like she feels like a completely different car and thought, Right. But it does. I have had two prior 3.7 liter Mustangs and all were tuned but none felt as improved as this one. However all is not perfect. I now have a check engine light, and when I pulled onto the highway and straightened out I hung a leg in it and it hit the rev limiter in low. When that trauma passed I kicked it into passing gear and it pulled to 7000 RPMs just fine. Later on a secondary road I tried again in low using the paddles shifted at 7000 RPMs again, no problem. I reset the redline on setup at 6900 RPMs for a little extra margin of safety but the tune is probably set to shift at 7000. Wish the hell this had come with some kind of instructions, all I got was a tuner and two cables. Is it difficult to go back in and just change the rev limiter and nothing else??

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[whatdoyoufeedit?]

I agonized for a long time about getting a tune, like $400 for a tuner when I already have a perfectly good one already. Finally went with Bama because of what that smooth talking guy on AM said. I was pretty nervous thinking maybe I bought the wrong horse. Well I would never have believed how much better this car could run. All of the hesitation on acceleration, all the weird throttle stuff that made me feel like someone else was driving, all gone. Engine even seems to run much smoothed. Pulls a lot harder in every gear! Took off from a stop sign, goosed the throttle and wondered what that squealing noise was. I've never even been able to spin the tires without power braking before. I've seen guys post stuff like she feels like a completely different car and thought, Right. But it does. I have had two prior 3.7 liter Mustangs and all were tuned but none felt as improved as this one. However all is not perfect. I now have a check engine light, and when I pulled onto the highway and straightened out I hung a leg in it and it hit the rev limiter in low. When that trauma passed I kicked it into passing gear and it pulled to 7000 RPMs just fine. Later on a secondary road I tried again in low using the paddles shifted at 7000 RPMs again, no problem. I reset the redline on setup at 6900 RPMs for a little extra margin of safety but the tune is probably set to shift at 7000. Wish the hell this had come with some kind of instructions, all I got was a tuner and two cables. Is it difficult to go back in and just change the rev limiter and nothing else??

Sounds like you might need to datalog. https://support.bamaperformance.com/hc/en-us/articles/201369429-How-do-I-datalog-my-vehicle-

I would contact Bama so they can walk you through the process and get your car dialed in.

 

[D BERRY]

Datalog, yeah that was the advice I was afraid I'd get first. You're probably right and I did read a post on how it's done, pretty complicated. Did I mention that I'm a moron when it comes to computers. Guess I'll have to call them tomorrow with my gripe. Thanks for the input.:frusty:

 

[Warhead]

I also know that the car requires about a 7 minute idle, then 50 miles of driving for it to "learn" the tune.

 

[Vitamin E]

^what he said

 

[fordguys550]

Imagune how much youd like it....if you got the mpt tune i tried the bama, amd wasnt impressed. The mpt tune rocks. Maybe bama has changed their tune simce i got mine

 

[D BERRY]

I don't think that it idled for seven minutes but I did drive it over 50 miles. Hey fordguys this is my third Mustang with a 3.7l in it, first one had bama tunes, the street tune was fantastic. I ran 14.00 on it, 8.90s on a good day in eighth. Tried the performance tune and major spark knock. So they wrote me all new tunes and they were all either unimproved or worse so I just stayed with the street. Second car was a manuel trans car. I had a Brenspeed tune which showed me nothing at all and I had a MPT tune which was a slight improvement over stock. 9.30s was the best I could ever do with that one. Now the 2015, the engine with the performance tune pulls way harder than either of the others did. No matter what tune you mention there will be someone there to explain to you just how crappy their tunes are. Just a fact of life! It still makes me mad that it came with no instructions of any kind, yea I know just push the button and follow the prompts.:headbonk: Time to call BAMA.

 

[whatdoyoufeedit?]

Fwiw I've seen an S197 3.7 with nothing but a Bama tune knocking down 13 flats on normal street tires. No headers, no exhaust (still on 2.25"), no power adders. I'd say they are pretty good once dialed in.

 

[robertwsimpson]

nailing a tune on the first time would be challenging. Do the logging and see how they do. I've got my Bama tune waiting to go on hopefully this weekend. I'm curious to find out my results too. I'll be logging and sending files like crazy though.

 

[Fuse]

Now I'm curious about bama. Wish there was a way to try all the different tunes.

 

[robertwsimpson]

Now I'm curious about bama. Wish there was a way to try all the different tunes.

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[D BERRY]

I'm getting a little concerned here. Talked to a Bama guy and he said to change my rev limiter back I'd have to reload the tune. Which means taking it back to stock and reloading it again. Well it still runs fine and still hits the rev limiter about 20% of the time. But unless I'm losing my mind the transmission is shifting completely differently than before. First time the shifts were crisp, now the are slow, rolling I've heard it described. Called Bama back and they must have been busy cause they told me to leave my number and they'ed call back. That was 10AM and I'm still waiting!:frusty:

 

[robertwsimpson]

It's been a while since I've put a tune on a car, but unless I'm mistaken, to change anything you have to reload the tune. You'll also have to drive again for it to re-learn. Hope they get to you soon! Might not be a bad idea to just go back to stock until you get some clarity from Bama.

 

[fordguys550]

Ive had the bama, unleashed and mpt. Not only is the mpt way more responsive, it also makes alot more partial throttle and mid range tq. It also gets better mpg. Ill never got back to the bama or mpt

 

[15Black3.7]

Mpt all the way. Bama has too many issues and metiocre tunes at best

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