Anyone do their own tuning?

[TGGT]

I’ve been hanging around tuners for 20 years or so and have been in the mix from one degree or another. Mostly jdm stuff and recently a lot of gm stuff so I have a good base understanding, but it’s definitely not something you just jump into nilly Willy and start making changes.

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[engineermike]

The easy button is definitely to call a tuner and order a tune. I’ve searched like hell and can’t find any easy buttons in hptuners. It definitely has to be something you want to learn, else you’ll see it as more of a pain than a positive experience. Any one particular aspect can take weeks to figure out, beyond the simple stuff we talked about changing.

 

[TX-Ripper]

It’s not that bad, but you have to know what to look at.

Most people make the mistake of trying to do too much.

The most important thing is learning the scanner, And make a friend or 3 that tunes Fords.

 

[TGGT]

It’s not that bad, but you have to know what to look at.

Most people make the mistake of trying to do too much.

The most important thing is learning the scanner, And make a friend or 3 that tunes Fords.

Definitely. Small changes to one thing at a time. Friends in the biz are always a good thing too.

 

[TX-Ripper]

Your in a way better place today, there are probably more then 20 people on this forum that post regularly that could tune your car, and a hand full of them do it professionally

Most of what you need to know has been posted a bunch on hptuners forum.

 

[TGGT]

Your in a way better place today, there are probably more then 20 people on this forum that post regularly that could tune your car, and a hand full of them do it professionally

Most of what you need to know has been posted a bunch on hptuners forum.

There is definitely a wealth of information on the hp tuners forums and a lot of very smart individuals

 

[TX-Ripper]

And their all around here on this forum also.

 

[TGGT]

And their all around here on this forum also.

I’m feeling like your perhaps one of these people

 

[TX-Ripper]

I’ve tuned some, but that’s not what I was getting at.

I think a lot of the time people don’t get answers here because of the Lund, pbd, Aed fans jumping on anyone but their fav flavor of the week (all great tuners and probably the most experienced, but not the only ones)

 

[Plimmer]

Your in a way better place today, there are probably more then 20 people on this forum that post regularly that could tune your car, and a hand full of them do it professionally

Most of what you need to know has been posted a bunch on hptuners forum.

Agree, I’ve been on HPTuners forum since 2015, the reason why new tuners on the forum sometimes feel the others aren’t helpful is because they are probably asking a question that gets asked 8 times a year, so eventually the experienced guys get tired of repeating the answer over and over. Better to post a question saying you searched and couldn’t find an answer, post your log and tune. That will usually get someone to post a suggestion.

Also don’t be scared to try something and see what happens. Change one thing at a time, flash it in then log and check. When I was first learning the mysteries of the coyote tune I would spend hours going up and down my test road try to see what each change did in a log and how it felt seat of pants. There are still plenty parameters that I have no clue what they do.

 

[TX-Ripper]

I couldn’t of said it better myself.

at some point in time each person that chooses to get behind the keyboard has to take some kind of ownership of their tune.

If you want everyone else to give you the answer and you don’t want to take the time to do a little search and some reading and then test some things you are in for a hard time.

 

[TX-Ripper]

You have to ask the right question, post your tune and post a log.

And by log I mean something useful not some random pids that you pulled out of your @ss.

 

[TGGT]

I’ve been doing the one thing at a time approach, which I’m sure is the only way to truly isolate whether or not the desired affect was obtained. Lately my pursuit is trying to pull timing on the shifts to see if that helps with trans longevity. I think I see it pulling timing in the log, but I’m not 100 %. I think it happens so fast that the time line in the log doesn’t Match up to when the timing is actually being pulled. Perhaps if log less pids the timing of everything will be more accurate

 

[TX-Ripper]

If you’re specifically working on one area like transmission tuning make sure you have a config file set up just for that with only the pids you need.

And you can change the polling rate of how fast individual pids are hit by the scanner.

 

[TX-Ripper]

I’ve been doing the one thing at a time approach, which I’m sure is the only way to truly isolate whether or not the desired affect was obtained. Lately my pursuit is trying to pull timing on the shifts to see if that helps with trans longevity. I think I see it pulling timing in the log, but I’m not 100 %. I think it happens so fast that the time line in the log doesn’t Match up to when the timing is actually being pulled. Perhaps if log less pids the timing of everything will be more accurate

On the left is Base aka Alt 0 aka "shift character configuration” 0 (normal drive), and on the right is Drag aka Sand aka Alt 2 aka "shift character configuration" 2 (drag mode)

Drag mode pulls little too no timing and base pulls as much as needed to only allow 391 engine torque

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