New england performance and tune

 

My motor popped on his tune but to be all honest, I messed with my boost controller and POP. My fault. Using my own laptop/hptuners, Gwatney Performance Innovation took the tuning over; they could not get it out of closed loop. The O2 sensor was replaced still no open loop. Wasted 70 bucks and then they just started from scratch and I put my old sensor back in and it worked. The tune was bad from him and we couldnt change enough things to get it back into open loop. GPI pulled my MAF and did a full VE tune. My car runs great up to the tuned and set RPM without MAF. Then he plugged the MAF back in and tuned for it. Lots of log and tune mail order guys dont mess with VE.

GPI was able to adjust my factory tune a bit and get everything dialed in. The point is people go through HPT and think everything needs to move and thats just not the case. I wouldnt go over 15 psi WOT unless I was on a dyno while tuning. Its just not worth it. Hence my full engine build because POP goes the SS. Cause the SS goes POP.

 

what would you guys suggest me to do? he works well with me. i PMed area 47 to get an opinion. there is no one around here thats even good at tuningg.

 

you have to be willing to drive a bit. I have a dyno at my back door but if I didnt, I would have drove a few hours to DFW or Memphis and got it done right. So worth the time and money.

 

part of the water pump controller

 

Jesus if you would strip search marks car you would find so many goodies you never thought of. hahaha

 

Making 300hp per liter cost money.

 

im very selective on who i mention on tuning in various parts of the nation. the people in pa that used to do tuning have since stopped doing it for a number of years now. my suggestion is get ready to drive somewhere. email tuning doesn't cut it, and will never cut it regardless of what people may say about it.

id suggest driving to NJ or NY to get it done.

 

Yeah tell me about it. Only one I know that does HPTuners is Fran.

 

who tuned you mp?

 

I'm on the tune zzp sent me with the kit just tweaked on the dyno by Fran. Car gets oart throttle surge sometimes and runs rich. I got a date set for April 12th at ZZP. I'm going up there

 

im surprised fran would do that, or not hit me up about lsj issues.

 

It's not that he did anything wrong. I want to figure out this surging issue because it's about getting on my nerves when your in part throttle, and when he tuned it on the dyno or tweaked it I was there the zzp tune was pretty spot on in parts, he eliminated some low end knock and that. Never had time to actually take a full day and sit down and fully tune the car. The afr are like 10.5 at like 5k rpm. The car is sitting now until spring had some exhaust leak issues to fix at the manifold. What would you think could be causing the surge?

 

i may drive out somewhere and get a dyno tune. or i may not. i leave april 15 for basic so im trying to get er running perfect.

 

only problem is your 2.2 so you got to go through Vince correct? I don't remember if later year 2.2's had hptuners or not i been out of the 2.2 game since 09

 

07 and up have hpt. im hpt and james rakes tuned..lol

 

I've been seeing his name disappear on here lately.

 

James/ccss3 is a very nice and helpful guy, I appreciate his willingness to help me.. I even paid zzp 100 bucks for a mail order tune. But mail tunes are just not thorough enough, the car was not happy over 15psi or WOT. We spend thousands on parts but then skimp on tuning. Its just bad practice as a community. My current dyno/tune was 500, but every cent was worth it. I can also make follow-up runs on the dyno if I get more fuel, cams, etc.

 

james is a decent for sure but saying the community skimps on tuning I would disagree I think its more of an individual choosing to skimp on tuning me personaly I have learned my lesson on hacks

it sounds like you got a good place for tuning

awesome setup

 

^^^what would be the purpose of the water pump controller? if you would like to elaborate plz

 

they are using the pump to control the speed of the coolant to control the tempeture

 

If you need help I am more than willing to set something up for ya. We went down to NJ last September for a meet and tune weekend and it came out pretty successful as you can see with rivaladore reping us in his sig. You can PM me if ya have any questions.

 

lol there will be more. but for the time being 600 is all i feel comfortable putting through the stock transmission. no reason to spend the extra $3000 for a ported head and fuel system to support 750 if the trans isn't going to hold it. just holding off on the transmission right now until a real solid replacement is found.

i'm not using the stock pump. so without the controller the ewp would always run wide open and never get up to the proper temperature.

bingo. the glove box controller just reads the temperature from the sensor in the picture and adjusts voltage to the pump accordingly, speed it up to cool off, or slow it down to warm it up. the box underneath turns the fans on at x temperature. basically the voltage is now my thermostat.

i didn't always run this though. originally we had the coolant lines ran far from stock. no tstat housing or oil cooler, which is more of a regulator. with the pump always running wide open and no oil "cooler" the coolant never got up to full temperature. i would be driving at 85-90* outside and my coolant would be around 155. one of the reasons for the oil cooler was to help use the oil and coolant together to maintain the proper temperatures. so without that, there was not regulation. we decided to put that back on and add this controller so now with the glove box controller, box in the engine bay, and the 3 way switch in the dash i have full control of my cooling.

 

you put your thermo housing back on?

 

Viper T56 needed with adapted bell housing.