Drove down to Westers Garage (http://westersgarage.eidnet.org/Index2.htm) in Tilley, Alberta today--about 200kms from Calgary.

Lyndon took the ECM out, downloaded an update from GM and then uploaded the new ECU program.

Car feels noticeably faster, heres what I noticed most:

It pulls harder in all the gears but I noticed it in first and third the most. Seems to rev up faster.

In fact it pulls quite hard in third gear over 100km/h.

Alot more 2nd gear rubber!

I love shfting at 7000+ rpm! I hated that #%#@$@ 6850 fuel shut off---I'd hit it every so often at the track.

You can feel the torque increase everywhere although its not a massive improvement (its still a NA 4 cly afterall)---to get best results you still have to wind her up

Seat of the pants guesstimate is that I can knock off 0.3 and pick up 3 mph

I am going to the track on friday, so I will post my findings.

Baed on what I have experinced so far, I'd recomend them. He really knows his stuff. While I was there, lots of ECMs came via courrier and the phone was pretty busy (some one with an Escalade and Northstar Caddy)

In the shop was a fuel injected 302 Ford Ranger, C5 Corvette, SSR and 63 Corvette Stingray with a Supercharged 350 Tuned-port.

For you LSJ guys he will be shortly working on an ECM tune for you!

 

thats good to hear...update us after you go to the track...and how much did it cost you?

 

$425 Canadian. ($495 USD reg)...the shipping was taken off since I drove there. Next week I'll do a fuel mileage test to see if it changed.

 

Good now get that thing to the track.

 

sweet cant wait for mine.. did you find out about tunning for specific mods?

 

I was gonna order the vector tomorow but which one do ya'll think will give better gain's the westers or vector?

 

Ok, I'm a newbie at this since I haven't had a car a tune was available for since back in the good ol' days of replaceable memcals.

If the car is tuned and has to go to GM for warranty work and GM uploads a newer program, is the tune lost?

 

Does your friend have any plans on a tune for the 2.2 guys?

 

Wow thats pretty sweet avro, where is that? N / S / W / E Of calgary?

 

no the tune does not get lost if you get it flashed for updates from the dealer, they won't even know its there. And from what i've seen the tunes are really pretty close to the same i dynod at 159whp w/Intake & exhaust from vector and jerryg was i think 161whp w/intake header and maybe exhaust. But to be honest there's not a whole lot of guys on here with them so its kinda hard to really tell.

 

AVRO,

Thanks for the report. I plan on doing the Vector tune in July.

- w

 

Tilley is 20 km east of Brooks. So about 1.5 hrs from you.

 

i cant wait... i hear they will work wonders for us with the auto.

 

Avro do I send my pcm to them and do they send it back within 5 days, Im in Vancouver?

 

You should give him an e-mail but I am sure they can turn it around faster then that with over night shipping.

The price includes shipping--although you do have to pay up front for it.

 

Thanks Avro Im on this in Aug