I agree! I mean all of us will critique others tunes, but THIS is just pure ****! It had me scratching my head...

 

These discussions generally go sideways quickly, so I ask that anyone entering the conversation PLEASE continue to keep it as civil as it currently is, and PLEASE bear in mind that James is unable to post here in his own defense.

 

pm and ask zrated89 for one of them. he pulled out a toasted customers car's heart.

 

This could go bad very fast. I will say that I was a longtime customer of James for both my LSJ and LNF. My LSJ ran great and I have zero complaints. Amy LNF on the other hand blew up while logging a tune of James. When the file was pulled there were ALOT of major flaws that could have lead to it. None the less I took the chance of my car being tuned and it blew up, not blaming anyone but it is quite interesting that it blew up during a log session.

 

And I do find that wrong. I've been building cars for years and seen people mess with stuff and come back to me saying this is messed up knowing it wasn't nothing I did. In his defense he did tell me how to adjust boost sooner but told me be careful with it. All I ever messed with was tq management. Not saying this guy did but there is alot of stuff here I don't see James doing. Just my .02 and I'd take up for any tuner if I knew there work

 

some1 is probably relaying it to him
like bin laden to the outside world

 

I think Term has a couple as well, from 07ssyellow and his brother after Chris engine burned down. I don't have all the details on that so I hope that I am not speaking out of turn. If so, I apologize.

I think that James tunes Chris' car just before it fried, but I was only on the periphery of that one and could be way wrong. I know for a fact that Term tuned both of the sedans after Chris's engine was rebuilt.

 

And I tried blowing mine up never could. Idk things happen its a chance we take. I've seen plenty Hondas go up in smoke during tuning. So blaming the tuner isn't always right. Considering the guy I know tuning them has the fastest cars at ifo when he goes.

 

Actually no I'm on the group on Facebook.

 

Well I guess it's time for me to jump in here and set the record straight since this is my car that had this tune from James that we are talking about. First off, James helped me a ton installing parts and gave me great service. I drove to his house in Kentucky and he tuned me there. This is no base file. We were logging and tuning for hours. I like James, great guy and always willing to help. But to say he doesn't disable codes is pure b.s. Nobody has hooked up to my car in over a year since James tuned me. I saw the misfire codes disabled last night when Ryan pulled the file off the car. Last year I called James and told him about the surging issues and told him it felt like it was missing, he never said he disable those codes. Matter of fact he said it was fine to drive. Just so you guys know, I'm 43 years old, I have 5 cars and wouldn't have been driving this car at all if James had told me the misfire codes were disabled. I mean the car is an 09 and only has 7500 miles on it. I don't drive it that much anyway.
Once again I'm not here to bash James, just think this info should be out there, and hope that everyone learns a little from it, and can discuss it maturely like has happened so far. If anyone has any questions for me, pm me and I'll give you my number and you can call me.

 

I also forgot to mention that the MAP sensor settings were messed with to prevent a P0106 from popping. Car has the stock sensors, and the 255kpa setting was raised to read above the sensors capabilites. The car was boosting around 25psi on this tune. Right away on the scanner I noticed the VE lb/min was maxing out to 60#..... Obviously a bad sensor, but the settings would not allow the SES/CEL to pop the light.... I backed the boost down to 21 and put a known good safe/base file on it, and the customer is ordering 3 BAR MAP sensors.... When they come in, he will bring it to me for install and a REAL tune.

Also guys, I'm not bashing this guy personally, I want people to think twice before giving this guy money to potentially blow up your investment/car...

 

you asked for someone whos engine blew and I gave you a reference point. that is all.

 

That is correct. When I bought Joe's sedan he told me that term was now the tuner of the yellow sedan because James blew up his brothers white sedan. He also said that when James tuned the yellow one and then when term retuned it, it ran a million times better and he told me to only go to term for a retune.

 

I think James has a reputation of tuning a lot of vehicles which is why this thread has so much potential to turn badly. As any thread posted in the past have.

I don't think anyone here thinks James is a bad person, and I don't think anyone is truly trying to bash him at all.

Some people may have good experiences and some may have bad. If you are saying my car is fine, runs fine, and is tuned by James, then that's great, but that doesn't mean he hasn't messed up along the way, and I'm pretty sure all this thread is doing is telling people that he does in fact make mistakes, and doesn't ways do things that make sense, and to make sure you know what's being done to your tune 100% before driving away..... And KABOOM!

 

oh man you bought joe's sedan? I wondered what happened to that thing.

 

QFT! This is 100% accurate.

 

Well, again, as Kevin did above, someone asked for a car that had an engine that blew on his tune and I mentioned one.

That is the entire extent of my knowledge on the situation and for all I know it got hit by lightning and the tune had nothing to do with it. I only mentioned it because I thought that maybe Term might have looked at the previous tune. I don't know.

 

agreed. Kenny would have to speak further for it, but I know personally that is what I was told, so based on that im assuming he will be able to further make stake to the claim.

Theres hints of it on here too if you know where to look.

 

Were you not the one who put that 32 psi tune in Rylands car with a ton of midrange timing for that high of a boost level?

 

Area and GmTech both have the tune that was on my car when it blew up. Both of them had no idea who had tuned it when I sent it to them. My tune "was a ticking timebomb". **** happens, and every tuner has blown up a car. Just have to be able to take responsibility when it was your tune that caused the problem. James is a great person through and through. He's always willing to help and his customer service is amazing, but he's overly confident and I feel that's his downfall.

 

I don't think anyone questions the man's character. All I've ever is that he's a nice guy that always is willing to help.

 

Not 100% true. Just because a car blows up does not automatically make it the tuners fault especially if the cars owner runs a meth/93 octane tune with no meth just 93 octane for example.

 

This is why I don't want a meth kit. Cause I'm old and forget stuff.

 

Yeah that could be bad. Still think you should do E-47 if they ever put any stations close to you.
End thread jack LOL.

 

Well that's an obvious factor. That's like saying I put 93 in when my car is tuned to E and I WOT And it blows. That is 100% my fault, but I guarantee there are things as a tuner that you have done and would not now just because experience. Obviously I'm not a tuner, just speaking purely on guess. It's not always the tuner, in fact most times it's the driver. But in my case my tune was for e47. I tested my fuel and it was pure e47. Car had 24k on the motor, so I don't Beleive it was parts failure because of use. Then again it's my experience, can't speak for anyone else.