I was looking into buying an X-cal tuner from you.

Do you do in-house Dyno tunes at your facility?

If so, could I actually go to your shop, purchase the tuner and have it tuned that day?

Thanks,
Keith

 

Do it over the phone.

 

I will if the simple answer is yes.

I'm only asking here because I'm sure there are other people that would be interested in doing it also.

 

Hi khendrix2374,

A perfectly reasonable question!

And the answer is basically yes - here's the deal......right now we just recently acquired a new building for our next shop to move in to (had to have more space!), so we are in the beginning of building that out inside to move into. We are also ordering a brand new dyno, we're actually spec'ing that out as we speak, so it will be a little while (probably a few months) before it is actually built, delivered and running in this next building.

So for the interim period, we are using a new Dynojet rental facility that is just down the road from us a bit - we have access to it any time we want, so we have used it for our last couple of Dyno Day events and done a lot of tuning there.

How we have always worked out dyno tuning, whether we do it in-house, down the road or if we travel somewhere for a Dyno Day event, is that we require at least 3 vehicles be scheduled in on the same day, as it takes several people from our staff to make this work - a dyno operator, a general helper, and then me doing the tuning, at a bare minimum. So in other words, it's not like someone can just drop by and we can drop everything we're doing and tune them on the spot, they always need to be scheduled in so we can allocate our human resources.

So the answer is yes - you can come here and we can put you on the dyno and tune your vehicle so that you can get your tuner and leave with it that same day - we simply need to schedule you in. If you can get 2 other people (whether it's F-150 Online members or other friends, etc. is fine) plus yourself so that we have at least 3 vehicles to tune on the same day, we'll get you scheduled in as quickly as possible!

PS - anyone seeing this post who wants to get in on a dyno-tuning session give us a call and we'll make it happen as soon as we have a minimum of 3 vehicles.

 

Awesome!

IM in far western Kentucky, roughly 8 hours away. I am always up for a road trip and if I made this road trip, I'd be getting a little more than a vacation out of it!

I've been wondering about this for a while now, just never called to ask.

Sounds like you'll be hearing from me in the future .

Thanks,
Keith Hendrix

 

I'm interested Mike....where are you in VA? I'm coming from the Philadelphia area.

George

 

I feel a road trip coming

 

Heck, I'm all the way in California, and I'm actually thinking about it It would take A LOT of convincing my wife to be able to do this...

It's amazing what we're able to justify to ourselves once we get the 'bug'.

 

Haha Good luck!

I mentioned it to my girlfriend... She just laughed and said ok.

She knows Im obsessed with my truck.

 

You can count me in. Nov 19th would be awesome, but i'm up for about anytime, if i'm not on travel for work. This time I'm not bringing the wife. That way I can stay till whenever its done.

 

Yep, i'm ready!!!

 

Im here in Virginia, Where ya be!

 

I think the 540 area code is out there by Roanoke (SW VA). BTW is there a wait on the XCal2 for the 5.4L 3V or are they shipping out immediately?

 

i'll be at the next dyno session Mike holds, I'm kind of waiting around til it is scheduled at which point i'll send my blower out to be ported prior to the session. looking forward to it. the last event was held in Salem, VA.

 

Wow, looks like we have more than enough people already - I should have known!

OK, tell you what - right now, I'd say let's call the next Dyno Day for Saturday, November 19th - and depending on how many people we have, we may run over into Sunday the 20th as well!!

As far as the location, for now to make things easy since our new dyno most likely won't be up & running by then at the new shop, we'll do it at the same place we did the last 2 times, the new Dynojet 248 facility in Roanoke (well, Salem to be exact). So for those of you wanting to find out how far, etc., just plug in Roanoke, Va into your MapQuest, etc and that'll give you the scoop.

We'll go ahead and start taking appointment schedule calls first thing tomorrow (that's Tuesday, October 18th) - so you can start calling to schedule in RIGHT NOW, basically.

Now in the past, we've usually gotten started around Noon and run until about 10 pm at night - however, I'm thinking that we should get started by no later than 11 am, and if we can make it happen sooner, even better, but we'll call it officially 11am wheels-down time for the first truck on the dyno. 11 am would be the ticket to allow everyone travel time, and us setup-time.

Now we normally have no problem scheduling in any time for this dyno, as we do a lot of work there and it's just down the road from us - we'll call them first thing tomorrow morning and get booked in officially, but basically, everyone can go ahead and call in to set their appointment times now.

Now here is how this really needs to go: everyone who is going to be dyno tuned, we will need to send you our CPW's (custom program worksheets) and have a preliminary tune done BEFORE you hit the dyno - so we need to get started on this pretty quickly. That way we minimize dyno time & dyno fees, as it does take time to create tunes from scratch (which is the only way we work, we don't use any pre-built nonsense, each truck is custom-tuned from scratch).

Sooo...........everyone who wants in on the Dyno Day, needs to know pricing, details, etc., please call us ASAP (we won't be discussing those details here!), we'll email our your CPW's, please get them filled out & sent back to us ASAP, and we'll have preliminary tunes built for you - now for those who you who we have already tuned and simply need some adjustments, same thing applies - we still want current CPW's, and I will check your existing tune dates to see if I want to completely re-do them from scratch, or whether I will just dial them in on the dyno - it's really a matter of how long ago they were done, so that everyone get the full benefit of our very latest R&D so they can get absolute highest possible performance, etc.

And we will also take those who simply want to get their vehicle on a dyno to see what it makes - so you don't have to be buying a tune to get in with us that day.

So thats it - next Dyno Day is Saturday November 19th as things stand right now, and we'll get the first truck rolled in at 11 am and go at it all day long. We'll make sure lunch is there, and provide soft drinks for everyone, too.

And just so we're clear - on this Dyno Day, we will be happy to do new tunes as well as tweaking outstanding tunes we have already done, and once those are done then anyone else that just wants to get on a dyno to see their numbers without being tuned, you are also welcome!!

We want the CPW's done ASAP so we can see who needs scratch tuning and whose tunes we can dial in & thus get those files located & bring with us, etc., to make this as productive as possible and so we can get things together on our end as quickly as possible.

If anyone happens to just show up that day without an appointment, we will TRY to get to you, but cannot guarantee it, that depends on how many others we have there - if at all possible, we'll do it, but basically, if you want in on this day, you need to call us and book in as quickly as you can, as these slots tend to go pretty quick. Yes, we can roil it over into Sunday if there are enough vehicles, but just call us as quickly as you reasonably can, so we can schedule everyone in, and know if we need to be there Sunday too or not, etc.

Gosh, that came together pretty quick!