Has anyone ever had a dyno tune done with a local tuner, but you bought from PSP, JL, JDM, LFP, etc. If so, how much hp did you gain and how many hours did you tune for?

 

Had a friend that bought a chip from one of the BIG 3 and was not very impressed. Then bought one from a local tuner and picked up 50 HP over the other chip!

 

Dayum, anyone else ever had something like this?

 

I really hope you don't believe that!
If so, I have some land to sell in Florida!

 

Actually A-Lightning: I have PSP's chip and went to the dyno and it was down on power from what I was expecting, and since the guy that dynoed my truck uses the same software as Sal...I had him put in one of his "Baseline" chips...Meaning he starts out tuning with this chip and then makes changes that need to be made later!!! But no changes were made for my truck, we were just looking at the difference...If he would have made a couple more changes I'm sure we could have got about 10-15HP more out of my truck, But since I was just paying for a dyno sesion and not a tuning session, I just had him tell me the difference in the two programs and then told Sal to re-burn if for me ( which was free since I was unhappy with the power it made )!!!

PSP on "street" ( 93 octane ) mode:

399 HP
481TQ

Panhandle Performance "Baseline" program
( 93 octane )

410HP
503TQ


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I think you might eek out a few ponies in some cases but the biggest thing is... ... you will have a tune that is set up for your truck, and in some cases a safer tune.(no flame inteneded... ...I said "some cases")

 

You can try to squeeze what you want out of a chip by leaning it down, increasing timing, etc. There are only so many parameters you can change. Most of the tuners go with a proven chip that is on the conservative side. If you want more power out of your chip tell them to give you a "hot" chip for 93 octane. Just be careful you don't get bad gas.

 

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Just be patient about another month or so and you'll have a local option for dynoing AND tuning.

 

Tim-

I think we might be talking about the same guy

 

I am the person who gained over 50rwhp over one of the Big #'s Chips. The unnamed chip was burned for my mods and had 323rwhp on the dyno. Tweaked around with the new chip and ended up at 383rwhp with an a/f ratio of 11.3/1. Picked up over half a second at the track as well.

Dyno tuning for your particular truck is the way to go. All the main tuners are back east and don't have the foggiest idea about climate and fuel on the west coast. Just my .02

 

I agree. There's one tuner out here in SoCal that lives day to day with the weather conditions and 91 octane. It's tough to optimally tune for that grade of gas when it's not used in the area the tuner lives in and uses.

 

A-Lightning-You can call BS all you like, the fact remains it was all legit! I have no reason to believe the tuner would risk his reputation. I would think he would not be running a dyno shop and being successfull at it if he were BS #'s. Besides the track times don't lie!

 

To a point!
You can get 50 hp. out of a good chip tune!
But 50hp. over one of the top 3 tuners, I doubt it!

 

It's not really the Tuner's fault!!! Mail order chips are hard to do cuz every truck is different!!!!!! Also Climates!!!!!!! And its easy to know what the truck is gonna do after the changes when it's right in front of you...Thats all!!!!

 

Any way you can say who?