I decided to bite the bullet so to speak, and had Sharif look at my car. And to my amazement my 418 whp was actually 350 whp on the DynoDynamics dyno, go figure, lol. I know some out there are going to be saying, I told you so, but that is allright, I accept it because now I have an unmistakeable, undeniable 403.9 whp and 390 wtq on 8.4 lbs of boost. I couldn't be happier, my car is a completely different car, even sounds different.

Now to focus on Sharif, this guy was able to solve the "hiccup" my car was having in around 3-4 minutes, amazing. I was amazed on how accommodating he was, both professionally and personally (yes the french toast was awesome!!). Sharif met me at his shop on a Sunday to do my retune and thankfully, we had the car retuned to its present greatness in about 1.5 hours.

I now wish that I had taken everyone's advice and just had the car tuned by him to begin with, but I will know where to take it, when the car needs to be retuned with the built engine.

The shop looks amazing as well, it is centrally located and very easy to find on Cobb Pkwy in Marietta, right across from Atlanta Auto Broker. Sorry for the long post, but I got a little excited. I am going to try to have a video and pics of the dyno sheet up a little later this week for everyone to enjoy.

Craig

 

craig, good meeting you sunday, your car really seems to have had an awakening...and yes, Marietta Diner was delicious.

I just happened to leave my video camera/still camera at the shop, PM me if you have the vids you took (i can host both mine and yours if you want)

 

Sounds good, I will get them to you as soon as I can.

 

ON a side note, if no one here has ever heard this kid's car, dear lord, it is so loud that it set the neighboring shop's theft alarm off while on WOT on the dyno. Absolutly insane, love your car man. Sharif and I are probably going to work on some custom dumps for the TN kit now, lol.

 

Awesome to hear-nothing we dont already know though, Sharif is the man. IIRC you dynod on a dynopack before, now of course going to a DD its gonna read lower. Regardless, you went in, got a baseline and left with 50+whp-that is an amazing improvement over your past tune. Congrats to you man, Im sure it hauls some a$$....

 

seriously thats a nice improvement, congrats!! keep it up sharif!!!

 

He was running really low boost from what I remember before which really had me

Nice to hear the car is running like it should, enjoy!

 

hey one florida comment in a row, you just broke the rule!!!

 

haha is that what set the alarm off for real???

 

OMG, I didnt even think about that. I guess that did occur right after the first couple of dyno passes.

Here is Craig's before and after that we did...roughly a 50whp improvement, at slightly lower boost due to the timing changes made during the tune.

 

Yea, it had to be his car, that thing is insane. Loved it. Can't wait to get back down to your shop and talk to you about those open dumps.

 

Man it is amazing, compared to the last tune, couldn't be any happier. The baseline, I expected to see around 370 on the dyno dynamics, but after taking a ride up Cobb Pkwy and listening to Sharif, I sort of expected the number to be lower, I believe he used the term "this thing feels like a dog, dude", . Shortly after, he said he could take care of that, helped me out with the whole da## your car is slow mentality. After the baseline, Sharif couldn't have been more right, it was slow as he77, once again, thanks Sharif, as if we could expect any less.

Speaking of hauling A$$, over the last few days, I have killed some pretty awesome cars. A ws6 and a corvette (98 model), both had IHE's, put bus lengths on the ws6 and about the same on the corvette.

 

hehe, I always loved the phrase "bus lengths"

 

Nice numbers regardless of the dyno used. Congrats on the new found power and awesome tune.

 

Glad to hear your ride is now making you more happier, and yeah esp. since you live North on I-75 Forged Performance is very easy drive for ya.

 

nice numbers congrats...

 

Nice! Where are the videos??

BTW: Last summer i dynoed 210 whp on a dyno dynamics dyno with exhaust and TP's only. PROPS to you man!!

 

+1...any vids yet?

I think some vids are coming...both of Craig's beast, as well as MP's nasty Greddy open-dump tube madness.

 

Craig took some vids and I am going to host them as soon as I get them. hopefully I can have them up soon

 

Did your camera arrive ok?