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Old 03-12-2009, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by mikedbz
He's a joker.. it's some 500+whp turbo car. I'm sure it's quite a bit lower than 16's.
OK, that is quite funny then...... I can enjoy dry humor..... when I get the joke that is
Old 03-12-2009, 12:57 PM
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Larry what do YOU know about tuning cars???????????????????

pfft just have the highest HP gasoline VQ, fastest 6spd VQ, another car in the top 10 (maybe even top 5 who knows these days) for highest HP VQ. Have some of the highest HP 2jz's tuned, fastest stock suspsension C5 vette, etc etc etc...........Customers sending you their cars from all over the world (litterally)........

Now maybe if Chris was gonna do the tune....
hehehehehe

tom

Originally Posted by SoundPerformance
Oh I agree with you on the locking.

The problem I have with it is that if a customer is now 1000 miles away, and you KNOW the shop that he is at, and you KNOW that they are reputable and you will not give the unlock code to the shop.... then that is just wrong.
Old 03-12-2009, 12:59 PM
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You are very welcome Brandon!!! I will be calling or emailing you soon with some graphic designs for your car!

I understand the shops discretion with a locked tune... they could have at least made him sign a waiver against liability if anything happened. We save all our tunes, If a customer had one of our tunes in his car and the car blew up... it takes 5 minutes to check the currant tune with the one we provided to see if it was altered. All I am saying is there is other ways it could have been handled. Either way, the customer left happy and will return, that is what we strive for on a daily basis.
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SP...PM sent
Old 03-12-2009, 01:24 PM
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OP... your best 1/4 was 16.3sec@156mph

Something seems wrong here.
Old 03-12-2009, 01:26 PM
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C'mon folks........sarcasm

Originally Posted by jduet
OP... your best 1/4 was 16.3sec@156mph

Something seems wrong here.
Old 03-12-2009, 01:30 PM
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Like I mentioned. I dont see the point in "locking" a tune at all. Especially from a "sponsored" car or someone that spent around $20k.... Point is... Customer service was horrible. E-mails prior to this event for future work took weeks to respond to..... yet i was a sponsored car.... Who cares if I spent $20k there right? I was looking into quotes for more potential upgrades there. Nothing but Vague answers really. Only time I felt treated right is when I handed the money over for the build. Even then, some things were "left Out"....I didn't expect that kind of service at all. And a simple "code" given to me would've retained me as a customer and advertiser for that company. But for now all my business and support is towards Sound performance. I didn't even spend $1,000 with Sound performance to get the treatment I've recieved and continue to recieve through conversations.....
Old 03-12-2009, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by jduet
OP... your best 1/4 was 16.3sec@156mph

Something seems wrong here.
Lol I love replies like this. I get this alot on a local board lol. Def makes ppl
Old 03-12-2009, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by tim@SP
You are very welcome Brandon!!! I will be calling or emailing you soon with some graphic designs for your car!

I understand the shops discretion with a locked tune... they could have at least made him sign a waiver against liability if anything happened. We save all our tunes, If a customer had one of our tunes in his car and the car blew up... it takes 5 minutes to check the currant tune with the one we provided to see if it was altered. All I am saying is there is other ways it could have been handled. Either way, the customer left happy and will return, that is what we strive for on a daily basis.
that makes so much more sense than locking an ECU. it seems a different reason to lock the tune than to protect against misuse.

and from the way OP explained it, the customer service was basically a slap in the face as well. I bet I know the shop too.
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[QUOTE=Motormouth;7066632]that makes so much more sense than locking an ECU. it seems a different reason to lock the tune than to protect against misuse.

and from the way OP explained it, the customer service was basically a slap in the face as well. I bet I know the shop too.[/QUOTE]

I would hope so, everybody else already knows.

Tim...what you say makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Bwicked
Lol I love replies like this. I get this alot on a local board lol. Def makes ppl
LOL
Old 03-12-2009, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeremy@Altered
Most big name shops lock their tunes. This is a way to make sure the customer doesnt do anything to mess with the tune and if they need a retune, they will need to bring it back to the original shop.


I dont see why there is a problem with this.
what happens if the original shop closes, or stops tuning the software used?
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Originally Posted by tim@SP
I understand the shops discretion with a locked tune... they could have at least made him sign a waiver against liability if anything happened. We save all our tunes, If a customer had one of our tunes in his car and the car blew up... it takes 5 minutes to check the currant tune with the one we provided to see if it was altered. All I am saying is there is other ways it could have been handled. Either way, the customer left happy and will return, that is what we strive for on a daily basis.
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OP ...pics of your car? build thread anywhere?

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Old 03-12-2009, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by tig488
what happens if the original shop closes, or stops tuning the software used?
The shop looking to retune needs to make a map from scratch vs modifying the existing map.... That is what the OP is complaining about. It can be tuned without the code, just can't be tuned based on the existing map from the previous shop
Old 03-12-2009, 03:31 PM
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Epic fail by SP.....

Larry only pushed it to 32-33 psi





*jk, congrats on new numbers* to sp team
Old 03-12-2009, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by IIQuickSilverII
UPdate

Epic fail by SP.....

Larry only pushed it to 32-33 psi





*jk, congrats on new numbers* to sp team

Sorry..... ran out of injector!! Still crushed the old HP record!!

Next week 40+ psi!
Old 03-12-2009, 04:04 PM
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so is the shop AAM?
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Originally Posted by doug
so is the shop AAM?
Sounds like it
Old 03-12-2009, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by doug
so is the shop AAM?


I've chosen NOT to disclose the shop so that there is no toes being stepped on or fueds. If you want to know the shop you can guess or do research. I didn't make a build thread b/c the build was never fully completed ( I.e tune..) The support and attention after I handed over the money was never the same. I even referred several people to the shop for builds. I have no problem with people adding thier .02 on my experience in this situation or if you chooose to bash "no name shop" though. Seems the thread is speaking for itself though.


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