Please post if you know of a good tuner in the west suburbs, or chi-town area. I'm looking to have exhaust work and procharger installed.

A reference from this group would be great.

Thanks.

 

A-spec Tunning in Addison, AMS in Arlington Hts, Speedquest in Grayslake, Ultimate Z in Hanover Park.

 

Talk to Tuan at GRD. He did great work for me on my Audi.

http://www.grdperformance.com/

 

Speedquest has built four of the baddest Zs in the midwest I would talk to them.

Robert or John 1-847-223-9100

 

Thank you all for the useful information!

 

Dont go to A-Spec! First..They specialize (if you want to call it that) in Rx-7s and Wrxs. My co-worker/ friend had a '93 Rx-7. He had trouble passing emissions, so he took it there in hopes of a low cost 'tweek' to get it past the sniffer. They say "Sure we can do it". After keeping the car for about 2 WEEKS, they managed to take off a precat (common sense tells me you need this for emissions), and removed an air pump. They charged him for an intake, but it wasn't installed. "Oh..my fault" was the response, and orders the intake. He gets the car back with both front fenders scratched to hell by a belt buckle. And sure enough, after all this money spent, he fails emissions again.

I had a bad feeling about the place from when we took a visit. I noticed they had a Rx-7 hood off the car, leaning on the wall, with its front edge on bare concrete.

They are just a bolt on shop. I wouldn't call them professional tuners. My friend noticed that if you weren't a high roller, they really didn't give a ****. They rip you off, and dump your money into their own cars. That way you can see what your car would look like if you got parts at distributor price, and installed for free.

Please excuse the rant, but I hate that place and hope nobody else gets ripped off.

Peace

 

Thanks for the honest input.
I'm leaning towards Franks suggestion of GRD in Naperville.

 

Zig Zag: I own a shop in Aurora, and have a 350Z. I normally do engine buildups on MR2s and Hondas, and admitingly have done pretty much 0 engine work on 350zs so far. Just installed a couple exhausts and stuff. However I am currently not accepting new jobs until January, I need time to focus on finishing up 5 engine buildups that are here. However 2 of them should be gone within a couple weeks and if your interested you can swing out here and meet me and we can chit chat about it and whatever. No hard feelings if you decide to take it somewhere else, I didnt plan on getting into any hardcore 350z stuff until this winter when I put on my turbos and buy a 350z performance part inventory. But at any rate, I love doing projects I havent done before, especially on new cars. But I am super picky with stuff like this and even if you did ever decide you wished for me to install the kit I would expect the car to be in for at least 7 days. I have a dyno with wideband dataloging to run the car on to make sure shes running clean and safe before hitting the streets as well.

If you are at all interested leave me a message 630-499-5591 and we can at least talk about it. Once again no hard feelings if you take it somewhere else and I would love to check out the car after the install if you take it somewhere else.

-Charles

 

Phunk / Charles

I totally appreciate the offer.
Please post what you do to your z in this forum as you do it. I'll keep an eye out for it.

I'll have the $$ for exhaust in six months. Then SC 12 months after that.

Geographically, I'm closer to you (Beverly Dr. right.)
I definitly like the fact that you have a 350.

Post here and I'm sure that others in the west suburbs will be checkin out your mods.

See you in spring!
Thanks!!!

 

phunk

I'm at this forum to promote my track day at Gingerman raceway on October 12 but I note that you tune Hondas and I'm interested in where you are and what you do because I live in St. Charles and you indicate that you are in Aurora. Here's a little background.

I have a Honda S2000 that is mostly Mugen equiped. It has the first running Comptech supercharger running outside of their test mule. I've been running the stock injectors with a Comptech rising rate fuel pressure regulator. I've just bought some Delphi 440 cc/min injectors and am making a harness extension and coupling to modify the stock harness. I have my own wide-band O² sensor but I think that I'd rather have a good pro do the initial tuning when I convert to the bigger injectors.

If you think that this is something that you would feel totally comfortable doing, then call me at 630.670.6050 to talk with me about it.