NOR-CAL General Chat.

[canakami]

you can afford a nice engine but can't afford to get it tuned?

Sigh...

[Vivek]

Well, what am I looking at to get it done? I'm fine with paying a shop depending on what it'll cost. I'd just rather learn at the same time too. And I was looking around for Bay Area shops and I couldn't find much at all.

[golde30]

I think custom tunes start @$500 and go up from there. Really wanna pay some1 who knows what they are doing or *poof*, no more engine.

Also it should be tuned in the car it's going to be ran in. Loads on the engine are going to be different depending on chassis.

[bmwstephen]

Well, what am I looking at to get it done? I'm fine with paying a shop depending on what it'll cost. I'd just rather learn at the same time too. And I was looking around for Bay Area shops and I couldn't find much at all.

Isnt KAmotors on this board tuning his own turbo? Might go to him for some direction or recommendations.

[e30vert]

Isnt KAmotors on this board tuning his own turbo? Might go to him for some direction or recommendations.

Yup Kameron does all his own tuning using TunerStudio and a USB plug into to a laptop. That allows fine tuning of all the MegaSquirt Settings.

WhoDWho on this board sells a Fully Built Plug and Play MegaSquirt 2 setup that is built right in a DME box and allows one to make all the necessary connections.

When you get the box it comes with a "base tune" that will start the car and allow it to run. He then offers excellent customer service to help through the process to learn how to modify the fuel and timing maps so that one can learn how to tune on their own. There is also a piece of software that works with Tuner Studio called MegaLog Viewer that is run while you drive and it logs all the different rpm ranges and throttle positions , etc . Then you just bring that data into Tuner Studio and it helps "autotune" for you.


Do yourself a huge favor and download the sample of Tuner Studio and get familiar with all of its functions and learn what supporting hardware will be needed. ie. Wide Band , AFR , What version of megasquirt you have running, etc. You are on the right track on trying to learn how to properly manipulate the MS Turner Studio so that you can self tune. If you tune from a shop then you are always on the shops "teet" . Not so if you study and learn the ins and outs of tuning yourself. It frees you from those repeat 300 dollar dyno sessions.

Then after you have done your research contact WhoDWho and beg him to give you some pointers for some Paypal funds. Most people are helpful when backed with cash! Dont expect his input unless you are prepared to compensate him for it or have purchased one of his units directly.

Failure to take some or all of these steps will result in a thread like this in the future. "Well Guys I did it- I blew my Turbo M20 and Im pissed."

The Turbo M20 is only part of the equation and with out the other pieces of the puzzle and the willingness to learn and become proficient well there is disaster in the future. Not to put a black cloud over it but there will be some level of failure in the future with a turbo engine anyway as everyone always starts easy on the boost and then becomes turbo crack addicted and boosts the shit out of the engine until POP goes the fricken weasel.

Thats a learning opportunity though! :)

Congrats on the turbo M20 ! I would like to know its specs and see it running sometime!

[Vivek]

Isnt KAmotors on this board tuning his own turbo? Might go to him for some direction or recommendations.

Yes he is, has an insane build too. He seems to know a lot about spark timing and stuff that I wanna learn.

Yup Kameron does all his own tuning using TunerStudio and a USB plug into to a laptop. That allows fine tuning of all the MegaSquirt Settings.

WhoDWho on this board sells a Fully Built Plug and Play MegaSquirt 2 setup that is built right in a DME box and allows one to make all the necessary connections.

When you get the box it comes with a "base tune" that will start the car and allow it to run. He then offers excellent customer service to help through the process to learn how to modify the fuel and timing maps so that one can learn how to tune on their own. There is also a piece of software that works with Tuner Studio called MegaLog Viewer that is run while you drive and it logs all the different rpm ranges and throttle positions , etc . Then you just bring that data into Tuner Studio and it helps "autotune" for you.


Do yourself a huge favor and download the sample of Tuner Studio and get familiar with all of its functions and learn what supporting hardware will be needed. ie. Wide Band , AFR , What version of megasquirt you have running, etc. You are on the right track on trying to learn how to properly manipulate the MS Turner Studio so that you can self tune. If you tune from a shop then you are always on the shops "teet" . Not so if you study and learn the ins and outs of tuning yourself. It frees you from those repeat 300 dollar dyno sessions.

Then after you have done your research contact WhoDWho and beg him to give you some pointers for some Paypal funds. Most people are helpful when backed with cash! Dont expect his input unless you are prepared to compensate him for it or have purchased one of his units directly.

Failure to take some or all of these steps will result in a thread like this in the future. "Well Guys I did it- I blew my Turbo M20 and Im pissed."

The Turbo M20 is only part of the equation and with out the other pieces of the puzzle and the willingness to learn and become proficient well there is disaster in the future. Not to put a black cloud over it but there will be some level of failure in the future with a turbo engine anyway as everyone always starts easy on the boost and then becomes turbo crack addicted and boosts the shit out of the engine until POP goes the fricken weasel.

Thats a learning opportunity though! :)

Congrats on the turbo M20 ! I would like to know its specs and see it running sometime!

I have all that set up :) I just really want to learn it all rather than simply pay someone to do it. I have a tuning laptop in the e34 I just haven't had time to play with anything at all. I got home at 4:30am from buying the car in LA and left for a 10 day trip at 6:30. I'm in salinas right now and ill be heading to LA again tomorrow morning. I'm really excited about it all im just a bit intimidated.

I think custom tunes start @$500 and go up from there. Really wanna pay some1 who knows what they are doing or *poof*, no more engine.

Also it should be tuned in the car it's going to be ran in. Loads on the engine are going to be different depending on chassis.

Thanks. I really want to learn about it because tunes are so temporary. If I adjust one thing I'm gonna be spending a few hundred every time.

[e30vert]

Great if you have a tuning setup then small changes are best. ;P
Research as much as possible and get some help from WhoDWho or Kameron if you dont take it to a local tuner.

[e30vert]

Great if you have a tuning setup then small changes are best. ;P
Research as much as possible and get some help from WhoDWho or Kameron if you dont take it to a local tuner.

[Cabriolet]

New wheels.
Jonny saved my butt this morning when he helped me change my blown timing tensioner. PS there is mad oil all over the streets of Campbell this morning.

new wheels

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[golde30]

Lol calling EPA on u.

Looks 10x better without those fugly style19.

[Pantless Spency]

Looks so good Eric.

[salvuhdor]

Hey to install a euro filler on my e30 I would need to drill? And the same for a US filler?

Someone is trying to sell me a "new" used u.s filler for 80 and a euro one for 50 aren't those prices a bit high?

[freeride53]

changing my major again..which means one more year at home.
i.suck.at.life.
OH WELL lol

noice. lemme guess, bus admin?

[kronus]

anyone have a thin-wall deep 30mm socket?

[mbonanni]

Wow, a few nuts were loose in the engine bay on the body harness and the car is all good now.

Yay