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Top Swap Tuning

Traeger2591

Traeger2591

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Hey guys it's been awhile since I've posted anything, I've been busy with school. Anyway I've still been looking at top swapping my gt and I wanted to know an answer to yet another question haha.

I already know that I'm gonna need a tune but my question is, should I take my car to a place to tune it, or would I be fine just ordering one off the internet and putting it in after the swap is done. It's just a problem for me because there's no places around me that tune that I know of. I live in central Illinois, Springfield area. I don't really feel like purchasing a tuner myself either so that's not really an option. I just don't see how I would be tuning my car during a swap when the nearest tuning shop is probably 3+ hours away. Thanks guys.
 


ZZP or intense could probably sell you an over the counter top swap tune so you can run it on low timing and low boost for a little bit, but itd be nicer to get it tuned from a driving session or a dyno. i think street tunes make the car run better because you find the areas in your tune, transmission settings, etc that you tune those out as well. a dyno would be for all out power. both might not be a bad idea.

if youre going to be in this for a while just do yourself a favor and buy an HPTuners suite. its literally the best option you have so YOU can make your car run how YOU want. scan all the time, tweak on the fly when youve got 10 minutes to screw around. i wish i would have bought one when i could have.
 
I run a "top-swap" tune from Intense. As far as im concerned that's the only pcm mail in tune you should be looking at. I have no knock and the car runs pretty good. There is way more potential in there but, for right now i want it to run safe. You should really look into a tuner and learn how to tune yourself for later. Soon ill be purchasing hptuners.
 
Bio248 said:
if youre going to be in this for a while just do yourself a favor and buy an HPTuners suite. its literally the best option you have so YOU can make your car run how YOU want. scan all the time, tweak on the fly when youve got 10 minutes to screw around. i wish i would have bought one when i could have.
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Don't I have to like buy credits and stuff though once I run out of the ones that come on it? How much do those cost? The credits I mean?

99prixgt said:
I run a "top-swap" tune from Intense. As far as im concerned that's the only pcm mail in tune you should be looking at. I have no knock and the car runs pretty good. There is way more potential in there but, for right now i want it to run safe. You should really look into a tuner and learn how to tune yourself for later. Soon ill be purchasing hptuners.
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Thanks for the info. I'll look at the intense tune, and also buying a tuner. I'll just have to learn alot about tuning.
 
when you buy it i think it comes with 4 credits or something, otherwise a credit is 50 bucks a pop.
 


01GTP said:
comes with 8 iirc. You only need 2 to do your car as many times as you want.
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? Can you explain this? So you mean you don't use a credit every time you tune your own car after 2 tunes? I'm confused with the whole credit thing. Sorry, but thanks for the help.
 
Traeger2591 said:
? Can you explain this? So you mean you don't use a credit every time you tune your own car after 2 tunes? I'm confused with the whole credit thing. Sorry, but thanks for the help.
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2 credits (I think, might be more or less) unlocks your car for you. You can tune it as many times as you want. You can use the other credits to add other cars if you ever need to.
 
Sabrewings said:
2 credits (I think, might be more or less) unlocks your car for you. You can tune it as many times as you want. You can use the other credits to add other cars if you ever need to.
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Oh ok. That makes alot more sense now. Now that I know that, I understand how much of a better deal it is. I always thought it was a waste if you had to buy more credits for every time you tuned a car haha. Thanks for explaining that. Now, I need to learn how to tune without destroying my car haha.
 
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