Self taught tuners

[SloGrn]

Is there any self taught tuners on here? Wanting to learn how to tune my car myself and wanting to know where I can go to learn how or if I'm gunna have to get the software and blow some stuff up to learn lol.

[hoogiesngrinderz]

Taught myself on TunerRT Pro and EFIlive, played a little with HP Tuners software as well.

What are you tuning and what package are you looking to go with?

[SloGrn]

It's gunna be a grudge car so I don't want to get into too many details but it is going to be a speed density tune. And on a wet nitrous set up, also it's a 98 ls1 with a manual body th400

[JoeliusZ28]

been a good 3-4 years since ive messed with it but i learned a lot from a blog by marcin pohl back in the day. I'm going to have to dust off my skills when i do this 24x conversion eventually.

http://redhardsupra.blogspot.com/

[hoogiesngrinderz]

Sent you a PM back. I forgot to ask, is it a manual valve body? Makes it much easier to dial in most of the cells

[nascarnate326]

been a good 3-4 years since ive messed with it but i learned a lot from a blog by marcin pohl back in the day. I'm going to have to dust off my skills when i do this 24x conversion eventually.

http://redhardsupra.blogspot.com/

Are you ever going to do that? Better get it done before a house, then you won't have time.

[1999Black_Z28]

Self taught here. Best advice is to spend some time on HPTuners forum, read the how to guides available for free, and buy a book. I really enjoyed the book by Mast Motorsports.

[JoeliusZ28]

Are you ever going to do that? Better get it done before a house, then you won't have time.

Not worried about a house. I'd like to start planning the swap by modelling it all out in my basement but ultimately it comes down to money and time. Right now i am focused on getting my health in tip top shape as well as my career, i am going to have a busy year.

[Nocooler]

With hptuners most of the work is getting it setup to log properly, then you can drive around and copy/paste.

I know enough to be dangerous

[SloGrn]

With hp tuners I'd only get some many credits and by credits does it mean different vehicles or how many times I can change the tune on my own vehicle?

[hoogiesngrinderz]

HP Tuners comes with 8 credits, each car will use 2 credits but they can be tuned unlimited times with your HPT VCM Suite. One credit cost $49.99

OS upgrades cost two credits.

Their credit system is kind of hard to get used to...

[SloGrn]

What does efi live cost when they upgrade they're os

[hoogiesngrinderz]

efilive doesn't cost extra to go with a custom OS, just one vin license (except for 97-98 PCMs, they're free) to unlock it for tuning with your EFIlive suite. Not sure if EFIL has a custom OS for the 97-98 though

[Nocooler]

Credits are used to license the software.

This explains it better than I can:

http://www.hptuners.com/products/vcm...creditsfaq.php