Tuning without an emulator?
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Tuning without an emulator?
I was talking to my tuner today and he said he does not use an emulator to tune Hondas? Can you tune without an emulator? How does this work?
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Re: Tuning without an emulator?
If you guy doesn't have an emulator you might want to ask some more questions about him and verify his references
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Re: Tuning without an emulator?
man, before I bought an emulator I tuned my car by burning chips, datalogging for a bit, then burning another chip.
It took me like 10+ hours of doing this to get my car tuned what I would consider somewhat decent. Then I bought an emulator (ostrich) and tuned my car again from scratch. It took me max 2 hours to get twice as good of a tune as the first time. I wouldn't dare think of tuning someone else's car without real-time programming....especially on a dyno, think of all the time (which equals money when on a dyno) wasted burning chips, opening ecus, etc etc.
It took me like 10+ hours of doing this to get my car tuned what I would consider somewhat decent. Then I bought an emulator (ostrich) and tuned my car again from scratch. It took me max 2 hours to get twice as good of a tune as the first time. I wouldn't dare think of tuning someone else's car without real-time programming....especially on a dyno, think of all the time (which equals money when on a dyno) wasted burning chips, opening ecus, etc etc.
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Re: Tuning without an emulator?
i also used to tune without and emulator. it all started with uberdata 1.6 and a moates burn1 unit. took forever, annoying and cost me more money on the dyno cuz i couldnt update without having to take 5 min and reburn. i still do it for friends, but ive got a bunch of good tunes in my folder from old setups ive done so where i start off is usually already close and it saves tiime.
i use neptune for my cars and real time is 100% where its at, for ease and time constraints. what program were u going to get tuned with?
i use neptune for my cars and real time is 100% where its at, for ease and time constraints. what program were u going to get tuned with?
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Re: Tuning without an emulator?
i also used to tune without and emulator. it all started with uberdata 1.6 and a moates burn1 unit. took forever, annoying and cost me more money on the dyno cuz i couldnt update without having to take 5 min and reburn. i still do it for friends, but ive got a bunch of good tunes in my folder from old setups ive done so where i start off is usually already close and it saves tiime.
i use neptune for my cars and real time is 100% where its at, for ease and time constraints. what program were u going to get tuned with?
i use neptune for my cars and real time is 100% where its at, for ease and time constraints. what program were u going to get tuned with?
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