What is the average price of a good tuning? or does it all matter upon what you have tuned? If you guys can tell me what you had tuned, and what it cost to do so, it would be greatly appreciated!

 

For a simple tune on a car that has just a VAFC for example, you may get away with $180-$200.

if you have more extensive mods...even a header, intake, exhaust...or maybe the FI route...turbo / supercharger...you can spend hundreds. $400+ to tune.

which should be nothing compared to the price of parts you just installed.

 

contact HT user "Mase"

he will take care of you

 

usually $200 bucks an hour is average.... now multiply that times the hours you're gonna need to be on the dyno..

 

6 hours about $600 bucks. Had to go back the next day for another 6 hours, but that was free.

 

$500-$1k+ for someone else to do it

I do my own tuning. I just need to pay for dyno time. That's usually $50-75 per hour. I think I've spent about $200 on dyno time and $50 of that was just to get a #. The other $150 was actual tuning.

Tim

 

I tune all sorts of cars with systems from hondata to power FC to VAFC to Greddy eManage and the dyno we use is awesome. Load bearing dyno that lets me tune a basic mod NA honda in 45 minutes to an hour.

We charge $175/hr for dyno time AND tuning. Just as a reference.

I've tuned several HT members cars.

 

One more thing. Try to drive something FI your tuner has tuned or talk to someone who has used him before giving him any $$. Many, many tuners charge big $$ and only tune WOT or just suck in general. I would trust maybe 1 guy out of 10+ with my car (which is why I do it myself). There are a ton of S2000 guys who have spent over $1k and wound up with a poorly running car that they're not happy with.

Tim

 

tunning is rough...with all the user friendly software now everyone thinks they can PROPERLY tune a car...

find a guy who is good. you can't put a price on good work

 

The thing about properly tuning a car is understanding the engine and that there is no magic setting for all cars. For example an NA Honda engine can run around 13.0:1 or higher air fuel and be strong and safe. Try that with a WRX and you will make no power and blow it up (They run at like 11:1 and sometimes I've seen lower). Same applies for timing. The last Type-R I tuned with hondata made 3 more hp across the board when we puled 5 degrees of timing from the base P28 map.

The real key good tools. You can't properly tune a car on the street and dynojet combined. In my personal opinon you need to tune on a load bearing dyno, such as, Dyno Dynamics, Dynapak, or Mustand Dyno where partial throttle tuning can be done without variable like traffic and hills. Partial throttle tuning makes all the difference in smoothness of the tune

 

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The real key good tools. You can't properly tune a car on the street and dynojet combined. In my personal opinon you need to tune on a load bearing dyno, such as, Dyno Dynamics, Dynapak, or Mustand Dyno where partial throttle tuning can be done without variable like traffic and hills. Partial throttle tuning makes all the difference in smoothness of the tune</TD></TR></TABLE>

Agreed 100%. Superflow also makes decent dynos for SS tuning.

Tim