Local tune or e-tune?

[Scruit]

There's a place about 10 miles from here called Applied Tuning that has some Subaru dyno charts on their website. Once I get my new turbo nailed onto the car I'm going to need a tune...

 

So - e-tune from Shamar or similar? or take it locally to a place that dyno it and tune it live? ISTR etune was something in the ballpark of $150 and takes up t a couple of weeks of doing pulls (on the road!), whereas a local tuner runs about $350 but will give me the car back in a couple of hours with a dyno chart...

 

What say you?

[joeleodee]

Dyno tune is the better option even though it's more expensive. However, there's nothing wrong with a solid e-tune. There's some good e-tuners around here, but don't try to contact Shamar. He passed away some months ago. Hope this helps.

[compsurge]

I have a Cryotune. Dave is a vendor on this site.

 

Tuning Alliance is also recommended (Max Capacity, among others).

[gto7419]

Regardless of what type of tune you go for, make sure that at some point during the tune your car sees some real road. - At the very least, you will be aware of whatever drivability issues are present and you can address them.

[Scruit]

I went to the local places. All asked for $500. Definitely an etune for me after brutalizing my piggy bank for the turbo and downpipe.

 

I'll reach out to infamous as they did my last tune and I loved that. Just gotta wait for the downpipe to arrive.

[joeleodee]

As I've said, Shamar (aka infamous), passed away as in died. Infamous Performance is 'm sprank' on this site and I don't think they offer e-tuning. Cryotune and Tuning Alliance are two very trusted e-tuners that have a good rapport with this community. Contact them.

[Scruit]

Ah, sorry. I know Infamous is still around but I didn't realize they didn't do etunes any more.

 

Sorry to hear about Shamar passing - he was a great guy and did an excellent job on my car.

[Mike07LGT]

BREN Tuning is also an option.. ive been running an etune on my stage 2 lgt for 40k + miles with no issues. Car runs great and gets around 24 mpg daily driving.

[ProjectSega]

E tunes definitely easier on the wallet and just as good as a dyno imo. The hard park (at least for me) is to find an open road where you won't have a chance of getting pulled over.

[762x39]

BREN Tuning is also an option.. ive been running an etune on my stage 2 lgt for 40k + miles with no issues. Car runs great and gets around 24 mpg daily driving.

 

Ive Zeroed in on Bren Tuning for my primary choice. I currently have an OTS map from Cobb Accessport and I'm pretty disappointed. I wasn't expecting much but was expecting more than it gave me. Stage 1 felt more impressive then their stage 2 map I'm currently running. How is Bren's E tune? Did you have an OTS map to compare it to? I gotta get some kind of significant result from the amount of money in mods I just installed!

[Scruit]

Hooked up with Cryotune. We'll get started next week once I have finished confirming the engine hard survived the old turbo going tits-up.

[Mike07LGT]

Ive Zeroed in on Bren Tuning for my primary choice. I currently have an OTS map from Cobb Accessport and I'm pretty disappointed. I wasn't expecting much but was expecting more than it gave me. Stage 1 felt more impressive then their stage 2 map I'm currently running. How is Bren's E tune? Did you have an OTS map to compare it to? I gotta get some kind of significant result from the amount of money in mods I just installed!

 

The difference from the cobb off the shelf map and Brens tune are night and day on my stage 2 car. Just have downpipe and catback and the car pulls much harder and runs much smoother since he tuned it