Tony wrote: Some ECU remaps I have seen do not 100% close EGR and I know of several that ended up with manifold removed for cleaning.
snowman wrote:welcome to the club.....on both counts. Tune and customer service .
....check your back window as well.
revolutiontriton wrote:So I finally got around to getting my tune done, I booked it in March then decided to fit a safari snorkel and red back exhaust to try save me having to fork out for another tune later on
Had it tuned at an Ecutek dealer in Rhodes. (I'm sure that says enough)
Holy snappin duck bills! The old girls got some pull now (old isn't the right word as it only has 30k on it)
Interesting day though.
Dropped it off and got a call an hour later. "The egr is covered in soot, to get the best out of your tune we recommend giving the manifold a clean and running our special flushing machine on it to clean it all out"
At what cost you ask??? Only an additional $800-1200
It's had a catch can on it since almost new and had the 30k service and valve adjustment the week before which the dealer said nothing of carbon build up. So I called bs on that one and decided not to do it for obvious reasons.
Picked up the car, wasn't told too much about what happened with the tune. Took off at the lights thinking it was going to tear the rubber off the wheels but no.....
An unbelievable cloud of thick black smoke billowing from the rear, the sounds of a suffocating engine and the power of a peddle car. Thinking to myself WTF have they done to my car???
Got off Victoria rd and found that the hose to the intercooler was hanging by the wayside!!!
Why they took this off in the first place I have no idea, but clearly covering the rad support and fuel cap in promotional stickers was more important!!! Idiots!
Fixed that up and had a good run home on the M1. the power is definitely noticeable. Any gear, any speed, put the foot down and she goes. Sooner than you know you've hit $1.40 and need to back off.
I would say there is no more noticeable soot than previously and lag seems to be a thing of the past
Unfortunately I did only get a road tune, I believe because I bought it when there was a sale on meant that when I did enquire about a pass on the dyno they wanted an absurd amount of money. I would like to have the hard figures on paper though so will probably take it to another Ecutek tuner some day for a run.
In the mean time Ecutek delivered the goods but would prefer to spend my money elsewhere next time round!!
revolutiontriton wrote:P.s is there some kind of secret hand shake I need to know now
revolutiontriton wrote:I agree, it is a hefty wad of cash. But if I was in the show room and test drove both cars, one tuned one not, I'd happily pay the extra and get the tuned one.
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