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**Luke** · 06-29-2013, 01:56 PM

Is Travis actually tuning the car? I know they used to have a good reputation just haven't heard much about them lately. I took a car there a while back and the tune was definitely lacking. Had a couple other issues as well so I just moved on. Shitty deal in my opinion as it was a trade for work job for his race car. Again, I'm not knocking their shop, this was just my experience and I felt I didn't get what I asked for.

**Oxford14Stang** · 06-29-2013, 02:03 PM

Yeah I hear you man. Honestly I'm not 100% sure. But they told us "Travis will tune it for this dollar amount" we will get a good deal since we were in uniform and our dealer has used them a few times.

**TrueStreetMotorSports.com** · 06-29-2013, 04:33 PM

Glad we could help, Let us know if you have any questions

**Rebelracer568** · 06-29-2013, 05:11 PM

I was told by Matt that Travis will be tuning my car. As far as ther reputation I haven't heard anything but every place has there problems I can go all day long on hpp, speedtek and others. But gears heads is giving me a good deal on dyno tune for my car. I'm still not 100% certain I'm going there. But I need to make a choice in few weeks

**JDBishopArts** · 06-29-2013, 05:50 PM

I used Gearheads a while back with my old Cobra. I knew/know Travis and asked him specifically to be the one to tune it and it was great. I was always dealing with him and always had great service. The guys at TS are awesome too. Great guys that know their stuff.

**downtime!** · 06-29-2013, 06:26 PM

Travis is the only person at GH that does tunes, so he will be tuning your car. Before I went with the blower, they did the N/A tune on the car, and with lt's we ended up at 435. Car went a best of 11.67 with that tune on it. Travis does good work, but he has one small issue in almost every tune he's done for me, and that's the idle tip in setting (where you car is transition back on to the idle circuit, like coming to a stop at a red light or stop sign). He either gets it too low and the car will die occasionally, or he gets it too high and the car will actually rev up a bit when you push in the clutch. Other than that, I've never had an issue with any car that Travis has tuned for me. Matt is a great guy too, but he lost my business when I asked him to put together a quote for a new engine and trans for my old '85 Capri, and never heard back from him. Guess they didn't need my $8000 that week, so HPP ended up putting the KB on the '12 instead.

**Pepperinyoureye** · 06-29-2013, 06:59 PM

Its not leaving that much on the table I put 402 whp with only an air raid intake on a hot ass humid day that everyone was dynoing like shit. I can't really expect much more even from a dyno tune. 40 HP gain is not bad.

**Oxford14Stang** · 06-30-2013, 12:32 AM

Yeah that's pretty good pepper. I put down 358 and 331 w/ %70 humidity with just axle back on the car. I now have my cai & tune and I'm waiting for a better day to redyno to see were I'm at. I'm hoping to see 400+ otherwise I may take Steve's place as the "slowest 5.0" lol

JesseJames5.0 · 06-30-2013, 11:46 AM

Lets all keep in mind a few things first... I drove the car like I stole it for over 78 miles to get there. it was mid day pushing over 100° so a 40 hp gain on a heat soaked car is a dam good job... more mods = more hp witch leads to more tuning witch will be done in the evening where we can see better results

**G-Mann** · 07-06-2013, 03:11 AM

Numbers seem a bit high for SAE if you ask me. STD I would say they are spot on.

I ran a bama tune for about 10k miles and put down 408 STD. I still like them as a early choice when your still trying to figure out your mods

I Had to ditch Bama when I got my headers and started throwing engine code and bama's only fix was to turn sensors off and not be emissions compliant.

I've been running a travis tuned car for going on a year now. Travis was able to tune the car to 421 STD without throwing any codes

I had travis retune about a month ago after I added the Boss Intake and it
turned out pretty damn sweet. Sweet enough in fact for my 33k mile mustang to stomp a mud hole in the azz of a brand new blue 2013 SRT 392 last Saturday. Dude was running around here like he was king of the road, now he my court jester.

After Travis worked his magic, 439.3 RWTQ and 404.2 rwtq STD's (I had to go STD to make the 400 400 club) and whoever told you that you lose torque with the boss intake, never had their shit tuned by travis

My Real/SAE numbers are 422.2 rwhp 388.4 rwtq

JOHNGT · 07-06-2013, 01:18 PM

Bama 2 years ago made good tunes. That's what I'm on now. From what I've seen lately from there tunes on everyone else's they have the wrong people doing there tunes so any other mod I do, I'll be getting a dyno tune from ts. I may end up getting them to dyno tune it anyways because it does need an adjustment.

**Rebelracer568** · 07-06-2013, 03:46 PM

I ran bama several years there good for the money. Had car dyno tuned by travis on performance tune I made 412hp sae. Travis from gear heads got my car to 432hp sae numbers and car was driven 50 miles to travis. Its was 100 degrees and humidity was high. very happy with work from gear heads

**kanetrain** · 07-06-2013, 04:31 PM

I ran the Bama tunes on my car from ~4k miles to ~12k miles and it ran great. No problems at all, even when I added mods and needed new tunes, no problems.