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**downtime!** · 09-10-2014, 12:05 AM

My '12, with CAI, off road X, and BBK long tubes, tuned by Travis, made 435 and 410.

After the HPP fiasco, he was able to smooth the tune out, make the car completely driveable again (it ran so bad, I parked it and bought an '05 GT to drive daily), and still got me over 600 rwhp. With that tune, and 100 shot, the car ran 10.1x's even with my old, no shiftin' ass behind the wheel.

Gearheads has done right by me more times than I can count, going all the way back to my Procharged '03. They take a lot of shit around here, but in the end, results count.

blownaltered · 09-10-2014, 12:38 AM

Nevermind, I had to stop myself. I'm glad your happy with Gearheads.

**Grandpa** · 09-11-2014, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by blownaltered

Nevermind, I had to stop myself. I'm glad your happy with Gearheads.

Good call. Not worth the BS.

**BLK2012GT** · 09-11-2014, 06:59 PM

I think my car is prime example, just sayin.

**downtime!** · 09-11-2014, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by BLK2012GT

I think my car is prime example, just sayin.

I agree with you 100%

blownaltered · 09-12-2014, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by BLK2012GT

I think my car is prime example, just sayin.

Boy that has never happened at the shop you are now going to. Oh that's right it has, so I wouldn't get to cocky yet. Just saying. That's why these threads are so funny to me. Every shop has these threads about them, every shop.

blownaltered · 09-12-2014, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Grandpa

Good call. Not worth the BS.

You have no idea what I've been hearing about lately. The guy that bought my old car, went back to them against my advise. He is now looking for a new shop, to fix it. I will tell you in person why.

**BlackStang08** · 09-10-2014, 11:15 AM

Did you have bigger plans for your car? Surpised you went with injectors and E85 with "mild" mods.

Sucks he got a crappy tune. When my car was up there for mods and tune, the morning car was a 5.0 with E85 and HUGE twin screw. When I went to HPP they were scheduling one tune in the morning and one for the afternoon.

When you say 2 month wait, do you mean he had to wait two months for a tune? I don't doubt that. I called up to make an appt and they were booked a month and a half out. So I pretty muched waited almost 2 months. The good thing is that they didn't have my car for two months and I was able to drop it off in the morning and have it back in the evening.

**rlhay2** · 09-10-2014, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by blownaltered

I know at one point lonestar was a good shop. They did all my work a decade ago.

When I used them they were remote tuning with John Lund. I dropped off a 640 rwhp car and picked up a built motor 615 rwhp car. Took it to Archie King who delivered me a great running ~690 rwhp car and I was happy...until I wanted more.

Originally Posted by blownaltered

I can tell you all shops have had there ups and downs.

I know guys that leave one shop because they have gone through motors and it doesn't run right. Then they will go to different shop and at the same time that shop has a car going to the shop they left for the same reason. I actually find it entertaining most days.

Quoted for truth! Most things are usually cyclical. But I believe in sharing. But not just sharing what I think should have happened but sharing all the relevant details. Even the embarrassing ones that usually begin "I was a naive consumer and..."

**62nalide** · 09-10-2014, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by BlackStang08

Did you have bigger plans for your car? Surpised you went with injectors and E85 with "mild" mods.

Sucks he got a crappy tune. When my car was up there for mods and tune, the morning car was a 5.0 with E85 and HUGE twin screw. When I went to HPP they were scheduling one tune in the morning and one for the afternoon.

When you say 2 month wait, do you mean he had to wait two months for a tune? I don't doubt that. I called up to make an appt and they were booked a month and a half out. So I pretty muched waited almost 2 months. The good thing is that they didn't have my car for two months and I was able to drop it off in the morning and have it back in the evening.

It all depends how the car runs this weekend to determine what power adder is going to be used. Yes the car was sitting at the shop for 2 months just to get a tune done. The same has badass builds and people say good things but IDK if it's just because we didn't bust out with $30k build.

**Midnight11** · 09-14-2014, 06:14 PM

Manny at hpp. Period end of story

**downtime!** · 09-14-2014, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by Midnight11

Manny at hpp. Period end of story

Not even close.

**Midnight11** · 09-14-2014, 07:20 PM

Yea tuned my car in less than a hour and made crazy power for what I have

**downtime!** · 09-14-2014, 10:24 PM

I know exactly what he did, but he ain't all that. Trust me. Seems to be hit or miss on who gets a good job done, and who doesn't. He installed a grab bag of new and used parts on my car, including injectors designed to be used with a return style system and a used BAP that had been modified to run wide open all the time, and then wondered why he couldn't smooth the tune out. If you take him a car that is completely setup the way it should be, from the start, then he can tune it, for sure. If his shop does a half assed job with used parts, then not so much. My car did run like a raped ape at the track though, just couldn't drive it to or from the track.

And you're lucky you did the installation yourself. If you would have been there when Frank, Jonathan and I took the KB off the car, you would have been amazed at the hack job they did on the install. I'm surprised it didn't short out the electrical system.

**Midnight11** · 09-14-2014, 11:10 PM

This post was about tuning that's why I answered it the way I did