Wow is all I can say! I have found 2 tuners in this area and the cheapest one is $600. Thats pretty outrageous. They do my Z06 for $450, but I cant imagine why the $150 difference between the 2 cars.

 

Is this a full on dyno tunning with some road time touch up or what?

 

For $600 its full tuning on a dynojet and data-logging on a short drive also. Most places charge $100-150/hour here in California for tuning. Even my sons Yamaha R1 cost $400 to tune on a Mustang dyno..here is video of the beginning of that tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAaUH2DwyYU

 

Thats really sick man. One of my soldiers used to tune cars in Japan before he joined the Army and offered to road tune my ride for me. Then again, I don't know if I want a tuner who specializes in Japanese motors with almost no HPT experience to tune my car. Not saying he couldn't do it, just that it would take him a lil to get comfy and I don't want my car to blow up.

 

Yea the places that do alot of Vettes around here using HPtuners are a little apprehensive in doing the Cobalts for some reason. Probably they dont have alot of experience with them yet cause there aint many around here.

Im about tempted to buy HPtuners and start doing it myself.

 

HPtuners is 700 bucks so if someone is trying to charge you 600 to tune your car you might as well spend the extra 100 and do it yourself.

 

how hard is it to tune your car. do u have to have alot of mechanical experence if u have ur own hptuner.

 

Where are you at? I live in nor cal also.....

 

Its not something you can just jump right into and do it. Quite a bit of reading and learning to do and lots of options on different adjustments. Id probably learn it on some POS car till I was comfortable with it on my nicer ones.

 

Im using HpTuners right now and it takes a while to learn. Where do you live in Nor Cal? Im in Fremont.

 

East bay Walnut Creek

 

$150 per hour x 4 hours = $600


Seems kind of reasonable to me considering they expect to put the car on the dyno, tune it, take it off, road test and tune.

Its not like cobalts are especially fun to tune, they have alot less functions with hpt then with the big v8's.

 

Yes its not out of line I supppose, but just caught me by surprise its $150 more than my Z06 is to tune.

 

We have alot of Nor Cal meets if you want to go to some.

Its alot easier to tune a N/A car. Thats probably why it cheaper.

 

The Balt is actually my sons car, but I do most of the posting (altho he does have his own name on here and post a little bit) with questions and such since I do most of the wrenching on it while he helps and learns.

Hey how much did your SSC springs lower you car? He wants the Eibach Sportlines, but im researching some other options. Just dont wanna jump in to buying certain brands too fast (like our Fujita CAI which was a POS fit) before see all the options since the Eibachs arent actually for the 07's they say but im trying to find out why. I want to get a wideband/gauge now though as I think thats the most important gauge to have on the car now as the 2.85 pulley is going on as soon as we get the damn red loctited bolts off!

 

It makes it SO much easier if you have someone who knows how to tune teach you how, and the better they are the easier you will learn because they will understand any problems you may have with the learning process as they have been in your spot at one point in time.

 

I actually love the ssc springs. I think it lowers the car just enough to give a good stance and its not to low where if grounds out on every bump. Here is a review of the ssc springs. Go further down the thread to get some pics of before and after.
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/suspension-67/zzp-ssc-springs-27647/
You and your son are invited to any of the meets we have. This weekend were actually going to install a set of the ssc springs on a friends car. I need to put on my other blower and my new brakes and rotors. Its going to be a mod weekend

 

That is high..but even down here in socal cheapest place i found for a full tune and dyno was 475...still pricey to me..but i never had a car tuned b4.

 

it doesn't take 4 hours to tune a cobalt.
it takes 15 mins to build a decent base map. then maybe another 1 hour at max to fine tune it.

just remember, you tune something on a dyno, it will run different on the street.

 

Their talking about a dyno tune, then a touch up on the street.

 

ok so who here on the forum is in socal that has hptuners..that knows how to tune..ill drive to you to have the stage 2 tune touched up for my mods.