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Old May 25, 2010 | 03:56 PM
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I think that term2 is pretty much the reason why everyone on here is so fuel trim obsessed.
pitch fork and riot? idk man some of those intakes have caused some whack ass issues.
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Old May 25, 2010 | 04:42 PM
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Nothing negative against him, he only seems VERY **** with how he tune his car and he has a lot of people listening to what he says on here, so that kinda create the panic imo. But that can be something good sometimes (the being perfectionist part). I think that the intakes causing the most issues were not in the 3-4% range either. Hell, even if an intake would be in the 15-20% error range, but consistently there it wouldn't be much of an issue to tune.
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Old May 25, 2010 | 05:01 PM
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dave is very very ****... but everyone on here freaking out is redicuous...
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Old May 25, 2010 | 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by jb09ss
Nothing negative against him, he only seems VERY **** with how he tune his car and he has a lot of people listening to what he says on here, so that kinda create the panic imo. But that can be something good sometimes (the being perfectionist part). I think that the intakes causing the most issues were not in the 3-4% range either. Hell, even if an intake would be in the 15-20% error range, but consistently there it wouldn't be much of an issue to tune.
lol no man, I heart term2. It is the general public here thats the issue. They take what anyone 1 person says and believe it as 100% truth with out doing their own research. I could make a post saying the lsj stock intake works way better and has 0% trim issue and people would take me seriously...maybe. I'm known to be...odd Term2 is a trusted tuner, people take his advise seriously. And with his experience there is reason to believe him. I'm not saying I dont. Just stating a fact. But I think byt said he didnt have an issue tuning x intake while term2 did. Well you also have to take in the fact their environments, term2 in florida with WAY different weather, I'm in minnesota and byt is in cali (i think). Tunes between those states will differ.

You are correct, the intakes causing issue were giving huge error ranges. Thats what I want to avoid. I am saying a proper intake should give small error ranges with in reason WITHOUT a tune. Having to tune an intake to make it work properly is great for tuner but not standard people. I dont want my gmstage 1 ecu to have to be tuned to run a intake. I think the proper intake will run small error ranges w/o tune and be a great intake to tune for. I got a 2nd pcm to tune on, I'll get hpt this summer and I'm just waiting on intakes to see how they pan out. We didnt have this much issue on intakes for the ms3 di engine. Cobb and cp-e's sri had the maf right after the filter but with a venturi and the maf wasnt a slot loading one. I wonder if the slot loading maf can cause this too? has anyone taken off the box of the maf to expose the sensor better?
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Old May 25, 2010 | 05:45 PM
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lol no man, I heart term2. It is the general public here thats the issue. They take what anyone 1 person says and believe it as 100% truth with out doing their own research. I could make a post saying the lsj stock intake works way better and has 0% trim issue and people would take me seriously...maybe. I'm known to be...odd Term2 is a trusted tuner, people take his advise seriously. And with his experience there is reason to believe him. I'm not saying I dont. Just stating a fact. But I think byt said he didnt have an issue tuning x intake while term2 did. Well you also have to take in the fact their environments, term2 in florida with WAY different weather, I'm in minnesota and byt is in cali (i think). Tunes between those states will differ.

You are correct, the intakes causing issue were giving huge error ranges. Thats what I want to avoid. I am saying a proper intake should give small error ranges with in reason WITHOUT a tune. Having to tune an intake to make it work properly is great for tuner but not standard people. I dont want my gmstage 1 ecu to have to be tuned to run a intake. I think the proper intake will run small error ranges w/o tune and be a great intake to tune for.
Nick (BYT) lives in PA otherwise I totally agree with that post lol
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Old May 25, 2010 | 05:51 PM
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90% of this site just freaks out because their fuel trims are off a little.... honestly that is the one thing I hate about that interceptor gauge...

turn that off the car runs great, feels great.... I mean honestly a -3% LTFT isn't a make or break for your cars power...

Term is fantastic with maf tuning.... I honestly don't have the time I'll get it close and then it's good enough... most of the guys I tune are in a hurry or like Gestapo007 I just tuned his car before he got the intake so I didn't have a chance to even tune him except throw a base map HAHN maf table in it... which worked great on my car not so much on his.
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Old May 25, 2010 | 06:13 PM
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sooo, with a gms1 tune, this intake should cause no problems is what u guys are trying to say? since the fuel trims arent off by that much.
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Old May 25, 2010 | 07:00 PM
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we have only heard feedback from hb/ss(?) so I think we need more people to data log.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 12:51 AM
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If TTR would get this groupbuy in gear I'd post some datalogs to the mix, but alas....

pokepoke.

Also yes... people need to not freak out about the trims so much. The ECM (and every other modern ECM) was DESIGNED to overcome airflow/fuel trim skew. The fact is my bone stock car runs +8 /+10. Hook your scanners up to just about any vehicle and you will see they hunt around too. This was the whole point of fuel injection, it being dynamic

Now what is bad are intakes that make it impossible to get consistent tuning results, and there are a few of those out there.

Lets also not forget that many of us are running 10-15% ethanol blends which tend to have **** quality control on the blending, at least in my area, and can play into this.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:43 AM
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To clarify my earlier comment on trims:

I'd rather have negative trims than positive because I'm running the Evap Mod, which disables LTFTs depending on how the mod is done. I'd rather be rich and it taking fuel out than lean and trying to add fuel based only off of STFTs.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Gimpster
If TTR would get this groupbuy in gear I'd post some datalogs to the mix, but alas....

pokepoke.

Also yes... people need to not freak out about the trims so much. The ECM (and every other modern ECM) was DESIGNED to overcome airflow/fuel trim skew. The fact is my bone stock car runs +8 /+10. Hook your scanners up to just about any vehicle and you will see they hunt around too. This was the whole point of fuel injection, it being dynamic

Now what is bad are intakes that make it impossible to get consistent tuning results, and there are a few of those out there.

Lets also not forget that many of us are running 10-15% ethanol blends which tend to have **** quality control on the blending, at least in my area, and can play into this.
lol finally someone with some sence...

I went back and looked at stock logs of my car and they were -7 to -9% off.... so ya know what untill it throws a code I don't care anymore.

car runs ******* fantastic... gets great gasmilage...
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Old May 26, 2010 | 06:54 AM
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lol finally someone with some sence...

I went back and looked at stock logs of my car and they were -7 to -9% off.... so ya know what untill it throws a code I don't care anymore.

car runs ******* fantastic... gets great gasmilage...
mine was -4.5 the entire drive home which is awsome. I think im good with it. There hasnt been like 1 nice sunny day for me to really see if its ****** up or anything, just been rainy humid **** weather which probobly was throwin it to the -10's other day.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:19 PM
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Ok so who has this for immediate purchase? I want to buy it ASAP, not gonna wait on a group buy.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:21 PM
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I think TTR is selling them or go through k&n directly
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:31 PM
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According to K&N website they are out of stock.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:33 PM
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ALL 29 have sold... Orders placed through us got part of the first run. As soon as they come in stock again, we will run the group buy
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:55 PM
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in for the group buy
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:59 PM
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mine will be here tomarrow. Do i need to tune for this? Running gm stage 1, cia high flow cat downpipe, and performane charge pipe. Elevation in denver 5280
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Old May 26, 2010 | 02:14 PM
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I'm in for the gb aswell as long as the dealer figures out what's wrong with the car.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by coryss08
mine will be here tomarrow. Do i need to tune for this? Running gm stage 1, cia high flow cat downpipe, and performane charge pipe. Elevation in denver 5280
Ok sorry not trying to be a dick but this question is asked in EVERY intake thread even this one multiple times.

No you dont need a tune.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 02:45 PM
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Hey im getting mine friday, do I need to tune? or will the stock tune be fine?
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Old May 26, 2010 | 02:46 PM
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No, your car will spontaneously combust without a tune.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 03:01 PM
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Hey im getting mine friday, do I need to tune? or will the stock tune be fine?
No tune needed! My fuel trims look awesome!
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Old May 26, 2010 | 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by CudaJoe
Hey im getting mine friday, do I need to tune? or will the stock tune be fine?
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Originally Posted by JDP Motorsports
No tune needed! My fuel trims look awesome!
oh baby tell me how good they are

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Old May 26, 2010 | 03:29 PM
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Picking my car up tomorrow morning
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