I bought a superchips tuner for my turbalt a lil while back and love it! Im not in to too much more power than what i am at now (303whp and 313ftlbtq). The responsivness is great and is truly that extra pep the car was missing in stock tune. I have had no problems with this tune and will slap and hold passnagers back in the seat under full 22psi wot with a spike of 24 psi.
I eat up srt's , hemi's and pretty much all rice. Horse increase to dollers was very impressive. I use my turbalt as a daily driver (all year, pirelli snowsport winter's) so I dont have physical upgrades (charge pipe, down pipe upgrades etc. just stock with K&n oem replacment and the superchips tune) i burn the stock rubber upon wot).
Anyone else runnin superchips and their feed back regarding so...............

 

After running it for a year with boltons you want more power trust me. Otherwise great "starter" tune no complaints.

 

I have a cortex for sale if ayone interested pm me. I would tell anybody that it is nite and day over a stock turbalt.Car shoulda came from factory like that. Had mine for like 8k miles with no problems other than a slipping clutch and even picked up about 4mpg.Excellent bang for the buck mod

 

i dont want to sound ignorant, but how do these work, ive been interested but dont know to much about them?

 

it is a great starter tune, I had it for over a year and it was night and day difference over stock... I hurt plenty of feelings with it

since then, i've went the Trifecta route and with my bolt-on is the best route, but the superchips is nothing to be ashamed of... it will really put a smile on your face over stock

 

i have an intake and cat back and plan on getting header and down pipe on the ls,, would this be recommended? or is there a better rought to take?

 

lsj? Wrong section.

 

no i think worse, I think he means LS Cobalt

 

I didn't even know there was such a thing.

 

I'm not a genius in regards to this stuff by any means either, but since nobody responded to this I'd give you a bit of info.

The stock turbo craps out at 15 PSI, it is tuned this way by GM for longevity and reliability. Through testing by T/P companies and GM themselves it's been found out the turbo can handle up to around 24 - 25 PSI while still being reliable. The increase in this boost offers a substantial horse power gain.

Tunes like this Superchips tune you can purchase, plug into your car and within minutes the vehicle is retuned. The problem with a "canned" tune like this Superchips tune, the GM stage 1 tune etc. is they don't take into consideration any other modifications to the vehicle.

If you were to purchase an aftermarket intake, exhaust system, charge pipe etc. it throws off the air fuel ratio and the car could potentially lose power, run rich/lean. If you are purchasing any of these parts you would need a Trifecta or HP tune which is custom to your particular vehicle and specific modifications.

That is a very general overview of the tunes, I hope the info is correct as I'm pretty new at this myself.

 

looks and sound good to me

 

really, you could probably get away with a CP and Downpipe, now you won't see the gains of a "real tune" with them but you won't "lose power" or your car won't run like ****... I ran both with the Superchips

a cold air intake....you're going to definitely want to get a live tune

 

noob question. How do i get a Trifecta or HP tune and can you get that tune if you have the GMS1?

 

lol sorry ik this wouldnt be for my car, because yes its an ls. but is there something like it for cars with out turbos?

 

i love mine.......... sat july 31 i plan on going back to the track and go for low 13s

 

stock engine, the superchips is great and easy. All u do is plug in to the engine computer, the tuner will then copy ur stock tune and save it, then it will write the 91 octane tune into the cars computer changing multiple values from knock, air/fuel mix, boost,throttle postions etc. as well as being able to read and clear trouble codes. If u have aftermarket parts iu need a trifecta or hp tune as to get the most outta those parts.

 

The Superchips tune is a great tune for someone who is going to remain relatively stock . I ran 13.45@106.5 with just the tune . I added a catless DP and K&N drop-in later and it ran fine with them ..... It actually felt a bit stronger after they were installed .

My fuel trims with just the K&N filter were as high as -8 LTFT...... so I'd imagine an intake would really throw them off.

 

Can people with trifecta and hp tunes, tell me some numbers they r pulling and with what bolt ons? like 0-60 times and hp/ and tq numbers. Please and thanks all

 

Hp tuners
314whp
378wtq
Hahn coolram, Injen pressure pipe, Hahn3" catless turbo back
No track #'s, Havn't gone since last year