Had a ''friend'' tell me i have to unlock my ECU before i can tune it.. its the LAP motor and my understanding was only the LNF had to be unlocked to do anything with it??

 

Yes your car has to be unlocked(aka licensed by hp tuners or trifecta to be tuned. If the car has a trifecta overlay like some lnf's do then you'd have to get the car flashed back to stock before a custom tune can be written to the ecu. Seeing you have a lap motor and if its stock it's definitely not hptuners locked by trifecta, but you would need 2 credits( I think? Not sure though probably about $100 to license your vehicle through hp tuners, then you would still need to pay someone to tune your car. You're looking at an average price of around $250 for a custom tune. Just research the tuner and ask questions on here and we'll tell you if he's legit or not. If you buy hp tuners software you can get remote tuned by gremlin85 or ccs3 on these forums. In my honest opinion I'd stay away from trifecta or BYT.

 

tyvm. i have a header, intake and catback done. i have been looking at all sorts of stuff for tunning and never got the answers i needed. if i can ill tune it myself i just needed to know if i had to unlock anything X)

 

If you need to ask about this kind of stuff you're probably in no position to safely tune your car....no offense.

 

Oh none taken im just starting out with the ''tunning'' thing and i want to know as much as possible before i start.. i have some friends that are pretty good with this stuff and there gona be with me when i actually do this incase i do somthing wrong they can tell me on the spot. i just wanted to clear some stuff up on here

 

Spend six months or so reading hptuners forum and download the demo ap to play around with before u try tuning yourself

 

Sweet! thank you now i got a good place to start off at

 

This is what I did. Then I had a really good guy who tunes himself on here walk me through it / help me once I actually started tuning. If you understand engines and aren't completely stupid it's really easy tuning a bolted NA car.