I think the fear came from a lack of technical knowledge and getting ridiculed by what seemed like the entire forum.

At least for me that was the case. I mean I didn't have to be an expert to feel like something was wrong. I have spoken out about it several times and when I did, it felt like I stood alone in the fight. There was a couple people that would also comment on my threads, but they would vanish after a while. So it really felt like I stood alone.

In my sociology class I learned about this "association" mindset people get. If you're in a group of people you don't know and 90% of people say one thing and you feel differently, chances are you change from your original feeling. This is why the Jury system is so flawed.

I went from (in order), ZZP Canned, Trifecta, James, Trifecta, James, Term.

The only reason why I went back to James is because the forum (James fans) made me feel like I was the idiot. Even though I felt like it was the tune when I left him the first time, I was eventually convinced it was me.

I still didn't like the tune when I went back and the final straw for me was when I shared his tunes with several tuners this time, BYT included and they all were surprised how bad and unsafe it was. I even shared it with one of James "students" and he also was surprised. Though he didn't say anything negative, he did say he wouldn't have tuned it that way. He said "by the look of the tune it appears to be unsafe, but James knows what he's doing and I'm in good hand and if he ran that at his altitude, his car would blow up. It must be different at high altitudes" I asked James about this and he said, "yes, I shouldn't run this at lower altitudes"

Vince said it best IMO, "James is the type of tuner that will blame you, your car, your environment, GM, world hunger, or China before he says his tune."

I left James in favor of Term and couldn't have been happier. Car felt right from the end user perspective. And like I said, I don't care what you, you, or you do to your car. For me, it wasn't James and I am happy with that. I mean it matters even less now, I don't even own a Cobalt.

 

i cant believe i just red this whole thread...

 

They let almost anyone join, but they will in fact remove you if you say "they are worse than high school girls on their periods"

 

lmao

 

I remember it all, and I'm not taking it in any wrong way. I had lots of issues at first and it all got fixed. I just don't get what's wrong with all this WGDC and RPM you guys are hung over. My was performing great in canyons and straight lines. I never had issues or hiccups. Idk, either I was lucky or James actually cared to tune me right. Anything I needed he did it for me in the way I wanted it to but in a safe manner. Still though, to this day the only 2 tuners I'd let tune my car are still James and Term.

 

What happened to that particular setup? I kind of remember you have having problems with slow spool on your zfr. Then it took a **** on you. But you don't get what's wrong with that file?

 

My turbo blew out due to it being a first production EFR and a rebuilt prototype kit. I'm sure if it was tuning, my engine would blow before the turbo. I never had slow spool on the ZFR, I just had a mild boost spike and that was it. I would hit 26 psi then hold 24.

 

My mistake on the spool thing then. Thought I remembered that. I've followed your build threads and know you've had some bad luck. I hope it goes smoother with your new setup. Btw I wasn't saying your tune blew your turbo, I'm saying if those screen shots term posted of disabled dtc's were from your file, I hope you knew they were disabled. I didn't know on my tune.

 

I just asked james why 11 codes where turned off on my friends tune. Customer was not aware either. THis does not include the 4KR i see in the log or the other things people saw.

 

Yeah those should not be turned off.

 

Can't wait to see what the response is...

 

I got this:

Po106 . Disabled because if that code does pop up the car goes into limp. You will know when the map sensor fails because "no boost". And waste gate sensor? I've only done mine because I don't use it. Or didn't lol.. So if I used my file which then that is why. Cuz I have many disabled for the point of me not using most electrical ****

And this:

That's like saying why is the toilet red when it should be white! Someone pays for a "tune" many codes must be disabled if they have things like "not cat" " no o2" stock maps when they want 25lbs because car is undrivable when a map pops. And also, here is something else, I've never disabled a few of those compare the correct Os year and etc... Because a few are diff

 

He disabled P0108 MAP sensor high voltage and a mess of other codes as well including P0236 boost sensor (lower T-MAP)

 

Term use BYT?! better switch to Trifecta

 

Did you also ask him why he raised your buddies injector constant to 0.03738542 for an e47 tune? Or why he skewed the maf 22-33% to compensate for the **** ton of extra fuel he's offset the maf scaling with? Or why the injector dc is 39% from 6k up? Or why there's 20* of timing at 3,000 rpms? Just a couple of things you could bring up from what I saw in that tune.

 

You two are not the only two who have looked at the tune. Its been about 5 different people now and they all came up with roughly the same thing.

But according to him you are all wrong and have no clue what you are doing and just have a personal vendetta against him even though i tried to explain there are others who said the same.

And then the post he is all over was not deleted by him but his mods.

It is what it is though.

 

Yep e-47 has 13% greater fuel mass than gasoline not 30% greater fuel mass. That is slightly greater than the e-85 constant I use. Further proof he has no clue what he is doing.

 

I'm reading a book about learning to tune (finding out if want to bother with it, books are cheaper than hptuners or an engine ) it sounds like he is skipping the entire part of proper tuning at less than 80% throttle first, then WOT, granted if you already have a baseline tune for less than 80% throttle it should take a lot of adjustments to dial it in, then WOT tune from that

 

No worries man, I understand. Only person that has one of my files are 09cobaltss1 and Wert842. I'm not sure what is disabled or not etc.

 

Careful everyone, GMtech is lurking forums again..........beware lol

 

lol cant wait for that considering rakes use to rob his tune files and make an attempt to modify them

 

Lol.. exactly why he compensated 22-33% in his maf scaling instead of just setting the correct constant.

 

I've been lurking and reading this because I have been going back and forth whether or not I want to get tuned and at one point I WAS considering ccss3. I don't know the first thing about tuning and will never claim to but I guess if it is a route I want to take I would probably consider Term.

My question though is, couldn't James be liable for damages to these blown engines for his clear negligence? Its like a business that messed something up and pay for whatever they broke. Maybe I'm wrong though.

 

After seeing all this ive lost all respect for james. I wouldnt let him get close to my car.

 

costs money to sue; trust me I know. Took a lot of money for us to sue OTT to get paid for a bill he owed.
The problem with this guy, is a clear paper trail is not always there.And it becomes a "he said/she said" deal.

Even if you successfully did get a court judgement against him , you would possibly be unable to crystallize on the judgement, as there is nothing there to grab. No money.

What seriously sucks is that the folks who have blown motors in this case, are in for at least a 2000 dollar bill, at minimum, probably a whole lot more. Who has the dough to pay that much?

And if you get convinced, when your motor is blown, because you want to be reassured , then the same guy who created the disaster, assures you that it was not his fault ( it was your fault/bad gas/bad sensors/edgy tune you asked for/GM build crummy motors/you beat on it when i told you not to) then offers to help your fix it for very little/ well you can see the circle jerk staring all over again. And why would you speak ill of the guy, he is offering to help you fix your motor, which clearly went boom because its all your fault.

What a sad tale of deception and destruction. Thanks to the good folks here who explained step by step what is really wrong here, the mods for being straight up, and to the OP for speaking up and shining the bright light.