Hey man, sent you a PM a few weeks ago but don't know if you got it or not. I was given your name by a few people as a great tuner, and was told you could hook me up with a sweet tune for my GTO. Send me a PM man!

Thanks,
Brian Lewis

 

Heh, really don't check PMs on this site (I get some really goofy ones more than daily). I put a couple LS2 tunes on both manuals and autos but one GTO owner said he was able to refine it even further while on the track (mainly auto tranny stuff iirc). Post your email and I'll send you what I put on his car (A4 or M6 version) and I'll see if I can get him to post his most recent tune if he's willing.

 

Al, thanks for the reply. My email is brlewis81@hotmail.com George (GTP540) on the bimmer site has reccomended you a few times. Shoot me an email and let's set something up!

-Brian

 

hey now!




lol

 

LOL, I've replied to your PMs you bum!

BTW, I have an updated tune for 272 cammed cobalt people, I sent you and dan a list of changes I made.

speedfreak81 - I'm lifting the tune from a friend of mine as we speak. He revised the stock tune past what I did with great results. It is an auto tune, I'll see if I can apply the changes to an M6 and shoot it to ya ASAP.

 

heheheh. i know, i just like givin ya ****

 

Ok sounds good, but I don't have HP Tuners. George said you might be willing to actually tune my car if I came up to Pittsburg....something you might be interested in doing?

 

I actually sent you a PM about your cam set up.....not sure if you saw it or not

 

If everyone is going to pick Witt's brain, I might as well too.

Quick question for ya since I know you've had your valvetrain in pieces a few times over the last year. Are you aware how many times GM has redesigned the tensioner? Reason being, when my engine was reassembled, we used the updated tensioner (I believe the wider one w/o the o-ring), but I'm around 90% certain that it's going on me again. Rattle at idle and tip-in throttle, but you can't hear it while cruising. I took the valve cover off and there was enough slack in the timing chain to tap it on the bottom of the upper guide. To me, that's gotta be the tensioner. I'm thinking about trying to bring it in to get that replaced under warranty, given it seems to be a GM design flaw, not my actual modifications. Any thoughts?

Sorry to thread jack...

I'd entertain any of your thoughts also.

 

whats sad is. i took my car in for this problem. the techs said they couldn't find the problem. my car is right at 30k miles. i bought it 4500 on it. it has done this since day one when i picked it up.


this is added to the list of stuff that gm is going to fix on mine. if you let the car warm up for a while it does not do it. it's only when you start driving it when it hasn't had time to warm up past 140 that it does it.

whats sad is, i know how to reproduce it everytime now.

 

Me?

 

No problem, I'd be glad to help any friend of George's. I really don't have a work schedule though, I work on call for a railroad 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
I tend to ignore PMs for the most part, I used to get a lot of goofy ones from people lurking the site more than daily. Just post here or create a thread. I'm sure me or anyone else who's experienced can answer your questions.
I actually wasn't aware they had different versions of the tensioner produced. I have seen djt81185's tensioner fail. It threw a cam-crank correlation DTC. When we pulled the cam cover off there was slack in the chain on the exhaust side. If the tensioner is ok, there shouldn't be slack anywhere in that chain. I think Dan's was random though, it would actually get hung up on itself while compressed and stick in the completely compressed position. Sometimes it would "spring back" against the chain guide and sometimes it wouldn't.

 

Thanks Al! Well, I'm game whenever so just let me know a possible time or date and I'll drive up. You heard about George's daughter right? So sad, I actually need to send him an email and see how it's going.

Shoot me an email and we can work out a time/date. brlewis81@hotmail.com

-Brian

 

TTT, any news Al?