Disapointing Mods or setups

I think in terms of mods the biggest disappointment for me was trying to find someone to dyno tune my car only to find out no one does it and having to get a mail order. Not really a big deal but disappointing. I also bought LT headers that were really poor fitment not sure if the issue was with the headers or my car to be honest.

Overall though not really a mod issue but the one thing that irks me more then any thing is how other people i know are able to push there stock applications much much further than we are. I would love to have added forced induction to my camaro but the total cost of doing it is just insane. so instead i just tinker and shoot for a 12 second car.

Several people do LTX tuning, you just have to do some traveling....

also Strut Tower Brace ... i dont think it did anything but it makes a good hand hold for working under the hood

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Originally Posted by popo8

Several people do LTX tuning, you just have to do some traveling....

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I should have been more specific. I meant to say Locally. I Live in upstate NY and haven't found any one with out driving at least 3 or 4 hours which i wouldn't mind if my set up was as i wanted it but since im still working on piecing it together it would be a huge wast of time and money.
popo who did you use and how was your experience with them.

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Originally Posted by AdamG

I should have been more specific. I meant to say Locally. I Live in upstate NY and haven't found any one with out driving at least 3 or 4 hours which i wouldn't mind if my set up was as i wanted it but since im still working on piecing it together it would be a huge wast of time and money.
popo who did you use and how was your experience with them.

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I can definately agree with that! That was the problem i ran into also with my Formula. Without making a road trip out of it, theres absolutely nobody in upstate NY for tuning LTX stuff. I have a local shop right here in Rochester (new era performance) that does LSX stuff though. That made it a whole lot easier for me. Same thing with the late model Ford stuff here. Im interested in 03/04 cobras, but nobody will touch them around here.

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Originally Posted by AdamG

I should have been more specific. I meant to say Locally. I Live in upstate NY and haven't found any one with out driving at least 3 or 4 hours which i wouldn't mind if my set up was as i wanted it but since im still working on piecing it together it would be a huge wast of time and money.
popo who did you use and how was your experience with them.

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Well Ive been using MOEHorsePower (Moe is a member on here) however my tunes through him have been mail order. i also have two semi local dyno tuners whom I also used, but even though they have LTX tuning stuff, they are more of mustang people.

My intention was to have moe tune as a surrogate on the telephone with one of my locals once we had the car on the rollers.... sooooo when the time was upon us, My car broke...

So once the top end is done, it will be mail ordered again, and gotten close to tune for the specs of my motor...... then once Im sure the car is 100% and just needs fine tuning, Ill work out whatever it takes to fly Moe up and have him tune it hands on.......

Moe does amazing things for sure

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Originally Posted by Camaro_94

I can definately agree with that! That was the problem i ran into also with my Formula. Without making a road trip out of it, theres absolutely nobody in upstate NY for tuning LTX stuff. I have a local shop right here in Rochester (new era performance) that does LSX stuff though. That made it a whole lot easier for me. Same thing with the late model Ford stuff here. Im interested in 03/04 cobras, but nobody will touch them around here.

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My friend Paul does LTx tuning. He's located in Buffalo.

You are not entirely correct about Mike not being able to tune LT1 cars. I'm sure if you purchased tunercat or LT1edit and brought your car to Mike, he would easily be able to tune it. The software is similar to what he works with daily. A lot of the tables will be the same. An engine is an air pump whether it is an LTx os LSx. He doesn't own the correct software so he would need a copy to do the tune.

Buffalo is almost 5 hours from me. I asked another guy if I bought the software if he would do it he said no. I live two minutes from redline performance and asked the if he did lt1 od1 tuning and he told me no he was kinda a dick about it to which i have heard from a lot of people.

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Originally Posted by AdamG

Buffalo is almost 5 hours from me. I asked another guy if I bought the software if he would do it he said no. I live two minutes from redline performance and asked the if he did lt1 od1 tuning and he told me no he was kinda a dick about it to which i have heard from a lot of people.

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Well that just sucks. If I were a tuner I would like to see other tuning software that is available out there to expand my own personal knowledge base. Maybe that guy figured it would be a hassle to try to figure it out.