HELP ME UNDERSTAND EFI LIVE VS SCT TUNE?

[sixty4]

How is each done and whats the difference? Is one a better tune than the other? Thanks!

[JANNETTYRACING]

Originally Posted by sixty4

How is each done and whats the difference? Is one a better tune than the other? Thanks!

With EFI Live you must learn all the details of tuning your car yourself, a Daunting task that can take years to master.

With SCT I do all the Work for you, so you can go out and Play and enjoy your new found Power.

Ted.

[Sales@CoW]

Originally Posted by sixty4

How is each done and whats the difference? Is one a better tune than the other? Thanks!

Depends on what you are looking for. The EFI Live AutoCal is a remote tuning tool, which basically means we do all the work for ya, and you just plug it in and go!

Feel free to give me a call anytime!
(914)332-0049

Brandon

[Patrick G]

EFI Live is like tuning for nerds. If you love being able to tinker with everything, EFI Live is a very powerful tool. With the advent of Autocal, you can now get the custom tuning power from expert tuners without the steep learning curve of doing it yourself.

[Chuck CoW]

Originally Posted by Patrick G

EFI Live is like tuning for nerds. If you love being able to tinker with everything, EFI Live is a very powerful tool. With the advent of Autocal, you can now get the custom tuning power from expert tuners without the steep learning curve of doing it yourself.

You're on the right track....

EFI LIVE is recognized as the most powerful and flexible GM Tuning Solution on the market.

A quick look at our industry will show you that all of the Top Shops are using EFI LIVE for tuning.

Efi Live can be as simple as you need it to be...ie(reading/flashing/scanning of mail order tunes)

or it can be a TOTAL SOLUTION for the most prominent LSx Tuning shop.

Yes, EFI LIVE COMMERCIAL SCAN AND TUNE is/can be complicated for the end user

because it IS the most powerful/flexible tuning tool available, but for those just wanting

their favorite tuners tunes via mail order....

The Efi Live AUTOCAL is your best bet.

More power, more tables, more custom software, more flexibility....and most often

less expensive than just about any comparable tool available today.

EFI LIVE will NOT smoke your pcm or damage your vehicle in any way.

It's one of the oldest solutions available with updates every few days.

Tuning LSx vehicles can be a very rewarding experience....done properly.

TUNERS--- Choose your WEAPONS!
EFI LIVE for me!
Chuck CoW

[CC Performance]

Suites like EFIlive and HPTuners allow the ability to tune just about every parameter on the car... handhelds are very limited in what they can do.

If you want something to read codes and make minor changes you get a handheld. If you actually want the ability to really tune the car you go with a software suite. The handhelds are a lot cheaper.. by far than the suites are....

EFI and HP have their owns boards ( forums) with plenty of help in there from real tuners ..
SO really it all comes down to how involved you want to be in tuning your car.

[Chuck CoW]

Originally Posted by CC Performance

Suites like EFIlive and HPTuners allow the ability to tune just about every parameter on the car... handhelds are very limited in what they can do.

If you want something to read codes and make minor changes you get a handheld. If you actually want the ability to really tune the car you go with a software suite. The handhelds are a lot cheaper.. by far than the suites are....

EFI and HP have their owns boards ( forums) with plenty of help in there from real tuners ..
SO really it all comes down to how involved you want to be in tuning your car.

One point to make clear.... There are handhelds...and there there is AutoCal.

While AutoCal is considered a handheld, it is internally (virtually) identical to the much more expensive

Master Tuner V2 Commercial Scan and Tune cable most of us use.

handhelds are very limited in what they can do.

This is NOT true for AutoCal. AutoCal is is hardly limited. It has the ability to deploy (flash) or read ABSOLUTELY ANY EFI LIVE (and some others)

custom tune or operating system and/or custom parameters.

Other brand "handhelds" are only capable of flashing a finite list of calibrations, usually NO CUSTOM OS/CAL

files, and it's never easy to get custom parameters added to it's feature list.

Additionally, nearly 50% of the GM VEHICLES out there leave the factory with

what we call "EARLY" operating systems or "first gen" versions of the cars data and operating code.

As time goes on, GM issues updates for the software in your vehicle which are critical to proper performance and

not different than Microsoft Windows, software updates are MANDATORY and times change...

"OTHER" handhelds are not capable of flashing updated operating systems into engine and transmission controllers.

AutoCal does this with ease.

In other words, if your early version/first year camaro had a bug in the software (bad fuel level sensor calibration for instance....)

and your tuner tunes the car with his handheld....

Guess what....????

You vehicle is STUCK WITH THAT DEFECT FOR EVER AND EVER...

Or until someone with an AutoCal comes along and can read the old OS and migrates your old tune

to the new OS along with some updates.

While there are many reasons to use AutoCal, this is just one MAJOR ONE to consider.

Stay TUNED!
Chuck CoW

[ss/rs-matt]

So any updates on this? Has anyone used the autocal yet? I'd kinda like to start doing my own tuning.

[Whipped416]

i have a auto cal ..

[Whipped416]

just got it saturday and havent played with it much .. Patrick G tuned my car then hooked me up with one for other tunes we will put on the car in the future.