08-21-2013, 08:14 PM | #14211 | |
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I also have a question for you guys...I have a lot of respect for your shop and haven't heard anything but good things...but whats gonna stop all the heat in the engine bay from melting and frying the new stuff? Did you guys relocate it all? Not bashing just curious.
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08-21-2013, 08:23 PM | #14212 |
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Ken I'm just about ready to get mine back from vengeance. I hope they did do some things to help you with heat as that is really one of the main issues with forward facing headers. I've upgraded my radiator and went with a lower thermostat. I went away from the shiny ceramic coated headers to wrap that helps with heat. My saga seems to never end. I just new tune awakens this beast to what I was expecting. If not someone will get a car real cheap and I'll be riding in a stingray..
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08-21-2013, 08:25 PM | #14213 | |
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Headers are coated too! Chrome heat shield
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08-21-2013, 09:28 PM | #14214 | |
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So if you tune a blown car, or a h/c car with a converter you would expect your past client, say if they move, to drive to a shop on a stock tune? And contrary to what you say I've had tunes by 3 shops in ATL on past cars and none of them were password protected.
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08-21-2013, 09:44 PM | #14215 | ||||
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Johnny,
With all due respect, I'm going to have to clear up some of the smoke & mirrors in your post. Quote:
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Locking your customers PCM's & making them proprietary to MTI's tuning cables only is something you guys should definitely communicate more so to your customers. Quote:
Locking peoples' computers wouldn't be as much of an issue if its communicated to the customer before hand. Problem is, I bet almost every MTI customer reading this post right now had absolutely no idea their PCM was tuner locked. Cheers. Last edited by Josh @ Spartan LSX; 08-21-2013 at 10:25 PM. |
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08-21-2013, 10:39 PM | #14216 |
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Damn... Josh hits the boards and starts shaking the tree doesn't he?
I can say with 100% certainty that MTI was on my list of shops to look at when doing my upgrades on the ZL1, but if they are going to lock the tune, then that is a deal breaker for me. I am moving to Fort Worth in January, and I will not have a way to take it back to them for anything and I am certainly not going to use any of the other available options listed. I guess this means they are not on my very short list anymore.
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08-21-2013, 10:54 PM | #14217 |
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Not trying to shake any tree's Tony. Just keeping things honest, as it should be.
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08-21-2013, 11:11 PM | #14218 | |
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As for the move, yeah. I took a new job with a huge financial firm. They are letting me work remotely from here until my lease is up. I am moving at the end of January. That is one of the main reasons I have been holding off on the ZL1 upgrades. I want to be able to get the tune and everything checked after it is done, especially if I do additional work to the car. Most places will update your tune if they do all the work as you keep adding goodies. I also have to dig into what the laws are in Texas for emissions and stuff so I make sure I do not do anything to my car that would make it fail any sort of tests. I am still working on that, and hope to do at least some stuff to it before I move.
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08-22-2013, 01:34 AM | #14219 |
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Wow. Just when I thought this place was dead... LOL I may have to come back more often.
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08-22-2013, 05:33 AM | #14220 |
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Hell you started it.
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08-22-2013, 06:03 AM | #14221 |
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I understand locking "the tune" so that people can't mess with something and in the process hurting the engine, they change the settings back, and take it back to MTI telling them that their tune hurt their car. This I understand.
However, if you pay for a tune, and it is "not yours", then I can really only see two reasons for this: 1-The shop doesn't want other shops to be able to copy what they changed. 2-The shop doesn't want anyone to know what they changed. Maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture, but if I paid for a tune and all I got back after asking for it to be unlocked (in person or remote) was the original tune, I would also be upset. Maybe you just need to make a little tweak to something because of something you added or removed (cats for example). I would expect MTI to say that they are no longer responsible for your tune. That would be fine. Johnny, if you could explain the thought process behind locking it and not unlocking it without going back to stock, then that may help. The only reason that I heard from you was "Every shop that tunes will lock the tune with a password, we are no different." That doesn't explain the reason. And Tony, yes you do get what you pay for. Maybe other shops could have gotten Ken's ride running right, but he paid MTI, and MTI did a fine job. The car operates good now. The car had not been able to start on the first try since it left HPS. It had gone back there, and they couldn't figure it out. Sure, the locking thing needs to be addressed, and in the end may end up hurting their sales. But as far as tuning itself, Reese has proven himself. Sure, there may be other people on this thread or in town that can do well too without locking it, but as far as the work was concerned, it was done well.
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and, Where are all the <other Marietta shop since closed> haters?? A lot of those people put deposits down bigger than the sticker price of your cars, and never even received a car!! Oh right, that's different.... :/ end rant.
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08-22-2013, 07:46 AM | #14224 | |
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