Best of the bad ideas?!
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Best of the bad ideas?!
So, I have to get my car 17 hours to a haltech platinum installation and tune.... I currently am running on a utec, and it just recently has my numbers running a little lean even on highway.. up to mid 15's........ I don't have the original tune so I can't re-flash it.
Should I install the haltech and drive the distance on a base map from Hal and just stay out of boost... or drive on the utec?
Should I install the haltech and drive the distance on a base map from Hal and just stay out of boost... or drive on the utec?
Do you mean you have to drive your car 17-hours worth of driving to get it to the shop to do the tune?
My coworker drove about 3 1/2 hours with his freshly supercharged G and a generic U-Tec tune on the way to the shop to get it tuned for the first time, but he just babied it the whole way.
I don't know why he didn't just disconnect his supercharger belt and drive it up on the stock tune, but he left it hooked up for the drive instead. I personally would not have risked that after having just dumped so much money into the car and risking grenading the motor.
Since you have a turbo, you could probably just keep the RPMs low and keep it out of boost, but that might be harder to do than you think, especially on the highway...which I'm assuming you would be doing mostly highway driving for such a long drive. Depending on your turbo setup, I'd assume that anything over 60 MPH would start to get you some boost. I guess it really depends on how good those Utec generic tunes are... and I can't give you any info on that.
My coworker drove about 3 1/2 hours with his freshly supercharged G and a generic U-Tec tune on the way to the shop to get it tuned for the first time, but he just babied it the whole way.
I don't know why he didn't just disconnect his supercharger belt and drive it up on the stock tune, but he left it hooked up for the drive instead. I personally would not have risked that after having just dumped so much money into the car and risking grenading the motor.
Since you have a turbo, you could probably just keep the RPMs low and keep it out of boost, but that might be harder to do than you think, especially on the highway...which I'm assuming you would be doing mostly highway driving for such a long drive. Depending on your turbo setup, I'd assume that anything over 60 MPH would start to get you some boost. I guess it really depends on how good those Utec generic tunes are... and I can't give you any info on that.
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From: North Central
Do you mean you have to drive your car 17-hours worth of driving to get it to the shop to do the tune?
My coworker drove about 3 1/2 hours with his freshly supercharged G and a generic U-Tec tune on the way to the shop to get it tuned for the first time, but he just babied it the whole way.
I don't know why he didn't just disconnect his supercharger belt and drive it up on the stock tune, but he left it hooked up for the drive instead. I personally would not have risked that after having just dumped so much money into the car and risking grenading the motor.
Since you have a turbo, you could probably just keep the RPMs low and keep it out of boost, but that might be harder to do than you think, especially on the highway...which I'm assuming you would be doing mostly highway driving for such a long drive. Depending on your turbo setup, I'd assume that anything over 60 MPH would start to get you some boost. I guess it really depends on how good those Utec generic tunes are... and I can't give you any info on that.
My coworker drove about 3 1/2 hours with his freshly supercharged G and a generic U-Tec tune on the way to the shop to get it tuned for the first time, but he just babied it the whole way.
I don't know why he didn't just disconnect his supercharger belt and drive it up on the stock tune, but he left it hooked up for the drive instead. I personally would not have risked that after having just dumped so much money into the car and risking grenading the motor.
Since you have a turbo, you could probably just keep the RPMs low and keep it out of boost, but that might be harder to do than you think, especially on the highway...which I'm assuming you would be doing mostly highway driving for such a long drive. Depending on your turbo setup, I'd assume that anything over 60 MPH would start to get you some boost. I guess it really depends on how good those Utec generic tunes are... and I can't give you any info on that.
Its just a bit odd that I'm leaned out when I seem to cruise on the highway... I could always re-install the UTEC basemap that was for my kit.....?
True, but that wasn't one of the scenarios.... Thanks tho.
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