Hello all fellows,
At first let me make you aware I am french but I live here in Alabama, so don’t pay attention to my mistakes….
3 years ago I bought a GT 2010 with 68k miles and directly installed on it Flowmaters’ outlaws and the CAI from K&N (Typhoon box for 2010 only).
Since a year or so I am thinking about selling it or not and go to a 2015 model.
Seeing the current price and the ‘’no-way I will pay this much for a stock car like a basic GT’’, we decided to keep and customize it until there is no other thing to add but a S/C, which could happen hopefully at the very end.
Before going into the story below let me tell you my engine was idling perfectly at 750 like a clockwork, and smooth as butter while reving or decelerating !
3 weeks ago, I bought a SCT x4 tuner from AM having in mind to buy the hot rod cams the week or so after..
After a couple of days, I was provided with 2 basic tunes mentioning to them I had just the CAI k&n typhoon. Just uploading their tune resulted in an unstable idle above 850, and honestly did’t feel any improvement at all, which I didnlt expect but I wanted everything to be perfectly matched with my CAI…. Well, shouldn’t have asked anything as just for the CAI which was running perfectly, now it doesn’t anymore with the tune.
So We left it like this as I was really willing to install my hot rod cams last Saturday. After installing, we loaded another new tune they sent me in between for the cams, and I thought that it would be better…
Engine’s start was easy, but even hot, it was shightly oscillating between 800 and 900 and one passionate person could tell there was something wrong ( not speaking about the lopey behaviour but more like unstability or irregularity in the cycles). Though it didn’t stall or bounce above 1000rpm.
While driving, it is bucking a lot between 1000 and 2500, even worse when cold. The driveability is not there at all. The gain in torque or hp is not evident neither, it feels even less…
The following day, I did try to put the computer back to stock. Surprinsingly I got my 750 idle back , the loopey sound, no bucking at all, and driveability was back to normal! (Noise was less powerful though) You could feel there was something to be adjusted but it was definitely better than the tune provided and optimized for these cams by Bama. The only thing that was not good was the idle dropping to 500 when coming to a stop but no stalling at all. I guess the tech probably used the 1st tune I received 2 weeks ago for my CAI and customized it to add the cams, but as mentioned above this 1st tune for the CAI was not working well.
I contacted them and they did ask me to datalog. I did it 4 days ago. I got a new tune, slightly better but same issues. I did ask them what they have changed and what they have seen that was not properly working in the datalogs…. The guy doesn’t andwer so I did another set of datalogs yesterday. Still no answer. I phoned them and they say I have to wait till next mid-week……I am on vacation and was willing to take this time to enjoy the car, work on it and put my Pypes LT headers with the high flaw cats + h-pipr. i am stuck now.
I think they should start from scratch, datalogging using my stock tune and not datalogging using their crappy tune that sure seems not to work. Basically we generated more issues with their tune and now we try to correct….
I contacted Lito yesterday and no answer.
I unfortunately spent money, surely start to regret all of this and think I should have just sold it. I love it so much , it is my first muscle car.
I am so disappointed to see you can buy parts but nobody is either serious, or professional or knowledgeable to tune them correctly. And I am not the guy satisfied if it is not like it is supposed to be…
What do you think my friends ?
Thank you
At first let me make you aware I am french but I live here in Alabama, so don’t pay attention to my mistakes….
3 years ago I bought a GT 2010 with 68k miles and directly installed on it Flowmaters’ outlaws and the CAI from K&N (Typhoon box for 2010 only).
Since a year or so I am thinking about selling it or not and go to a 2015 model.
Seeing the current price and the ‘’no-way I will pay this much for a stock car like a basic GT’’, we decided to keep and customize it until there is no other thing to add but a S/C, which could happen hopefully at the very end.
Before going into the story below let me tell you my engine was idling perfectly at 750 like a clockwork, and smooth as butter while reving or decelerating !
3 weeks ago, I bought a SCT x4 tuner from AM having in mind to buy the hot rod cams the week or so after..
After a couple of days, I was provided with 2 basic tunes mentioning to them I had just the CAI k&n typhoon. Just uploading their tune resulted in an unstable idle above 850, and honestly did’t feel any improvement at all, which I didnlt expect but I wanted everything to be perfectly matched with my CAI…. Well, shouldn’t have asked anything as just for the CAI which was running perfectly, now it doesn’t anymore with the tune.
So We left it like this as I was really willing to install my hot rod cams last Saturday. After installing, we loaded another new tune they sent me in between for the cams, and I thought that it would be better…
Engine’s start was easy, but even hot, it was shightly oscillating between 800 and 900 and one passionate person could tell there was something wrong ( not speaking about the lopey behaviour but more like unstability or irregularity in the cycles). Though it didn’t stall or bounce above 1000rpm.
While driving, it is bucking a lot between 1000 and 2500, even worse when cold. The driveability is not there at all. The gain in torque or hp is not evident neither, it feels even less…
The following day, I did try to put the computer back to stock. Surprinsingly I got my 750 idle back , the loopey sound, no bucking at all, and driveability was back to normal! (Noise was less powerful though) You could feel there was something to be adjusted but it was definitely better than the tune provided and optimized for these cams by Bama. The only thing that was not good was the idle dropping to 500 when coming to a stop but no stalling at all. I guess the tech probably used the 1st tune I received 2 weeks ago for my CAI and customized it to add the cams, but as mentioned above this 1st tune for the CAI was not working well.
I contacted them and they did ask me to datalog. I did it 4 days ago. I got a new tune, slightly better but same issues. I did ask them what they have changed and what they have seen that was not properly working in the datalogs…. The guy doesn’t andwer so I did another set of datalogs yesterday. Still no answer. I phoned them and they say I have to wait till next mid-week……I am on vacation and was willing to take this time to enjoy the car, work on it and put my Pypes LT headers with the high flaw cats + h-pipr. i am stuck now.
I think they should start from scratch, datalogging using my stock tune and not datalogging using their crappy tune that sure seems not to work. Basically we generated more issues with their tune and now we try to correct….
I contacted Lito yesterday and no answer.
I unfortunately spent money, surely start to regret all of this and think I should have just sold it. I love it so much , it is my first muscle car.
I am so disappointed to see you can buy parts but nobody is either serious, or professional or knowledgeable to tune them correctly. And I am not the guy satisfied if it is not like it is supposed to be…
What do you think my friends ?
Thank you
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