Depends on who you are. Had I used a dyno with all the games played by the first incompetent scammer dickhead jerkoff "tuner", I'd have spent at minimum 5 times the value of the car on dyno time and probably triple that on tuning since he quickly tried to scam to hourly for his incompetence.
Some guys with the same exact problem I finally found spent so much money on dyno time and failed to fix the problem that they ended up selling the car. They were flat broke. Tuners who quickly move to scam hourly are looking to do just this; charge you 'til you're broke and have to sell the car to pay the princely hourly tuning bill - for a tune that is still totally fucked up and totally unfinished; probably even dangerous.
One guy on that path pm'd me the impossibly simple solution thank gawd. The joke kid tuner sure didn't have a clue; or he wasn't talking because "hourly" looks so very attractive..
In short, I did 3rd gear data logs on the highway. Took measures to make sure I didn't end up in jail like using a radar detector to drive/sweep the highway I was going to use before each run.
Still, with the games played by first tuner and all the lost time and lost data logging runs and abuse on the car, I had an extra totally unnecessary and completely useless 50 runs in due to his incompetence or greed or fraud - OR ALL OF THE ABOVE. One of those runs almost got me busted but good. But I dodged the bullet - just barely. Of course, the game playing fraud tuner doesn't give a flying fuck if you get jailed or not; NOT his problem.
I dreaded that high risk driving, but it had to be done. Dyno time for nearly 100 pulls spanning 6 months would have cost a bloody fortune.
Opinions will vary.
3rd gear data log run went from 15 to 99 mph with my previous gears.. not something I relished doing on the highway. In fact, in case any fascists are cruising this forum looking for an easy kill, the above is ALL 100 percent fiction. It never happened. I would never speed at all, of course. Not even by 1 mph.
Back to ?reality?: For the record, I don't recommend highway data logging. One guy I know in our little burg got busted bigtime for a data logging run. And when (not if) they impounded his car, they went after EVERYTHING. $10,000 fine for each missing cat; huge fine for "illegal" tune, etc etc. There was no end to it; they were out to crucify him like he was a terrorist or something. I'm surprised they didn't ship him off to Cuba.. then again, they might have. Haven't seen him in awhile. ;-)
Appears he'll be paying the tab for the rest of his life.
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