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draper · 11-29-2010, 09:39 PM

Hey Sasha
Suprised to see you chime in, I should've brought your name out earlier but didn't want to and wanted to share my experiences with the community, though I might not be the first guy who have had mixed reactions with your tuning.
I do have respect and utmost that is for your knowledge and experience with the 3.5VQ and as I mentioned not sure about the 3.7 VQ, you've mentioned that you had tuned about 5 including mine and Brian had tuned more than 30 and what I'm gathering is that experience does count in tuning. And on top of that I've showed up at your doorstep without asking much at least with your experience with Cobb. And it was not till I got back home and spoke to few ppl that I realized the tune numbers could've been better but I was a fool not ask why it wasn't like 10 -15 hp as you mentioned. Why would I make a 4 hour trip for a mere 5hp gain, as someone said I could possibly get that by making ahole in the exhaust

Regardless, dyno's are different and the numbers I see on yours might not be same on APH's but I was comparing the differences both the tunes have made from base run and you could clearly see how different it is they both are. Brian's clearly shows close to 10 whp and I cannot see more than 5 in yours, i.e. not even at peak or anywhere low to mid. Torque numbers are great in Brian's and they're minor in yours. And again, this is not a post to bash you or damage your reputation, you might have the experience but it seems to be limited to the previous engine. And I'm not making up any numbers, the dyno's though different speak for themselves. My butt dyno also felt different, the car definitely pulled harder and stronger on 401 on the way back home with APH tune especially throughout the mid range and knock on the wood no CEL/SES light. After getting tuned from you, I noticed car was bit slower in the lower-mid range, it did pull above 6000 rpm and the CEL/SES light was on two hours after the tune.

I still have your map and I can do a dyno run to compare the gains on both the maps, of course someone has to volunteer their dyno for this.

As I mentioned Sasha, I came to you even though I knew about APH and others just because of word of mouth, ppl talk on forums, etc and I'm only sharing what I've experienced as others can do much more homework than me or make better choices in getting more power from their car as this is the whole game. I'm sure your next tune and even if you were to tune mine, it would be better and different but to convince you on that would be something.
I hope you can be upfront about your numbers or tuning experience on any particular car because they're all different, 370z is different from g37 because one's a 7 speed automatic and the other is 5 speed. Other tuners have gained good gains on Cobb, so they must be doing something different.
Though you had to pay for your dyno rentals, I paid to get some good results and not what came through your tuning.

hopefully no hard feelings.

11-29-2010, 09:39 PM	#23 (permalink)
draper Base Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: ontario, canada Posts: 32 Drives: g37 Rep Power: 15	Hey Sasha Suprised to see you chime in, I should've brought your name out earlier but didn't want to and wanted to share my experiences with the community, though I might not be the first guy who have had mixed reactions with your tuning. I do have respect and utmost that is for your knowledge and experience with the 3.5VQ and as I mentioned not sure about the 3.7 VQ, you've mentioned that you had tuned about 5 including mine and Brian had tuned more than 30 and what I'm gathering is that experience does count in tuning. And on top of that I've showed up at your doorstep without asking much at least with your experience with Cobb. And it was not till I got back home and spoke to few ppl that I realized the tune numbers could've been better but I was a fool not ask why it wasn't like 10 -15 hp as you mentioned. Why would I make a 4 hour trip for a mere 5hp gain, as someone said I could possibly get that by making ahole in the exhaust Regardless, dyno's are different and the numbers I see on yours might not be same on APH's but I was comparing the differences both the tunes have made from base run and you could clearly see how different it is they both are. Brian's clearly shows close to 10 whp and I cannot see more than 5 in yours, i.e. not even at peak or anywhere low to mid. Torque numbers are great in Brian's and they're minor in yours. And again, this is not a post to bash you or damage your reputation, you might have the experience but it seems to be limited to the previous engine. And I'm not making up any numbers, the dyno's though different speak for themselves. My butt dyno also felt different, the car definitely pulled harder and stronger on 401 on the way back home with APH tune especially throughout the mid range and knock on the wood no CEL/SES light. After getting tuned from you, I noticed car was bit slower in the lower-mid range, it did pull above 6000 rpm and the CEL/SES light was on two hours after the tune. I still have your map and I can do a dyno run to compare the gains on both the maps, of course someone has to volunteer their dyno for this. As I mentioned Sasha, I came to you even though I knew about APH and others just because of word of mouth, ppl talk on forums, etc and I'm only sharing what I've experienced as others can do much more homework than me or make better choices in getting more power from their car as this is the whole game. I'm sure your next tune and even if you were to tune mine, it would be better and different but to convince you on that would be something. I hope you can be upfront about your numbers or tuning experience on any particular car because they're all different, 370z is different from g37 because one's a 7 speed automatic and the other is 5 speed. Other tuners have gained good gains on Cobb, so they must be doing something different. Though you had to pay for your dyno rentals, I paid to get some good results and not what came through your tuning. hopefully no hard feelings.