I'm always down to turn wrenches

If Houston there are plenty of us, post up details on when you will be here and building.
Many hands to help or just sit & talk cars.

Awesome. I should be arriving on the evening of 12/18.. tear down should start that night! My brother in law and I plan to put in 10-14 hours each subsequent day until finished. I am hoping to be boosted and on my way out of town by 12/29 at the latest.

Keep your fingers crossed for me to have a smoooooooooth install.
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That should be plenty of time. Mine, although a different kit, only took four days.

Dropping the motor?
Also, my only concern is the tune, while GTM/Gamma out of the box tunes can get you around you will really want a full custom tune. I am not sure with the holidays and such a tight schedule but you may want to try to get a slot in at Jtran or Kozmic for a full custom tune when the kit is done.

Motor is staying in... The kit instructions are written for leaving the motor in. If I finish up early enough I likely will try to get in at Jtran to get the tune checked out / touched up but as you said, the holidays are right int he way.

In the event I am not able to get a custom tune done - I should at least be able to tell from the datalogs that I am not way off, right? Also the datalogs get sent off to gamma to be checked as well.

Yes, the data logs and back & forth will help dial it in, also the tune they send will most likely be locked and not editable by a shop. Even if it is not typically they will start from a base tune they have instead of working backwards on someone else tune.

My kit has arrived! WOOOOOP!
 

I recommend taking it to JTran. Nothing against Kozmic, he definitely knows his ****, but he doesn't tune Ecutek. Ecutek is the way to go.

Yeah I need to talk to him here soon about that.
Since I want to go e85 and upgrading a few items when the SC comes back I would like to migrate over to Ecutek but he is strictly Uprev still.

I'm making the E85 jump too just not sure when. I guess when I feel comfortable dropping another $1800-2000 on the car.

Agreed, and I ultimately want Ecutek. If the Uprev tune is OK - I may just wait. I had originally ordered the Ecutek version of the kit, but Gamma doesn't have it ready yet... I am hoping they will help me out with a switch like they offered to GrooveStyle. When I spoke to Amin about it I just remember him saying "We can talk about it when we have the Ecutek solution" or something like that. So far he has been great to work with, so I am not terribly worried.

One thing... now that Sam is out of the picture at Gamma I am not sure who would be doing the tune and what their track record is - so that is a question mark.

In what neighborhood is the price tag for Ecutek + custom tune?

I'm going to guess between $600-800.

Is that an educated guess? Or an arbitrary one? That seems very reasonable to me...

Somewhat educated. I know what their Uprev tunes cost as I have one and I added a little pad because from my research Ecutek is slight higher.

The canned tune for my kit was a hot mess. They were basically unresponsive to fixing it. Just plan to get it tuned before you leave town, even if it's just an uprev tune. You'll be much happier.