Tuners?

jcast_0089

Hey guys. Does anybody know of a good tuner on Oahu? Any help would be awesome.

chrischhorn

Only one is Sean at Premier. Formerly Munkey Wurks. It's who 90% of the VQ guys use out here.

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jcast_0089

Thanks I'll look him up

toogood131

Actually, Seth at Sonic's (or whatever the shop is called now) tunes also.

Navyboy916

How well are the tuners in ohau for the vq's?

toogood131

Found a couple links from another forum. So far I haven't seen any complaints about Seth or Sean. From what I understand, Sean is concentrating more on his other job, so he doesn't work too often. Not too sure about Seth, I know his shop gets a lot of business though, not just tuning.

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chrischhorn

Biggest beef with Seth is he is known for Overtuning. Basically pushing your car for max power but right on the edge of catastrophic failure. (I know many people who can vouch for this and has had it happen. Not just on VQ's) Sean is a hard guy to get a hold of and yes his shop went down hill and they sold it a VW shop. He still works out of there and works on everything but they are WAY backed up right now. Hard to schedule any time in with him. Both guys are both good when on their A game but right now both are also hit and miss. A lot of guys prefer Sean only because he under tunes your car to a safety level but just as with any set group of tuners, there's always arguments against both and with both. I honestly went with Sean as I had dyno's done at Seths and it was kinda blah. He wasn't able to get a proper torque reading and he blamed it on my car. Also tried to charge me extra to get a A/F reading since there was no tuning going on, he said it didn't need an A/F reading. I went to Sean and he had zero issues dynoing the car and fast quick hook up, proper readings, gave me the A/F read out with no questions asked and gave proper cooldown between each run. Seth did 3 very fast back to back pulls and shoved me upstairs to pay and by the time I came downstairs, my car was pulled out and parked in the street. Understandably it's a business and time is money but knowing that I had future plans to get a tune done made no difference. Seth also has an in-ground dyno which is kind of old and ratty. Sean has a Dynapack which is very nice to tune on as he can tune different RPMS at full throttle since the dynapack has a feature to lock it at certain RPMs and also it connects to the rear hubs instead of the tire/wheel spinning so there is absolutely no chance for slip. I hear Seth's tunes tend to have issues with normal driving as he only tunes for WOT pulls. With Sean, he's kinda hard to get a hold of. After I went back for multiple retunes as I changed my headers, then my intake manifold, then my exhaust, and did some re-adjustments, Sean did become harder and harder to get a hold of and seemed irritated at me TRYING to give him business. I paid for every tune yet he was still kind of meh about it. I've got other friends he's done the same to also. 1 friend he won't even respond to anymore.

Just my personal experience with both tuners. Up to you to choose but IMO i think it is hit or miss with both. Unfortunately though, they are the only 2 choices for the VQ's on the island. Seth just left a really bad taste in my mouth after the dyno's so I opted for Sean.

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Romanowski

So.. My I'm thinking about boosting my 370 (Prob SC), and need some advice on who I should see on island.

I might have to have my car shipped to Cali, but I want to avoid that.

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