Dynosty - Review / Results / Experience
 

Yesterday I had my car down at Dynosty in Louisville Kentucky to be tuned. I originally found them as they were the closest "Master Tuner" for ECUTek on ECUTek's website. Their website seemed ok, and I spoke with another member here who had used them who had all positive things to say. I asked a few questions over the phone and they took the time to answer all my questions and scheduled my tune.

Since it was early in the morning, I did show up a bit early, but the shop was still open and in a decent location. It really was a great experience. I spoke with Logan for a bit. Hal did my tuning, and he came out, and I talked to him about asked him some more questions. He explained some options to me, as well as made some suggestions. Took down some notes and went to work.

Overall it was an excellent experience. The shop is a very professional place. I've seen some "fly-by-night" places, this is NOT that. This is a very nice establishment. They have a large shop area, they have a little show room, they have a waiting area. I would definitely recommend them. The entire experience was very impressive.

As for my tune. Peak HP at the wheels I gained 13 HP. My AFR wasn't off by as much as I thought it was going to be. However the power really isn't the biggest thing. If I bought another car and didn't do any modifications, I'd go get it tuned again. The throttle response is night and day different. The way the car drives is completely different. So in that aspect alone it was money well spent.

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Nice numbers, what mods do you have?

I guess that would have been helpful information... The basic stuff, Stillen G3 Intake, Berk HFC, Fast Intentions (non-resonated) CBE.

Picking mine up tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!

They've had it all week and I'm pretty excited to get it back.:excited::excited::excited::excited::excited: :excited:

Did you see those Volks they had for sale? If they were gunmetal I'd have bought them on the spot.

The Gold ones? They would look good one my car. I asked about them, but they were G35 / 350Z wheels so I assumed the backspacing would not be ideal for a 370Z.

I didn't ask that. I just asked the diameter. Good price though.


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Got my car back today and what a difference! My neighbors will hate me.
Not sure what my HP is, but I know it is lower than I was hoping for. 115,000 miles tends to lower the peak. Still enough to get in trouble.

Edit: Dyno sheet.
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Taking my stock sport Z down to Dynosty in about a month. Waiting on the Motordyne Shockwave to be delivered. Also getting the Stillen G3 CAI. EcuTek as well. Can't wait :D

I wish there was a Master Tuner in the upper midwest..

Had mine there the Tuesday before ZdayZ. I too had a great experience with Logan and Hal. If you look at my signature, you'll see what mods I have with the HP/TQ numbers from Dynosty...

Logan and Hal rock. They have tuned me twice. Talk about customer service!!!!!

Also getting my Z tuned there on Friday! What kind of suggestions do you guys have? Certain maps?

They will offer your normal/base map, a 3k launch (read rev limiter) map with flat foot shifting and then valet mode (not truly a map).

From there you can request more maps that meet your need.

do you need to ask for a sharper, more responsive throttle or is that a default benefit of EcuTek?

The launch control and flat foot shifting is an option for the cars that have SyncrhoRev (SRM). The launch control is adjustable, you can set it at any RPM you want at any time up or down, with the cruise control switch, it's not a map. The valet mode, you can specify your own options, if you have special requests, I did.

It's just default benefit.

Nice! Glad you chose Dynosty!
I think they will have a Dyno Day soon so stay tuned! :D

I tried launch control a few days ago. Yikes! Scared the crap out of me. :icon14:

Currently sitting in the shop lobby while Hal works his magic! Great customer service here so far, real helpful with all my questions. Will update here in a bit on if the eight hour drive from KC was worth it, but it's hard to think I could be disappointed..

UPDATE:
Just finished my long drive back home. Wow. Sharper throttle response, significant gains throughout the powerband, and it pulls much harder. So, so satisfied with Dynosty's ecutek tuning. This car finally feels like the sports coupe it was meant to be.

PS - the flat foot shifting feature is hilariously awesome.

Good to hear. I still haven't tried the flat foot. After driving stick for so many years, it's hard as crap to get my brain to let my foot stay down. I instinctively want to lift.

Taking mine down on July 11th for a ecutek tune, Motordyne CBE, and CAI Stillen G3 install.

I'm starting to feel anxious!

Hal and Logan are awesome had my car tuned about in May. If you can get a couple people to go at the same time they do group rates. A friend and me went down there. I have K&N intake 1320 performance test pipes and HKS exhaust. Made 316 whp and 266 trq. Ill post a picture later. Will go back when I go forced induction for a return.

I also drove 6 1/2 hours to go there.

Glad you had a good experience

Mine, not so much. Their onboard E85 monitor is constantly off when compared with a manual testing device. Their excuse was the manual device was wrong, until I told them I tested E85 race fuel with a guaranteed value which the manual device nailed spot on and their gauge did not.

Come to find out they use multiple (brands) of flow through sensors and don't calibrate the gauges properly. After many conversations with them and sending my gauge back for testing they never made godo on it (6+ months of contact) before I ultimately sold the car. They refused to test the sensor when I offered to send it in.

You've been warned

Hi Keith,

I'm fairly new to the E85 but done a lot of research. are you saying, once someone installs say a super charger and they switch to E85, they (hal) provides you a gauge monitor? are you saying the monitor they provide is bad? if so, what monitor do you recommend using?

Thanks in Advance!

Dynostay sells (sold) a full E85 onboard onitor with gauge and sensor. That is what my above experience is with. I never talked to Hal and this was 4 or so years ago when I dealt with (apparently) office staff. Wasn't the best experience I've had with a proprietor.

love the launch control

So it's been almost a year later, and my car just now decided to have check engine light problems from my HFCs, on a daily basis. I called up Dynosty and explained what I had going on. They pulled up my record where they had done the tune, and gave me several options. It was excellent support and an easy fix. I did opt to pick up Bluetooth kit from them, and Hal sent me a modified version of my map and I was able to flash it to my car and save myself a trip down there. Easy as could be.

I've had my tune for almost 1.5 years now and have to say the magic has worn off.

Shortly after getting tuned I noticed there was an issue with downshifts which has persisted to this day. When I blip for downshifts (I almost never use S-mode) the throttle simply wont react. It may give a dull rev, but I have to put my foot through the floorboard to get the thing to truly rev-match and its completely inconsistent for when it happens and which gears between 3-2 and 4-3. Sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn't, but it always drives me nuts.

Additionally, the car feels down on power and pretty soft overall compared to initial impressions, still have a horribly laggy throttle at times. I also have issues with hot starts where the car will nearly die before finding the proper idle.

I just bought an ECUTEK cable to do a remote correction, so I'm hoping they can fix it. Still, its kind of disappointing to see Dynosty-tuned 370's with various combos of I/HFC/TP/CBE only dropping mid-high teens in the 300 horsepower range. Especially when other shops seem to get similarly modded cars into the 320-330 range (specialtyZ, SOHO, Z1).

Would any other Dynosty customers want to chime in? I can either do an e-tune from a recommended tuner or rent a dyno locally for Dynosty to correct. Same cost either way.

I had my 40th tuned last year from Dynosty and I am 100% satisfied that they got every bit of HP that they could from the mods that I have. The car is more fun to drive, has excellent throttle response and even raised the MPG a bit.

You mention that some other tuners may be squeezing more juice from their tunes, but we are not comparing apples to apples. Their dynos may be the difference in the results. It could just be the margin for errors that is the difference as well. No two dynos give the exact same results, so I will hazard to say that may be one of the biggest reason.

Now, if you were to get a car tuned at Dynosty and another one of the tuners mentioned and used the SAME dyno for BOTH tuners and the results were different, then you may be on to something.

All I know (for my situation), Dynosty got the most performance out of my Z that they could.

I’ll rescind my comments about Dynosty’s tune quality earlier. While the hot start issue/throttle lag was a bit annoying, Hal got me squared away today via remote tune. Dealt with 1.5 hours of software issues to kick things off, but once ecutek decided to work on my laptop he sharpened the throttle, fixed the idle, and added a hotboi map for pops and bangs. Car pulls hard and feels excellent once again.

Customer service was excellent. I told them what I had and the goal I wanted to accomplish. They delivered, car feels fantastic to drive (and let's just face it.. launch control and no lift shift are laughable fun but should give me an extra .10+ in ax).

Stillen intakes, HFC's, ARK CBE (car previouly tuned by an unknown tuner on uprev):
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Good choice in color! All of my Installs/Tune are done by them :)
Also helps living 15 min away lol