Happy 2024 everyone

[sherlock9c1]

Happy New year - yes steveo, you should definitely do tuning. There are very few tuners who will do Gen 2 LT1s; Brandon Strong in Oklahoma will do them, and a few others, but that's it. There are still good people who will pay for good work; those are the people you want to work with.

I've been sucked up into a new job and the usual family/community involvement. My goal is to finish up the two non-running cars I have at the house, build some 4L60Es for people who have been bugging me for them, and go through some 1992-1996 LT1 engines I have at the house, get them into cars and have fun dynoing them.

Stretch goal is to help Tom H finish his '96-97 LT1 flashing tool and then work with Jim_CT_9C1 to flesh out the XDF for it.

A shop near me has a hub dyno, and I plan to make good use of it this year. Why tuners with high-power cars still use inertial dynamometers still boggles my mind. You need the RPM slew rates low enough that transients don't dominate the data.

[steveo]

there are some really great tools out there.

after putting in a gazzillon hours on eehack, flashhack, etc... guys like kur4o, pete, joukoy, antus really got stuff going on the newer engines. universal patcher is just terrifying, i have no idea how it works so well.

today i grabbed my obd x pro, pcm hammer, and universal patcher, helped a kid at work disable pointless codes for his cat and evap on his 4.3 blazer using all free tools

[JimCT_9C1]

Stretch goal is to help Tom H finish his '96-97 LT1 flashing tool and then work with Jim_CT_9C1 to flesh out the XDF for it.

... and for me, to finish up on the associated adx/datalogger.

Wishing good luck and success to everyone on all their 2024 projects!

Jim

[2xls1]

As someone who has been tuning professionally for 20 years and winding down due to age, my advice to you is it's not a business that you think it will be. Many customers are never satisfied, no matter what happens to their vehicle in the future you WILL get a call from them, it's always the tuners fault, and are you prepared to handle things when things go bad and or break while tuning them. About half of the modded vehicles will have mechanical or electrical issues that need to be addresses before they are ready to tune. It's kind of a thankless business. If you do go through with it get a good lawyer to write up a liability waiver and carry a lot of business liability insurance. And also be aware that the EPA is out there looking for shops deleting emissions from vehicles and HP Tuners has eliminated a lot of the ability to do that in their latest software revisions.