I drive around 100 miles a day in SoCal traffic which equates to about 3-4 hours of seat time. In no way would I want to drive a manual around in that. Weekend car, sure. My daily has radar cruise control and I use that all the time. All I have to do is steer. So nice.
exactly why I didn’t reply to that….
example of a car I tuned today. Look at the top right. Pull one was my base map. Pull two was adding 2 degrees of timing. Pull three was 2 more degrees. Even though it made more power, it had corrections and did not make a big jump in power. Which is why I...
You should have 0 timing corrections, period. That is half the point of getting a custom tune. Noise can be an issue but doesn’t seem common with our cars. Pretty easy issue to figure out as a tuner, unless he doesn’t know what he is doing.
They are but since Bimmer remote is actually working on fixing everything in a timely manner, I would say that’s fine. I wouldn’t mind being a paying test victim as long as everything is sorted out, with no extra cost at the end. I do the same thing with customers and Whipple supercharger tunes...
I let my car run for 5-10 min after lapping. Gives the turbo time to cool down so you don’t bake oil inside it and end up with a failure.
pretty sure I also read that the water pump stays on after the car is shut down to help cool everything. Shuts off when the fan does.
I love it here too. However….. in the back of my head, I know I can sell my house and use the equity to buy a house cash in az. Then I could work at Autozone and still live comfortably.
This thread has shown me the people who think they know stuff actually don’t, vs people who just don’t know what they are posting. Without actual pressure drop differences from one side of the intake to the other, everyone is just guessing that it sucks. Chances are, in that aspect of things...