He rolled in with his coveted white 2016 Civic 1.5L turbo that he’s been experimented with. Fun fact, Doug Macmillan (president of Hondata) stopped by the shop and sat in my passenger seat while my car was on the dyno. Also, since the car is strapped to a dyno, you don’t get a real sense of how the car will actually handle on the road (which was why I wasn’t completely satisfied with the dyno tune). Unfortunately, this service comes at at a high premium since my dyno tuner charges $500 to tune TSXs. This whole process, if done right, is very safe and is completed in less than 2 hours. Throughout the runs, the tech adjusts various parameters to eventually arrive with a calibration file with your car’s optimal performance output.
Etunes vs dyno in the winter series#
The tech straps your car to a dyno (in my case, it was a Dynapak dyno that mounted the car at the wheel hub), they do a series of WOT and partial throttle runs to capture live data logs with the Flashpro. In any case, here are my impressions that compare the 2 types of tuning processes.ĭyno Tuning: Dyno tuning is very simple from the customer’s perspective. Wasn’t completely happy with the dyno tune, and after reading many glowing reviews of Vit Viper’s services decided to do the e-tune as well. I recently got a Flashpro dyno tune, and soon after that, got a Flashpro e-tune from VitViper.
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an e-tune, I have some answers that may help you.
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Hey fellow TSXers, if anyone is debating between getting a dyno tune vs.