ok everyone, i have a question.

my boss has a Ford Ranger, and ever since he orderd up his SCT tunner, he has been wanting to get into the business.

now, SCT is currently solely for the Fords, but are producing stuff for DMC (chrysler) and GM, however they are neglecting anything smaller than the 3400 V6.

anyways, my boss has been looking into becoming an HP Tunner dealer, just to see what the costs are and what they have to offer.

now HP will be offering tunning for our engines, although limited to only certain years at the moment. as far as i know just about everything but the ecotec and 96 and lower j-bodies will be supported.

i am just trying to see, that if he does infact become a HP dealer, who would be interested in getting their vehicle tunned. ive already told him that i will be one of his first customers, and im sure he will be tunning his wifes 3400 G-am GT.

im just trying to see if there might be a decent sized customer base for him in the Southern Ontario area if he does get into the tunning business.

this is a great way to pick up extra power, refine your automatic transmission, increase fuel economy, and lots of other tasty extras.

*note* - for all those who would be considering this as a way to remove the manufacturers speed limiter, he is firm that he will not remove it, but only raise the limiter to match the speed rating of the tires equiped on the vehicle.






Injection is nice but id rather be BLOWN!

for christ sakes man its TUNER, and TUNED!!!!

surry, nexxttime ill used spul chek






Injection is nice but id rather be BLOWN!

When our applications are available, I plan on buying the full HP tuners kit, but I will need somewhere with proper facilities to tune my car...
If that is what he will be providing, put my name on the list.

well, he will more or less be actually tuning the cars.

as easy as you might think it is, they basically just give you the program then throw you out in the deepend of the pool.

tuning a car requires actually knowing what you have modified and what you need to modify, other wise you could severly damage something.

but, from what ive heard, if he ends up tuning enough vehicles to make it worth it, he wouldnt mind looking into obtaining a dyno.






Injection is nice but id rather be BLOWN!

Where is this located and what kind of tuning does it do?

will it help my car with bigger injectors bigger throttle body and a cam swap?

he lives in the Barrie, ON area, but this tuning would be portable anyways as long as he has a laptop.

he can basically do anything to your car. advance timming, change air fuel ratios if you dont have a MAF such as in the 2200. change transmission shift points (autos mostly), allow your car to gain extra power by utilizing a higher octane.

thats some of the things he has been able to do with his ford. from what he has told me, HP will basically allow him to edit anything he wants.

theres quite a bit of stuff that can be changed.

now he isnt 100% sure if he is going to buy the dealer kit from them or not yet, but he thinks so. even with the couple cars he has lined up for him just from some of the people he knows now he should atleast make his money back.






Injection is nice but id rather be BLOWN!

whitegoose wrote:allow your car to gain extra power by utilizing a higher octane.

That's the funniest crock I've heard in a long time.

Sounds like he's got you hook, line, and sinker if you seriously believe that line especially.

Let me say this: If it were really as easy as you're making it out to be, to crack the codes and change all these things on our cars, don't you think someone would already be DOING this?

Just a point to ponder...





14.330 @ 96.37mph

Lil Black Two Four: I'm pretty sure what he meant by that octane comment was that our cars could be tuned to effectivly use high octane gas (like 104 race gas) like the stage 3 kit for the srt-4, those guys get a big jump in power when running higher octane...

So far as cracking the code, you should check out the HPTuners websight, with their software, you could really open a supercharger up.
There has definitly been a painfull wait on this software (over a year) but it will be worth it when it comes out.

I'll give you a thousand bucks to tune my charger to run on 104 octane lol...
Give me a break...

I have HPTuners for my LS1.

First thing I purchased.

I didnt even know they made software for you guys.... good for you.






LS1's never blow up;
Spray that puppy... 02 sensors are overrated.

Brocklanders wrote:I'll give you a thousand bucks to tune my charger to run on 104 octane lol...
Give me a break...

if your going to act like a dick, why bother posting.

and smoking fire, thanks for explaining my comments a little bit more, that is what i was meaning.

right now, you can pump in 91 octane and not get any bennefits from it because our cars arent programmend for it.

if you have a turbo or super charger equiped, you pretty much have to run the higher octane to prevent detenation, but without an ECU that knows you are pumping in a higher octane, theres more power to be gained.

im going to have him tune my virtually stock motor. i want the power available more when i need it. by tuning it for something like 89 octane and bumping up the timming so i get more power out of the car and have him play with the trans mission for me too to get better gas milleage too.

if anyone with a turbo or super or even just some simple bolt ons is interested, just let me know, if he does get the software, i'll let all of you know aswell.






Injection is nice but id rather be BLOWN!

We'll see if HPTuners really does come through after years of broken promises.

You can do quite a bit with the software from what I can see... but getting more power with higher octane gas, even with tuning? Um - no. And a waste of money.

-Chris-



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