I went to milan last wednesday for test-n-tune.
About 7 miles out everything was wet, I kept going.
4 miles out it was dry, I thought I lucked out.
A mile or two from the track there was water everywhere.
They said the track would be dry in less than an hour so I went in.
They were right, the track was dry, but the system was not working.
They couldn't print out a slip.
I waited until 4:45 and gave up.
I had a couple of bags of ice on the intake, the car was "cool".
I was anxious to see if the valve cleaning made a difference.
No idea, that's my kind of luck
This morning I went out and changed everything but the MAP sensor.
I got the car up to temp refilled the coolant and did the first "burp" on the reservoir.
I changed the MAP out and flashed the car.
I hooked up a battery charger (from a stealbluesho video) and flashed the car.
I'm glad I've seen some videos or read about the flashing process because the POP through the speakers was alarming.
I remembered that was normal as well as the car going off/on.
I waited for the car to cool, checked the coolant level and went for a drive.
I had some idea of what to expect.
The first few shifts were odd, like a hard/firm shift with no no power behind it.
I was taking it very easy.
The shifting went back to "normal" very quickly.
I have been logging my car for about a month now and OAR has always been -.96.
Never anything else.
By the time I got to Meijer the OAR was -.73.
That was not good, I only run Meijer 93.
I pulled back out onto the road, put the shifter in sport, paddled to 3rd and slowly pushed the gas.
When I stopped at the next light The OAR was -.93, getting better.
I've read a lot about this and how to get the car to "relearn".
I don't know if it helped or if it is just the tune and the ecu figuring things out.
I did one log (1st - 3rd) The car does get out of its own way much better now.
I also noticed in the log that I don't have "torque source 1" popping up in ever gear. It is "torque source 0" now.
That is nice.
The car feels great and it is noticeable that Matt shortens/lowers the shift points.
That will take some getting used to.
I also sent an email to alky controls about a kit. There aren't any listed and I don't know what all I will need. I think I will put one on in the spring.
I'm not sure how much a non meth dependent tune will lower a 1/4 mile time on average.
I'll have to figure out how to send a log to Matt to see if everything looks good to him.
I assume I send it to the sales@ghtuning or somewhere else.
For now I will be enjoying my "new" car.
My brother and I were talking the other day. He has a '13 focus that pretty much only knows full throttle and hard braking and I'm tuning a car with 99,000 miles on it.
When we were younger and you had a car with 70-80,000 miles on it was worn out and not reliable.
Things have change so much.
Thanks for all your help SHOdded.
I will try to get back to milan in the next couple of weeks and post some slips.
