Hi! Been working on cars for years but I'm very new to real tuning, unfortunately I'm gonna have to learn as I go... but I need some help if possible in resurrecting my baby.
I was wondering if anyone had a safe tune, (something that won't blow up) for the ATK HP103 gen 3 hemi engine, just to get it home from the installer's so I can start tinkering and learning. The ECU is for the Dodge Magnum 5.7 2007 model, so I should have all the tuning features people like.
The basic situation is the engine died and needed replacing, something wrong with the original block, maybe a rod, something nasty, so I decided it was best to get a slightly built rebuilt engine rather than just a stock one, problem is this sucker needs a tune to run according to the seller's site. Ive read its the comp cams 268h, the specs of the cam in the engine are 216/220 @50 .528/.531 113LSA, and it'll have my bbk shorty headers, a cool air intake, suitcase delete and high flow cats. I just need something baseline, I don't much care about horsepower numbers right now, and once I save up enough to do it maybe I'll be able to pay someone to do a tune right, but just the engine is stretching my funds beyond their limits so I need something gentle that will get her home, and maybe let me get the wife to work while I'm working on dialing in the power..
Does anyone have something like that, or even better, have a tune designed for this specific off the shelf modified engine? Ive got about a week to figure this out before the engine ships to the mechanic, then about 2 days till it arrives, and then maybe a day for him to put her in. (I don't have the cherrypicker or hoist to lift engines or I'd be swapping it in here) My plan, hopefully, is to bring the laptop down, install a canned tune to get her home and work from there, because the mechanic does NOT tune, doesn't know how and wouldn't have time to if he did according to him. Its gonna fall to me.
If anyone does have a decent usable canned tune for the 06 magnum 5.7 please let me know. Ive got the 3rd rev of the hptuner software and cable if that's important.
Sorry for the super long post, didn't want to leave out anything important. I checked the repository with everything I hcould think If I could id post a file from my ECU but the car is at the installer's and thats allll the way across town, so just any 06/07 (maybe 08 too, I heard they have the same tuning options file would be fine. I do really want to learn how to do this right, but with time and funds extremely low I'm left to hope someone can share me a copy of their safe (conservative) tune for a similar cam and springs upgraded vehicle. I need to learn, and thus earn, the speed of a good tune.
Thanks! Isra