Newbie - contemplating tuning recent LS swaps myself

[ScottEwine]

Good Afternoon All,

In the last year I have completed an LS3/TR6060 swap from a 2013 SS Camaro into a '73 Corvette, and a LS6/4L60E from a 2002 Z28 into a '75 Corvette. Both run pretty well but are in need of a tune. I was going to take it to a tuning shop, but then thought maybe I would do it myself, I am putting together a list of pros and cons regarding getting into doing it myself and was looking for input:

Pros
Cheaper(?) - the local tuners want about $500-$800 for each car, it seems with the hardware and credits using HP tuner would be cheaper than that for two cars
Fun - I have restored several cars and built engines/rebuilt carbs/ etc. so this seems right up my alley, also have an ME degree and took internal combustion engine design in college and for much of my professional life I have worked on control systems for nuclear power plants / refineries etc so this is just a smaller version of that.
Quality - potentially can get a better tune than the local guy

Cons
May bust something.
May end up with worse tune.

Let me know any thoughts or advice!

Thanks,

Scott
Frederick, MD

[SultanHassanMasTuning]

depending on the parts on both projects, and the time on your hands. both GEN III and GenVI are fairly straight forward

[dhoagland]

With your background and all the Tutorials and Videos available I don't see any problems doing it yourself.
And if you decide to change this down the road you can dial that in yourself.

Only draw back I see is time, as mentioned above, (Learning and Tuning)

[ScottEwine]

With your background and all the Tutorials and Videos available I don't see any problems doing it yourself.
And if you decide to change this down the road you can dial that in yourself.

Only draw back I see is time, as mentioned above, (Learning and Tuning)

I plan on getting the MPVI2 with two credits from Summit today, that will get me started on the LS6, stand by for lots of questions!

Scott

[village_idiot]

I?d order it with the pro feature set so you can wire in a wideband. You can use the AEM with the obd2 pass through on some models (2010ish+ IIRC), but it doesn?t support the older Gen3 stuff on pass through