Hi everyone,
I finally placed an order for an HPtuners device and I'm pretty excited to start learning how to tune my car. I had a focus ST before, I did the Cobb tuning class and got an Accestuner license but never actually tried to make my own tune. Eventually went big turbo and at that point I got too nervous to try and change anything because there was too much at stake. In general that motor had alot of control schemes going on, on top of all the regular timing control and HDFX stuff there were tons of extra tables for boost control and other things like that. It was too much for me as a first time tuner.
With the mustang I want to try and tune my own car, its a pain to have to go to a tuner every time I make a change, and with the car being NA I feel like I have a better chance at actually being successful. I've never written a tune, and I don't really know much about what goes into making a custom tune and I'm kind of nervous about breaking something. I know timing control, fueling, and knock retard are important to performance tunes, but i don't know how to change them and by how much or what order to change them in.
My goal is to start off by just making a really conservative 93 octane tune, on all stock hardware, then play with ethanol or race gas and eventually add in some simple bolt ons.
There's a lot of knowledge here, and its really great, but how did you guys learn all this stuff? How does someone new get started?
Thanks in advance
J