Let me start by saying that I fully expect gorilla to post an " I told you so" somewhere in this thread.
Some of you may have read my post earlier this year, back in Jan., that I was going to get a custom tune!! I was pumped, got pics of the rig on the dyno and they were going to post the dyno results on there site when we finished. As you can see there are no pics or links posted as of yet. Everything started out great, did a couple of test runs to get a base and then the tuning began. We started at 188 rwh and with a few adjustments we were at 20+ gains to the rwh!! I was like a kid, then he tells me he needs to adjust the a/f ratios and I should get more power and better fuel mileage. I'm thinking to myself that this is the greatest thing I have ever done, more power and better mpg!!Then the whispering and huddling over the laptop. Oh crap, what is going on? I got there at 8am and didn't get home till almost 4pm, that's with a 45min drive both ways. There was zero excitement on the way home, just hope and disappointment. For whatever reason they couldn't adjust the a/f ratio, no matter what they did it just wouldn't let them change anything. According to the tuner all the info and updates had been downloaded and they had support from unichip, still nothing. We decided to call it a day and I would pull the chip out and send it to the tuners so they could do more work with unichip on the phone and I would get it back in a week or so..............................Now I knew they were going out of town in the start of February so I didn't expect the chip till the end of the second week. So here we are in the middle of March and I got the chip 2 days ago via fedex! Here we go, its finally time to get the power that I've dreamed about for soooooo long. After I closed the shop on Wednesday I got to work on getting that bad boy in there, by this time I'm a pro at installing these things in our trucks. Get everything wired up, reconnect the red top ( Thats a whole nother story for a different day!!!) and now is time to crank that sucker up...................do I hear the sound of sweet exhaust? The rumble of the magna flo's, NOPE!! Just the sound of the starter, over and over and over and over, you get the point. Not a damn thing happened, nothing! All this time and the damn thing wouldnt even start? Pissed isn't even close to describing my mood, add that to the fact that my wife is on strike right now and you can imagine how emotional I was. I grab my phone and email unichip and the tuners and tell them what is going on. I have to say too, this whole time I never once got ugly, impatient, rude, or bothersome, just sent emails every week to see what the progress was. The email on Wednesday was the same, just explain what is going on and ask for help. Unichip replied in about 20mins, I was told that it sounded like a connection issue and I should reinstall making sure that all the connectors click. I'm ok with that, I could have rushed to get it in, very unlikely but possible. So today was the second install, I even downloaded the directions just in case my 31 year old memory was failing. Guess how this ends???? Yep, same damn thing happened again. So I have emailed the same group of guys that I emailed Wednesday, and I did not get a 20 minute response, hell I haven't even gotten a response yet, that was 3 hours ago. So the waiting and disappointment continues and if either the wife ends her strike or they fly to my house and fix the problem y'all might see me on the news later....I'm interested in the responses and like I stated at the start of this post, we should see gorilla on here pretty soon to give me that " I told you so".
Some of you may have read my post earlier this year, back in Jan., that I was going to get a custom tune!! I was pumped, got pics of the rig on the dyno and they were going to post the dyno results on there site when we finished. As you can see there are no pics or links posted as of yet. Everything started out great, did a couple of test runs to get a base and then the tuning began. We started at 188 rwh and with a few adjustments we were at 20+ gains to the rwh!! I was like a kid, then he tells me he needs to adjust the a/f ratios and I should get more power and better fuel mileage. I'm thinking to myself that this is the greatest thing I have ever done, more power and better mpg!!Then the whispering and huddling over the laptop. Oh crap, what is going on? I got there at 8am and didn't get home till almost 4pm, that's with a 45min drive both ways. There was zero excitement on the way home, just hope and disappointment. For whatever reason they couldn't adjust the a/f ratio, no matter what they did it just wouldn't let them change anything. According to the tuner all the info and updates had been downloaded and they had support from unichip, still nothing. We decided to call it a day and I would pull the chip out and send it to the tuners so they could do more work with unichip on the phone and I would get it back in a week or so..............................Now I knew they were going out of town in the start of February so I didn't expect the chip till the end of the second week. So here we are in the middle of March and I got the chip 2 days ago via fedex! Here we go, its finally time to get the power that I've dreamed about for soooooo long. After I closed the shop on Wednesday I got to work on getting that bad boy in there, by this time I'm a pro at installing these things in our trucks. Get everything wired up, reconnect the red top ( Thats a whole nother story for a different day!!!) and now is time to crank that sucker up...................do I hear the sound of sweet exhaust? The rumble of the magna flo's, NOPE!! Just the sound of the starter, over and over and over and over, you get the point. Not a damn thing happened, nothing! All this time and the damn thing wouldnt even start? Pissed isn't even close to describing my mood, add that to the fact that my wife is on strike right now and you can imagine how emotional I was. I grab my phone and email unichip and the tuners and tell them what is going on. I have to say too, this whole time I never once got ugly, impatient, rude, or bothersome, just sent emails every week to see what the progress was. The email on Wednesday was the same, just explain what is going on and ask for help. Unichip replied in about 20mins, I was told that it sounded like a connection issue and I should reinstall making sure that all the connectors click. I'm ok with that, I could have rushed to get it in, very unlikely but possible. So today was the second install, I even downloaded the directions just in case my 31 year old memory was failing. Guess how this ends???? Yep, same damn thing happened again. So I have emailed the same group of guys that I emailed Wednesday, and I did not get a 20 minute response, hell I haven't even gotten a response yet, that was 3 hours ago. So the waiting and disappointment continues and if either the wife ends her strike or they fly to my house and fix the problem y'all might see me on the news later....I'm interested in the responses and like I stated at the start of this post, we should see gorilla on here pretty soon to give me that " I told you so".