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Originally Posted by Darin Morgan
After you break it in correctly and have about 1500-1800miles on it Its time to turn up the wick and change the car into a REAL quick street car. After I got the CAI, headers and other things done on the car the increase in power was noticeable but not like a "Holy Crap this things bad ass" noticeable. It was more like a," Wow that really helped" noticeable. After you get all the "bolt on" MODs on the car your doing yourself a great disservice if you dont get a tune to make those MODs work to there maximum potential. After I got the first tune, It was like a whole new car. It changed the feel and sound of the car so profoundly that I still have not stopped smiling! I know that the tune voids the warranty but after experiencing how the tune completely and totally changed the feel, experience and the acceleration rate I would not even own the car if I could not do it. That's right. It changed the car so completely that if I had to buy another Camaro and was told that I could not tune it, I would not buy it. I would go get something else. Thats how profound it feels. All the street cars I have ever drove or experienced had nice firm or hard shifts and when you hit the throttle you had soothing to play with. The Stock Camaro with its HORRIBLE Torque management makes the car "soft". It shifts like transmission with the clutch packs half blown out of it. It shifts so soft and gives up so much power on the gear changes that it was actually pissing me off. 
A Trans should not shift like that in a high performance car ever! I did a lot of logging with the HpTuners software and e-mailed it to Mike at New Era. He e-mailed me a baseline tune to play with. Nothing to aggressive just somthing that he knew would be safe and fun. I flashed the tune into the car at 4:00p that evening. I was not expecting to feel and experience how profoundly it changed my entire experience with this car and I could not quite driving it until way into the wee hours of the next morning. After laying into the first time after the tune I thought," WOW I finally have a quick street car!". Not blinding fast mind you,, just quick. Thats all I wanted. I didnt want to run high 11s or even low 12s but a nice 12.80 or 12.90 would be just fine. The car will do that now no problem. It Barks the tires on the gear changes now and when it shifts (even at part throttle) it kicks you in the ass. 
After experiencing how profoundly a good tune can change this car, I now say SCREW THE WARRANTY!
I dont want it. |
Darin,
Okay now I have a question for you. I have read many threads concerning tuning and warranty coverage. What I would like to do is use the system that would enable me to reflash the car back to stock so I could take the car in for work and not worry about the warranty being killed.
I have read the ECM can show the dealer it has been tampered with and I have read it does no data logging and can not be used to show a tune if it's reflashed to stock. Now I am talking about tuning and then if I were to reflash back to stock and if I were to take it in could the dealer be able to see it had been previously tuned. I am sure without a doubt if the car was tuned and then taken in that could be seen if it were looked for.
So I would like you to give your thoughts on a reflash to stock after a tune if you think or know if it could be detected.
Thanks,
Clutch