Getting your car tuned from someone across the country is always going to cause problems for some cars. Even after all the new SCT dealer/tuners work on a ton of SRT-4's and get to know all the little nuances and variations in the stock calibration and how to modify it they'll be going off their experience to ensure your car runs safe and performs well. Some of them will tune conservative and the customer won't be happy because they didn't gain power (even though the car may run better and safer over the long term). Some will push the tune too far and the customer won't monitor on their own and the cars will blow up. Some will run into issues that are extremely hard to diagnose and correct in the tune because of the car, and it may not even be something with the tune but another part or limitation in the setup, then said customer will not be happy and get jaded against SCT and their tuner. And some will be perfectly happy and sing endless praise.
As the tuners learn it will hopefully shift towards that last one but you have to accept the risk you might run into those other issues. And it's not a cheap purchase and right now the customer can't even data log (with Live Link via the XCal2) so you unless you already have a compliment of logging and data acquisition equipment you'll have to rely and take that risk the tuner knows what they're doing and can resolve issues "blind" so to speak if you do have a problem.
There's great potential with these capabilities but you have to understand the risks with any tuner. Even one that has access to your car and can tune on a loading dyno and verify on the street may have issues if they don't have a ton of experience with tuning the SRT-4 via SCT.
Last edited by blackbird_R/T : 05-13-2008 at 08:32 PM.
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