Edit Advice

[d202008]

  blueboost said:

  d202008 said:

Nick the Dynowog is a top tuner in Melbourne. I had mine retuned by him today and the difference is unbelievable. My car was originally tuned by well known edit tuning place but the result was way below expectations. As the old tune is still on the flasher I was able to do comparative runs and its a huge difference.

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Huge difference in power or econ, it's just that a lot of edited cars seem to run rich at idle and just above, did Nick tidy that up?

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huge difference in power.. econ ways dont know yet, only have the new tune since friday. Nick says there will be improvement "under normal driving"... will see how it is after a month. at the moment been gunning the car every chance I get.

[dingah2]

Whilst the topic of economy and potential gains with Edit is understanable considering the recent hikes in the reatil price of fuel it comes down to the human factor in every case.

It's not Edit or Exede or Unichip that provides better economy - they merely provide an opportunity. It is you the user and your tuner that are the key links in possibly achieving better performance and economy.

Every tuner has different styles of tuning and sees different criteria as being important to them in gaining that little bit extra out of each engine - those are their 'secrets' and are what makes or breaks them with reputations. It is important for you and your tuner to develop a relationship (!?) to allow your tuner to understand exactly what sort of outcomes you are after - drievability, raw power, low range torque, better consumption and so on - this sort of understanding and the ability to reflect those characteristics in your car's performance are what makes a good tuner.

The other human factor is you the user. I can hardly imagine that your driving style will not change when you have a 50% increase in power available to you - after all why did you fork out 100s of even 1000s of dollars to get this on tap? There are probably no two modified Ts out there with the same tune thus any comparison (just like dyno figures) of consumption, torque, power and so on is totally arbritary; 1/4 times reflect this where different drivers in the same car on the same night will likley achieve quite different outcomes - is thaqt a reflection of the car of the user? This is also similar to the fallacy of comparing dyno figures from different cars on different systems - there are too many variables at play to make any sense of these numbers.

So only a VERY careful before and after comparison based on exact amounts of fuel from the same source (even that's a challenge as it's like trying to shove doughnuts down a soda straw when filling a T to the top) versus mileage covered are the only potential guide as in many cases the consumption readouts on the dash become eroneous.

Dingah

[EvilDaifu]

On the topic of fuel economy and driving your edited car to get better fuel economy, I've often wondered about servicing your edited car. Like, do you take it back to normal settings before you take it to Ford Service, or do you take it somewhere else for servicing because Ford will say "Sorry, no can service because you've modified the computer parameters..."?

Thanks.

[Flukey]

  EvilDaifu said:

On the topic of fuel economy and driving your edited car to get better fuel economy, I've often wondered about servicing your edited car.  Like, do you take it back to normal settings before you take it to Ford Service, or do you take it somewhere else for servicing because Ford will say "Sorry, no can service because you've modified the computer parameters..."?

Thanks.

My car is now serviced by my Edit tuner. No hasssles and he doesnt charge to adjust the handbrake like my Ford dealer did.

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  dingah2 said:

Whilst the topic of economy and potential gains with Edit is understanable considering the recent hikes in the reatil price of fuel it comes down to the human factor in every case. 

It's not Edit or Exede or Unichip that provides better economy - they merely provide an opportunity.  It is you the user and your tuner that are the key links in possibly achieving better performance and economy. 

dw...how true

Every tuner has different styles of tuning and sees different criteria as being important to them in gaining that little bit extra out of each engine - those are their 'secrets' and are what makes or breaks them with reputations.  It is important for you and your tuner to develop a relationship (!?) to allow your tuner to understand exactly what sort of outcomes you are after - drievability, raw power, low range torque, better consumption and so on - this sort of understanding and the ability to reflect those characteristics in your car's performance are what makes a good tuner.

dw.....or one that delivers all the above

The other human factor is you the user.  I can hardly imagine that your driving style will not change when you have a 50% increase in power available to you - after all why did you fork out 100s of even 1000s of dollars to get this on tap?  There are probably no two modified Ts out there with the same tune thus any comparison (just like dyno figures) of consumption, torque, power and so on is totally arbritary; 1/4 times reflect this where different drivers in the same car on the same night will likley achieve quite different outcomes - is thaqt a reflection of the car of the user?  This is also similar to the fallacy of comparing dyno figures from different cars on different systems - there are too many variables at play to make any sense of these numbers.

dw...yep

So only a VERY careful before and after comparison based on exact amounts of fuel from the same source (even that's a challenge as it's like trying to shove doughnuts down a soda straw when filling a T to the top) versus mileage covered are the only potential guide as in many cases the consumption readouts on the dash become eroneous.

dw....fill up at specific pump, wait till it click 3 times, zero your odo, drive, come back fill to 3 clicks again, count the k's and the litres.  that's the best way stuff the trip computer!!!!

Dingah

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[cqae]

dynowog, I am still thinking about the edit, but would like to know, in general, how are the autos & diffs holding up with the extra grunt?

this is one thing that concerns me.