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bigkevracer Grand Master

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Can anyone suggest a good tuner in Adelaide?

I'm currently looking at ECU options for my M35 Stagea, and I'm thinking I should see what Adelaide tuners are familiar with before I make a decision.

Was looking Greddy Emanage or HKS Vcon, but am open to suggestion.

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The very REASON we have stickied threads at the top of the SA forums is to avoid threads like these.

Check out this one :

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/123887-workshop-autoparts-listing/

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Which is great, but there are no suggestions of who is good, nor what ECU will be easiest to tune.

I dont want to be locked into one tuner, and I always prefer to go somewhere personally recommended.

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Which is great, but there are no suggestions of who is good, nor what ECU will be easiest to tune.

I dont want to be locked into one tuner, and I always prefer to go somewhere personally recommended.

You're never LOCKED into one tuner. You DO have the right to go elsewhere.

And as to personally recommended - do you think if these guys were dodgy and werent vouched for, that we would bother to put them in a stickied thread for our users to go to? I think not. They're ALL good, and if you want to know if your ECU/ECU mod is supported, then get your yellow pages out and let your fingers do the walking... that, or spend all of 60 seconds using the search tool.

Information is at your fingertips, if you'd only exercise them. And no we're not going to tie your shoelaces. As much as he looks it, Nightcrawler is not your mum.

-D

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And as to personally recommended - do you think if these guys were dodgy and werent vouched for, that we would bother to put them in a stickied thread for our users to go to? I think not. They're ALL good, and if you want to know if your ECU/ECU mod is supported, then get your yellow pages out and let your fingers do the walking... that, or spend all of 60 seconds using the search tool.

Good point, but I was hoping people with experience with these tuners and aftermarket ECUs could provide suggestions/run downs. Maybe I phrased it wrong in the OP.

If no one has a personal opinion I'll have to chase it up with each workshop. I was hoping to avoid this, power of forums.

As much as he looks it, Nightcrawler is not your mum.

-D

Good, because that would just be weird...

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If you search around you will find an abundant amount of thread/posts suggesting that the best/most preferred tuners in Adelaide for Skylines are Martin at Willall Racing (who are also an SAU:SA club sponsor and you get discount there if you join the club), and Shaun at Boostowrx. There are others, such as Decs at Garage7, Simon at Morpowa, John Keen at Southern Hitech ....

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If you search around you will find an abundant amount of thread/posts suggesting that the best/most preferred tuners in Adelaide for Skylines are Martin at Willall Racing (who are also an SAU:SA club sponsor and you get discount there if you join the club), and Shaun at Boostowrx. There are others, such as Decs at Garage7, Simon at Morpowa, John Keen at Southern Hitech ....

Don't forget Horsepower In A Box if your down south (Whom I use), and I also hear Classic Perfrormance Dyno Centre isn't too bad either.

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Ultratune... the name says "tune" in it so they should be able to tune it right right?

How modified is your car? How modified are you planning to take it?

If its Ultra modified, it makes sense to go to the guys that are in tune with you, and your car.

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I spoke to Martin @ Willall on this topic briefly a few months back; to his knowledge no one in SA can tune FCons, but Willall do have experience with tuning the Emanage Ultimates - but (at the time at least) never on an M35.

I dont believe anyone in SA has had their M35 tuned, but I've almost finished sourcing the parts I need for my next upgrade & will be getting the guys down at Willall to see if they can work some magic. Being quite a common piggyback system, most of the major tuners in SA should be able to work with it though.

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Ultratune... the name says "tune" in it so they should be able to tune it right right?

How modified is your car? How modified are you planning to take it?

I had my last car tuned at Ultra Tune because it was simple... this one will be a little more complex.

It isn't modified at the moment, but I'm organising bits at the moment, so want to organise which ECU to use and pick it up as I find it cheap. Need to do turbo soon, so I'll be doing an upgrade, and working on supporting mods now, injectors, fuel pump, intercooler and ECU. Want to get all that in place before I do the turbo.

I spoke to Martin @ Willall on this topic briefly a few months back; to his knowledge no one in SA can tune FCons, but Willall do have experience with tuning the Emanage Ultimates - but (at the time at least) never on an M35.

I dont believe anyone in SA has had their M35 tuned, but I've almost finished sourcing the parts I need for my next upgrade & will be getting the guys down at Willall to see if they can work some magic. Being quite a common piggyback system, most of the major tuners in SA should be able to work with it though.

You're by hero! Have to catch up with you and discuss over a beer. I read through everything in the Stagea section and came to the conclusion F-con or Emanage was the way to go, depending on which you could get tuned locally. Sounds like Emanage is going to be easier in SA.

Fcon can only be tuned interstate. C red do it in Perth, Bd4s to it on the east coast and so do a few others.

Damn. Seemed like F-con was the best option, but not practical to use an interstate tuner.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll ring a couple and see what they say.

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The M35 is nothing like the C34/R32/R33/R34; nistune isnt an option at all.

I wish it was... sounds like the easiest option...

Trying to see if I can get a tuned ECU as a first step, Jetwreck speaks highly of Nismo ECU wih Emanage, would love to go the same. HKS is just too expensive and no tuners in SA :(

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