definitiveno
15+ Year Contributor
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- Sep 8, 2004
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Reno/Sacramento,
California
Hey guys, sorry for the long story up front. This whole DSM build has been one big, long, expensive cluster fu(k. I will try and spare you the details and be direct.
My car after about 5 years of sitting around is finally going to need to be tuned. My car originally had dsmlink V2 but after being robbed blind at a shop that was working on it and among other things that came up missing my cable was one of them. I could talk all day about this and the piece of shit who ran this shop but I don't know what DSMtuners policies are on this sort of thing any more. They used to reprimand, I will have to look through the rules again since it's been a long time since I was active here.
Anyway, I contacted Thomis at DSMlink who thankfully had a record of my purchase and he explained to me my options were to either buy a new cable for 65 or that I could purchase the upgrade + cable for 245. I don't know exactly what the differences are between the two but I will be researching alot over the next week to figure out what they are. I already like the idea of the V3 since it communicates direct with the GM maf but I want to hear what you guys think as well.
Heres a bit about my car as it sits now
Short block
Built by some idiot in new york that does online sales, he completely butchered the head that he gave me so I have no idea how the short block will hold up. ANyway it has forged pistons and rods, balanced, blue printed and the guy claims he puts a dowel or some thing that prevents crankwalk, whatever.
Head is from polk. After I saw the butcher job new york did I sent the head back and bought one from polk, cnc ported, oversize valves, dual titanium valves, o-ringed with brass or copper rings can't remember now. Polk was one of the few professional companies I had interactions with during this build. I paid them money, they delivered a quality part in a timely fashion.
Turbo is gt35rhta, .82 A/R with the GT exhaust housing. It is connected to a straightline equal length mani, 44mm tial and external dump. O2 housing was fabbed by RRE. They connected it to a megan exhaust.
Before the car was robbed it had a wide band installed and frankly I don't even know if it's still there. I am stationed in hawaii and my car is in california. My plan is to get the car running and ship it to my dad and let him cruise it around and keep it from sitting any longer. Also the car had fic 850's but I don't know if those were stolen and RRE put new ones in or what either. RRE was awesome cause they took my car which was a complete and utter train wreck and produced a working vehicle. I plan to take it back to them for the tune. RRE was one of the other few who was a straight shooting company. My only complaint was that they externally dumped the O2 when I asked for internal but my car was such a nightmare I didn't make a big deal cause they produced a running vehicle for me. They never churched any thing up, fed me hype or try to sell me one direction or the other......I said what I wanted, they said they could do it, and then they did it. Kudo's RRE.
I'm sure I left some stuff out, let me know if tyheres any more info I need to fill in that would help make a recomedation as well. I have been so out of the mix I have completely forgotten almost anything I used to know about all this stuff. I pretty much just focus on my jeep now days.
I will go through and try and update my profile the best I can right now....
Thanks in advance...
I'd like to tune on E85 mainly with a back up tune for 91. Hopefully info that may be helpful.
My car after about 5 years of sitting around is finally going to need to be tuned. My car originally had dsmlink V2 but after being robbed blind at a shop that was working on it and among other things that came up missing my cable was one of them. I could talk all day about this and the piece of shit who ran this shop but I don't know what DSMtuners policies are on this sort of thing any more. They used to reprimand, I will have to look through the rules again since it's been a long time since I was active here.
Anyway, I contacted Thomis at DSMlink who thankfully had a record of my purchase and he explained to me my options were to either buy a new cable for 65 or that I could purchase the upgrade + cable for 245. I don't know exactly what the differences are between the two but I will be researching alot over the next week to figure out what they are. I already like the idea of the V3 since it communicates direct with the GM maf but I want to hear what you guys think as well.
Heres a bit about my car as it sits now
Short block
Built by some idiot in new york that does online sales, he completely butchered the head that he gave me so I have no idea how the short block will hold up. ANyway it has forged pistons and rods, balanced, blue printed and the guy claims he puts a dowel or some thing that prevents crankwalk, whatever.
Head is from polk. After I saw the butcher job new york did I sent the head back and bought one from polk, cnc ported, oversize valves, dual titanium valves, o-ringed with brass or copper rings can't remember now. Polk was one of the few professional companies I had interactions with during this build. I paid them money, they delivered a quality part in a timely fashion.
Turbo is gt35rhta, .82 A/R with the GT exhaust housing. It is connected to a straightline equal length mani, 44mm tial and external dump. O2 housing was fabbed by RRE. They connected it to a megan exhaust.
Before the car was robbed it had a wide band installed and frankly I don't even know if it's still there. I am stationed in hawaii and my car is in california. My plan is to get the car running and ship it to my dad and let him cruise it around and keep it from sitting any longer. Also the car had fic 850's but I don't know if those were stolen and RRE put new ones in or what either. RRE was awesome cause they took my car which was a complete and utter train wreck and produced a working vehicle. I plan to take it back to them for the tune. RRE was one of the other few who was a straight shooting company. My only complaint was that they externally dumped the O2 when I asked for internal but my car was such a nightmare I didn't make a big deal cause they produced a running vehicle for me. They never churched any thing up, fed me hype or try to sell me one direction or the other......I said what I wanted, they said they could do it, and then they did it. Kudo's RRE.
I'm sure I left some stuff out, let me know if tyheres any more info I need to fill in that would help make a recomedation as well. I have been so out of the mix I have completely forgotten almost anything I used to know about all this stuff. I pretty much just focus on my jeep now days.
I will go through and try and update my profile the best I can right now....
Thanks in advance...
I'd like to tune on E85 mainly with a back up tune for 91. Hopefully info that may be helpful.
