i've read the tutorials & read them again & again. yeah, i've been chasing this tuning stuff pretty hard in the last couple weeks with reading whatever i can find on here that pertains to what i need to know, but i really only get to mess with the car for maybe an hour, two at the most, every couple days & thats only if it doesn't rain. i've had the car to 2 professional tuners. here how the "professional" tunes went: the first tuner did the first tuning on the car in about 2 hours, seemed like he had better things to do, told me to buy EFILive & start learning & that he would help me learn over the phone or email & all that fun stuff. i tried repeatedly to get back in contact with him & haven't heard from him since. at the time i had nitrous on my car with all the timing retards & everything & he didn't care about how they worked or care to even try to really tune for the nitrous. he just ripped a bunch of timing out of the car & added i believe 5% more fuel the whole way through the table. since then i've sold the nitrous off the car, because it wasn't really tuned for it & didn't want to hurt my engine.
the second tuner which had my car late this spring, fixed just about everything the original tuner did that i wasn't happy about, but he had the car for 4 days & never noticed a lean condition the car has up to about 1600 rpms. the car also seems more jerky at highway speeds in 6th gear. i've emailed him & he was working on the lean condition from some of the logs i sent him, but then he said he didn't understand why the car was going lean & i haven't heard from him in a month.
if you can recommend me a tuner that is going to actually "tune" this car, i'm all ears. i was going to trailer the car to Florida for Doc to tune it, but towing from Pennsylvania to Florida is unfortunately not a option any time in the near future.
i hope you don't take any of this the wrong way, but maybe some of the back story as to why i'm here posting & asking questions will now make more sense. i'm just a newbie with no tuning experience looking to tune my car because it seems the professionals i pay good money to do so, can't do it.