G'day All,
I'm looking for guidence on whether I dive into learning to tune my own car now or later down the track.
Here's where I'm at,
Car is a 2012 SSV Sportswagon (6.0 L77 Manual)
Only mods are 3" cat back and K&N airfilter in stock airbox
stock tune
My plan was to buy a v2 scanner and start playing with the cars tune under the guidence of a mate who has many years efilive experience (twin turbo LS1 conversion in an 80 series landcruiser wagon, self tuned on the street, has run 12.98 1/4 mile!)
After building a bit of n/a tuning confidence over the next 12/24 months, putting a turbo system on the car and making some real power (fairly stock engine/low boost).
5+ year plan is to build a stout engine, up the boost and run 10 second 1/4's.
Here's where I get cold feet,
I called the efilive distributor (that specialises in holden tuning) and tell him what I want to do. Nice bloke named Steve, he tells me that he's happy to sell me a V2 but that he always warns customers that are looking to tune the more modern (post LS1) LS engines, that they aren't as simple to tune as the older LS1's. The tables are linked/blended by formulas/algorithms and changes to one affect others (or something to that effect) and it can take a lot of trial and error to get the desired result. He said "you can learn how to do it but you'll be looking at a considerable time investment to become proficient (1000 hours!).
I'd love to hear some opinions, especially from nubies to tuning that have had success tuning modern LS's
My dilema is that my car needs a tune, but I dont have a heap of cash to spend over the next 6-12 months. I also have a young (and growing) family, so can't spend hundreds of hours in the shed at the moment either.
Can I learn to tune myself with a reasonable time investment or am I better off spending my v2 scanner cash on a professional tune and waiting until I have more time and money?
Thanks heaps,
Jed