New member - tuner here for support

[americanmotorsport.com]

Hello,

I "frequent" several boards and answer questions related to various things. I also make and sell chips and flashes for almost every Ford vehicle, including the Taurus.

Prior to starting American MotorSport, I was affiliated with Inject-Tech (one of the founding parents of SCT). I was also involved in the pre-production and development of the SCT tuning software.

Through our experience and dealings, we have compiled an extensive database resulting from over 2,500 dynoruns on just Ford products and over 2,000 mail-order chips for last year alone. With data on performance combinations like yours or close to yours, I can get your tune closer than most on the first burn. Our experience also allows us to make changes others do not, resulting in optimal driveability.

I am a new user to this forum. I am very knowledgeable with regards to the Ford EEC. I will be around to answer any quesitons and help out any way I can.

 

[Bob Gervais]

Guys, Alberto is great to deal with. I've had my 97 SLO PCM reflashed by him, and it was correct the first time. Alberto's been on the TCCA for about 2 months or so, and has been very helpful, not only in tuning, but in straight answers about fuel injector sizing, MAF sizing and basically how everything works. Wish I could get more technical, but I don't know much about EEC, just that I was very satisfied with the results from Alberto and American MotorSport.

 

[mholhut]

What can you do for the Lincoln LS? naughty

 

[americanmotorsport.com]

I can make something for all Lincolns and Mercury's also, and some limited Jaguars. If you send me your EEC code via e-mail to [email protected] I can probably make somethign for you.

 

[SHODWN]

what can you guarentee us? Tell me somethng new please. Sorry to sound sarcastic, But I bet I spent half of what you have in equiptment on chips and tuneing already.

Tell me some good news and Ill see you within 24hrs. Ill drags Mikes Slow *** Lincoln there too. Oh Ill bet Hurder will bite too. How are you on SC cars?

Fell free to write me offline at [email protected]

If you can do what you say ,and Bob G backed you up which is close enough for me, I can set up My club NESHOC up for you to come visit for a dyno day..

Arlington is a nice easy ride from Mass..

 

[SHODWN]

Oh and welcome

 

[americanmotorsport.com]

SHODWN:
what can you guarentee us? Tell me somethng new please. Sorry to sound sarcastic, But I bet I spent half of what you have in equiptment on chips and tuneing already.

Tell me some good news and Ill see you within 24hrs. Ill drags Mikes Slow *** Lincoln there too. Oh Ill bet Hurder will bite too. How are you on SC cars?

Fell free to write me offline at [email protected]

If you can do what you say ,and Bob G backed you up which is close enough for me, I can set up My club NESHOC up for you to come visit for a dyno day..

Arlington is a nice easy ride from Mass..

I can do SC cars, no problem, provided you have an adequate MAF, pump, etc.

If you'd like, I can sell you a chip, mail order, and you can drive it around. I have a 10-day money-back guarantee which starts after the last burn. Now if you find that it is close enough and suits your tastes, you can come down for a dynotune or you can make a dynorun up there, send me the prinout and I can perfect your tune. If you find that after 1-3 burns it is nowhere close, then you can return it, withouht having gone on the dyno, and waste no money other than s/h. Usually though, if I can't get it 90% there, there is an issue with the car. We can then troubleshoot it or you can just return the chip. How does that sound?

<small>[ February 13, 2004, 11:46 PM: Message edited by: americanmotorsport.com ]</small>

 

[f150fan]

On all the V8 SHO's, when the climate control is activated on "Auto" the car's PCM will lock and unlock the torque converter every 6-10 seconds when cruising at a constant speed with constant pedal pressure. Any way to eliminate this? As Kirk implied above, there has been few good things to say with chips and the V8 SHO's...have you had any success with these cars?

 

[americanmotorsport.com]

The converter is locked and unlocked based on TP and MPH...not sure what you mean in regards to the climate control.

However, one of the things I do is to revise the torque converter function to eliminate shudder and allow it to run cooler. I modify the lock and unlock schedule.

 

[f150fan]

americanmotorsport.com:
The converter is locked and unlocked based on TP and MPH...not sure what you mean in regards to the climate control.

In all the V8SHO's, when the Climate Control is selected on any of the functions besides "vent" or "off", the computer will unlock the torque converter before it engages the A/C...and it will continue to do this at a fixed interval until the climate control unit is selected to either "vent" or off. There has to be some way to stop the car from doing this as this is definetly a contributing factor to the premature wear of our torque converters.

 

[stephen newberg]

There is no doubt that if you can fix the tc lock/unlock thing dealing with the AC on our cars, you will get a lot of business. I would certainly want one yesterday. But I would also want to hear that you definately have it fixed.

pax, smn

 

[Tunez]

Alberto, I was looking at your site and it appears that most of the pricing there would apply to thing for cars other than the SHO aside from the basic N/A Custom Performance chip. If I am thinking correctly, we wouldn't benefit much from a different MAF or fuel injectors so long as the car stays N/A. If I am wrong there, please correct me.

All that being said, can you give a short run down of the areas on a Gen 3 SHO that your chip would address and what changes we could expect?

Edit: I am asking this because I have been considering ditching the SHO and buying a First Gen Eclipse GTX to tinker with. I now considering keeping the SHO and just doing more to it. I now have a custom cold air intake that I may be switching to one of the K&N kits from either SHO Shop or FPS because I keep getting a CEL code. I also have the third cat cat gone replaced by a straigt through pipe and the cat back exhaust. I may drive down to FPS and get welded and keep driving this car. BTW, I also have the VAK that SHOZ123 here makes. Is that something that would work with your chip or would it need to be removed?

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[americanmotorsport.com]

Yes, if you are N/a, a larger MAF or injectors will netyou no gains, despite what you may otherwise hear.

What the chip will improve on is:

Firmer transmission shifts, removed tip in spark retard, remove spark reduction during shifts, revised shift pattern for more performance feel, faster manual downshifs,no speed limiter, higher rev limiter (on some cars I find it better to levae it stock if there is no power up there though), higher WOT shifts, optimized a/f, optimized timing, improved engine braking when at closed throttle, turn cooling fans on sooner, revises torque converter function to eliminate shudder and allow it to run cooler, and other tuning tweaks.

What code are you getting for the CEL?

What is a VAK, I am not familiar with it, at least not under that name.

 

[Ian Macoomb]

americanmotorsport.com:


What is a VAK, I am not familiar with it, at least not under that name.

VAK= vacuum accessory killer.

Basically it kills the variable assist power steering, the A/C, and the field current to the alternator under wide open throttle. Sorta like a underdrive pulley that only works when you want it to work.

As far as I know, it doesn't matter whether or not you have a VAK or a UDP. It really has no impact on the chip.

If you can get rid of the torque convertor toggling with the A/C and show some horsepower on a dyno I'd be interest. Till then I'm sceptical. We've seen a few flavours of the week, so to speak. Especially on Bob's forum (taurusSLOcarclub.com). First it was Superchips, then Diablo, then Fordchip.com, then Apten and now your company. I've yet to see positive proof that any of those chips made horsepower. $300 is a lot of money for no gain.

 

[Tunez]

Thanks Ian, I was wondering if the voltage drop during WOT would affect it but you are correct in the fact the the pullies would do the same. I also agree, I would be interested to see some dyno results as well. If they appear to show improvements, I may be game for jumping in that boat too. I am also curius to know if the gains that the chip could make could also be improved by tuning for the specific mods that we can do. In other words, can it be tuned to give better performance based on the fact that I have the exhaust, intake, and VAK?

 

[americanmotorsport.com]

The chip would optimize your mods, yes.

The "VAK" would not affect it.

Well I have a 10-day moeny back guarnatee. You don't lose anything by trying me out.

As far as Superchips (regular, not SCT) and Diablo, they cannot do what I can do. Apten is actually pretty good. I have been workin with Jerry, the founding parent of SCT and the driving force behind all of the tuning at FordChip (just the tuning) for a while now. We are good friends. I used to work for him, now I work with him on occasion. I was involved in the pre-produtiona nnd development of the SCT software.

I know what you mean in regards to "flavor of the motnh." However, I havebeen doing this for a while, and do my programming a little bit differently than everyone else. I am also one of the few with such a vast array of data on your cars and others.

However, I came in here mainly because Bob G. from TCCA asked me to and to help out/answer questions/propagate knowledge. Some of you have asked about my product, so I have responded. If I can help in any way, I wikll try.

However, if someof you are interested in my prodict, I think you'll like my programs, and with a 10-day money-back guarantee, what's to lose? You will see a lot of sriveability, tranny control and performance upgrades and overallpep. You will see some HP gains with premium (varies per individual car), but if you expect like a million HP gain from a chip then you are in the wrong game...but over all you will like your car a lot more with my programming.

I would also be willing to do a GP if one of you would want to organize it. I am currently offering one for TCCA.

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[mholhut]

americanmotorsport.com:
I can make something for all Lincolns and Mercury's also, and some limited Jaguars. If you send me your EEC code via e-mail to [email protected] I can probably make somethign for you.

You realize, of course, that the LS is not EPROM'able I'd have to send you the PCM so you could reflash it, right?

As long as you store my OEM program so that if the reflash doesn't work I can go back to normal, I'd be down with that.

I'll look for the PCM code the next chance I get and I'll email you.

FYI, Apten was just on the LS boards, promising us a working supercharger, a reflash, and a rose garden. The club president offered his car for R&D.... we haven't heard from Apten since.

Also, FWIW, McLaren couldn't get the software right either for their supercharged McLaren Lincoln LS... which was sold on ebay for $28K... the blower was in the trunk.

So, I'm really not expecting a miracle with anything you can do with the LS, but I'll give it a shot.

<small>[ February 14, 2004, 05:58 PM: Message edited by: mholhut ]</small>

 

[americanmotorsport.com]

I've had good success with even custom Twin Turbo'ed MACH 1's.

I can reflash your EEC as long as it is EEC-V, i.e. 96 plus. If it is not, I would have to send you a chip.

I think you'll be happy with my program
And yes please send me yor EEC code as soon as you can so I canstart looking into this. I'll also send you a custom program sheet via e-mail when you are ready.

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[ncmcn]

americanmotorsport.com:
...and some limited Jaguars.

How about a 2002 Jag X-Type 2.5l 5-Speed? naughty

 

[wild01ride]

I'll jump on the bandwagon of interest, but specifically, I would still like to hear a definitive answer to the question of whether or not the chip could eliminate the torque converter toggling at constant speed while the A/C compressor is operating.
Thanks!