I had a conversation with a friend I've known here for probably 14 or 15 years and he gave me some information that certainly irritated me about a person of whom I have not thought highly of for quite a few years (RIGHTFULLY!) and used to frequent here to tune cars, but has since dropped off the forum (and maybe SHO's altogether?). This person called up referenced tuner for tuning support and was immediately greeted with talking shit on me. He then followed on how he had to "fix a few" of my tunes. I will gladly call this out, plain and simple.... I have literally only tuned 5 SHO's to this day and I can name them all and in order:
1.
My SHO - tuned NA, then boosted, then converted to E85. Still runs and still on my tune.
2
SHOSIG - borrowed a TwEECer in 2004 and the TwEECer had been removed before selling because it belonged to another friend.
3.
strings1732 - Remote turbo SHO... He probably hasn't driven the car in 10 years
4.
zach44102 - Where to start... Fastest NA time, fastest N2O time, fastest turbo SHO, & fastest SHO time of all generations... #brotuned
5.
One_Shot - Waited over a year to get tuned Adam @ Pops and that didn't happen... Blah, blah... Highest power stock long block SHO I've seen.
I also played with my 92 beater SHO with my TwEECer on the dyno and sent 1 or 2 people base tunes so they could start their cars.
If Adam @ Pops can please tell me which of these cars he fixed, I am all ears. Also, at the time the above conversation was had, I had tuned 3 SHO's.
In my 14-15 years of tuning (which is a hobby), which on the Subaru side is a lot, I have yet to blow a motor, ever. Will it happen? Yep... But you didn't fix shit of mine. Also, your NA tuned SHO's are not outrunning any boosted SHO I've tuned, period. My best NA SHO ran a ******* 12.3.
My first dealing with him was him remoting into my laptop to install his strategy and talk about BE, which wasn't needed... However, during that conversation, knowing I had done tuning on these cars, he offered up a second strategy for testing, which I did not ask for or take. Fast forward to me upgrading my laptop and wanting to get it up and running with the tuning software, I asked him for a key to install it. He became pissy and accused me of trying to steal from him (again, he already offered up a second strategy prior to this). From that conversation, I contacted the friend of which I sold the old laptop to (which I imaged first), got the laptop from him, installed BE and the strategy, then uninstalled to get the uninstall key to provide him. After this, he was still accusing me of trying to steal from him of which he called me out on eectuning.org. Once I responded with some sense, the thread was removed.
During the times I dealt with him, he liked to brag about tuning 400+whp SHO's, 15 PSI SHO's, etc... But I had already done that years prior, so I wasn't impressed nor gave a shit... I just wanted my software.
On the flip side, Clint at BE was easy to deal with and would work with again.
