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    hi. i have a turbo miata and the greddy emanage blue for my car... i am trying to find a good shop that will tune my car for me... ive checked out mainstream and batlground a couple of weeks ago and both said they can do it... my main thing is that i want a shop that knows how to work on the emanage blue and who will do a really good job... any opinions? i will go check out topspeed also to see whassup... well, thanks for the help guys!

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    Quote Originally Posted by myfonti
    hi. i have a turbo miata and the greddy emanage blue for my car... i am trying to find a good shop that will tune my car for me... ive checked out mainstream and batlground a couple of weeks ago and both said they can do it... my main thing is that i want a shop that knows how to work on the emanage blue and who will do a really good job... any opinions? i will go check out topspeed also to see whassup... well, thanks for the help guys!
    greddy emanage is relatively easy to work with, it's not like it's Motec or any coding involved and any of those shops you mentioned can do it....and both alreaady said they can.

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    RSPEED for any regular maintenance stuff.... Mainstream did 2 of my friends turbo miatas... they did a good job on their cars and would highly reccomend them.

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    whoa... that makes me lean towards mspi more than batlground... i felt a better vib3 from mspi than i did from batlground... but maybe cause batlground was busy that day... only thing thats keeping my options open with batlground is that tracy was bragging that dan is 1 b@d@$$ tuner... well, keep the opinions coming! btw, im not going to that other shop anymore...

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    Quote Originally Posted by myfonti
    whoa... that makes me lean towards mspi more than batlground... i felt a better vib3 from mspi than i did from batlground... but maybe cause batlground was busy that day... only thing thats keeping my options open with batlground is that tracy was bragging that dan is 1 b@d@$$ tuner... well, keep the opinions coming! btw, im not going to that other shop anymore...
    eh, batlground is alright...i mean, non sponsored supra basically built by himself running 8's...i'd have to agree with tracy

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    Quote Originally Posted by myfonti
    whoa... that makes me lean towards mspi more than batlground... i felt a better vib3 from mspi than i did from batlground... but maybe cause batlground was busy that day... only thing thats keeping my options open with batlground is that tracy was bragging that dan is 1 b@d@$$ tuner... well, keep the opinions coming! btw, im not going to that other shop anymore...
    Yea, you need to call a few days in advance if you want an appointment....poor planner
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    yeah, thats what got me thinking... i really want to tune once and get it over with... so yeah... anyone else with experience from these shops?

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    Dan is an awesome tuner, he has done a few of my cars now and a turbo miata is nothing new for him and neither is the Greddy Emanage. I've done business with a lot of shops and Dan is the only one I trust to tune my cars.

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    thanks for the insight! i guess i have to schedule an appointment to talk to him since they are "always busy"

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    Thats the thing about good tuners, they are always busy.
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    we have an R package that makes 290whp, with the Link , and we have tuned alot of other miatas.

    Emanage is no problem, its very simple.

    MSPi, Batlground, either one of us can take care of it
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    Hey Mr. Kidd... ill be heading up yalls way very soon to start on my motor work! Since I have an R..... I wana be where that R package is, damnit. Wouldnt happen to be Dustins would it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fawk_you
    Hey Mr. Kidd... ill be heading up yalls way very soon to start on my motor work! Since I have an R..... I wana be where that R package is, damnit. Wouldnt happen to be Dustins would it?
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    Im sorry but i think ED at BAlanced Performance will blow any tuner in the southeast out the water!! I have seen too many cars blown up by other tuners lately in GA!!
    And ive heared alot of tuners overcharging people, Ed tuned my car in 20 mins and 4 hard pulls the car was fully tuned!


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    Quote Originally Posted by B18c1Turboed
    Im sorry but i think ED at BAlanced Performance will blow any tuner in the southeast out the water!! I have seen too many cars blown up by other tuners lately in GA!!
    And ive heared alot of tuners overcharging people, Ed tuned my car in 20 mins and 4 hard pulls the car was fully tuned!


    what were your numbers? 100whp?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD


    what were your numbers? 100whp?
    Nope alot more, sorry i cant disclose the actual numbers!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by B18c1Turboed
    Im sorry but i think ED at BAlanced Performance will blow any tuner in the southeast out the water!! I have seen too many cars blown up by other tuners lately in GA!!
    And ive heared alot of tuners overcharging people, Ed tuned my car in 20 mins and 4 hard pulls the car was fully tuned!
    Why don't you just shut the fuck up and save us all the headache. Everytime I see youre name I"m like "fuck here comes another worthless fucking post". If Ed tuned youre car in 4 pulls then it isn't tuned good enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Baller
    Why don't you just shut the fuck up and save us all the headache. Everytime I see youre name I"m like "fuck here comes another worthless fucking post". If Ed tuned youre car in 4 pulls then it isn't tuned good enough.
    And its funny your the same way, eveytime you try to go behind me and discredit me, Man you can blow you know who.. Im sorry a shop take 4 or 5 hours to tune your car, but the tune was perfect i even drove the car on the stree idle was perfect and all.. I have more than enough people who can verify how long it took too tune the car.

    Mike why dont you call Greg he was there!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by B18c1Turboed
    Im sorry but i think ED at BAlanced Performance will blow any tuner in the southeast out the water!! I have seen too many cars blown up by other tuners lately in GA!!
    And ive heared alot of tuners overcharging people, Ed tuned my car in 20 mins and 4 hard pulls the car was fully tuned!
    Making minor adjustments & cleaning it up is COMPLETELY differant than a fresh tune start to finish. When Raceworks was running Hondata it would take Ed 4+ pulls do do an N/A....and he was even charging a flat rate. Been there several times the night before a race tweaking a car or two.

    Under normal circumstances and starting with a fresh map it will take quite a while to test & tune properly...the shops mentioned so far are not out to steal or rob you of your money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
    yes maam

    see you soon
    Thoguht it was only sitting at 270... isnt he selling it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fawk_you
    Thoguht it was only sitting at 270... isnt he selling it?
    he decided to keep it, it made 290whp, then we stepped it down to a smaller turbo
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
    he decided to keep it, it made 290whp, then we stepped it down to a smaller turbo
    Oh ok, last time I saw him and Bran. he mentioned selling it. If you dont mind me asking, what was the numbers he put down with the smaller turbo? T25 or what?

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    you he tuned your car from START to finish, in 4 pulls an 20minutes?

    from scratch?

    BULLSHIT, if he started off an old TUNED map, and you changed something like, the exhaust, maybe.

    but from start to finish, no way. your not telling the entire story danny. i dont think your qualified to know how long it takes to tune a car that makes over 400-500whp (which im guessing your car prob makes).

    2-3 hours minimum on a race gas honda
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
    you he tuned your car from START to finish, in 4 pulls an 20minutes?

    from scratch?

    BULLSHIT, if he started off an old TUNED map, and you changed something like, the exhaust, maybe.

    but from start to finish, no way. your not telling the entire story danny. i dont think your qualified to know how long it takes to tune a car that makes over 400-500whp (which im guessing your car prob makes).

    2-3 hours minimum on a race gas honda

    I will give that too you MIke i was on a Basemap and he cleaned it up, did 4 hard pulls and was done. The air fuel was perfect. But i know on all are cars tuned on pump gas then race gas we are always done within 2 hours, thats with the car having no problems,which we rarley do..

    The key to get a good tune and spending less money is making sure the car is ready to get tuned, and not ahving to fix stuff halfway thru the tune.


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    Ed uses some of our old maps that are close to our new setups and go from there. It does literally take him an hour tops for our cars.

    Peter's gold hatch took 1.5 hours with WOT and full drivability.

    But everyone's engine runs differently...he's always tuned our cars fast with good results.


    oh and it did take Ed like 30 minutes or so on Danny's car. but it was all WOT pulls....

    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
    you he tuned your car from START to finish, in 4 pulls an 20minutes?

    from scratch?

    BULLSHIT, if he started off an old TUNED map, and you changed something like, the exhaust, maybe.

    but from start to finish, no way. your not telling the entire story danny. i dont think your qualified to know how long it takes to tune a car that makes over 400-500whp (which im guessing your car prob makes).

    2-3 hours minimum on a race gas honda
    Last edited by 93H22ACX; 01-19-2007 at 12:56 PM.
    94 Supra= 500rwhp

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    and most people want driveability, and you cant do that in 20 min, i dont care how fucking good you are
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    ok well then now i beleive you, if you already had a tuned map with minor adjustments i can see that.

    We prob just do things differently. I cant tune a car in 2 hours to 30psi. sorry, i wont. im a little more carefull with that.

    and no offense, you know i have NOTHING against ed, but this season you did experience some motor failures. so did we
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
    ok well then now i beleive you, if you already had a tuned map with minor adjustments i can see that.

    We prob just do things differently. I cant tune a car in 2 hours to 30psi. sorry, i wont. im a little more carefull with that.

    and no offense, you know i have NOTHING against ed, but this season you did experience some motor failures. so did we
    Agreed.

    And i didnt personally have any motor problems.Just turbo from suckingg up the ground cable, and Peter for over reving his motor. Its all Good!!!

    No offense to no tuners i just recommened Ed to anyone,he is a hell of a tuner, he tunes the world cup cars and road atalnta cars.And a few other well known cars,if these people trust them with such expensive cars then i do too!!!


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    Mainstream or Batlground have good reps on these matters

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    Quote Originally Posted by admin
    you got a miata maybe this will help ya out and this ride was featured over 2 years ago \/

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    Hmm what does the cost of a full tune up cost ?

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    Ed @ balanced!!! He's got a reputation of QUALITY tuning. He tunes full out SCCA race cars. He flys all across the WORLD to tune for customers.

    As T.I. said as he recieved his award at the BET Awards-"YA CAN HATE IF YA WANNA!!" But he's PROVEN!!. No one I mean NO ONE on the East Coast has tuned more cars than him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLK JDM
    No one I mean NO ONE on the East Coast has tuned more cars than him.
    Man, Jeff Evans must not be busy at all anymore
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
    Man, Jeff Evans must not be busy at all anymore

    Do you really think Jeff has tuned more than Ed?? Look how long Ed's been tuning.

    Not that it says anything about him as a tuner but Ed was 1 of the 1st 100 people to have hondata software when it was introduced. Ed's been tuning since he was in college at GA Tech!!!

    Like I said-You can hate if you wanna!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BLK JDM

    Like I said-You can hate if you wanna!!
    Well im willing tp put money down that we tune more hondas in the last year than Ed, or any shop in GA for that matter.

    Ed isnt doing 5-6 cars a week, sorry, i know people at balanced. My GF actually gets alot of her work done up there on her Race ITR. so dont think im "hating" when i know jason.

    Ed is a good tuner, and you cant go wrong with him, but saying hes the best, an no one is close, sorry, that aint true.

    saying he tunes more cars than anyone on the east coast, sorry, that aint true either.

    lets not spread misinformation, you guys stated why you liked ED, theres nothing wrong with that and i support that, but leave it at that.
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    Ed doesn't "work" at Balanced, BTW. He just uses their dyno becuase it's across the street from his real job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tracy
    Ed doesn't "work" at Balanced, BTW. He just uses their dyno becuase it's across the street from his real job.

    You are correct-Ed does not work at Balanced. He uses their facility b/c of convenience. That's a perk about Ed-he'll go where ever you want. Just e-mail him you won't be dissapointed.

    Oh and Sunbelt is no longer across the street from Balanced. They were bought over and moved to a new larger, state of the art complex. That shit is pimp!!!
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