Dang it! I wish our gallery was working. I would post the pics of one of the BMW race car he tuned. I ain't going to jump on your case. I just want you to be a little but more open minded and selective with your words. Know something for a FACT personally before you try to steer a potential customer away from ones business. I know that you know that forums don't = life. I actually just found out last weekend that one of the guys cars that Dan tuned (Viper club TT Viper) claims that he did the tuning himself. I've also been in a parking lot when someone was claiming that Dan blew up their car to a whole audience of people listening...not knowing who I was when they said it right in front of me. Once I questioned him about it and what kind of car, etc., it turned out that Knowledge Performance actually tuned it and he was just like "Batlground, Knowledge, whatever!" I mentioned these 2 separate issues as an example of how things go down sometimes.
I would also like to say that sometimes, no news is better news than bad news. Sometimes you never hear the good. People tend to post or speak when they have had a complaint. That's just general human nature. That's not to say that people don't speak about good news. Sometimes the person spreading the bad news has a vendetta. This is ALL GENERALLY speaking. Also, OLD rich folks don't get on forums for the most part. We have TONS of old rich dudes that come to the shop and have NEVER been on a forum. Just something to think about.
Another tiny example of how things go down. When Dan built my Evo, everyone couldn't believe the numbers. Some even said he photoshopped the dyno chart or had to be using nitrous. This went on for a few years. Everytime he upped the anty, people said it was impossible. That is until we took it to the track and whooped on everyone with it. Now those numbers are standard for Evo's...but they weren't when they first came out. He is pretty innovative and approaches car building and tuning from a different angle than most. He puts his engineering degree from GA Tech to pretty good use.
No one can control what system a customer wants to run, flash, piggy back or stand alone. He tunes whatever they bring him hunShame someone had to go stand alone to make such basic numbers on an E36. Modified stock ECU + C16 + Bone stock 325is with 9:5:1 will make 500whp with the "right" tune. I.M.O you'll get laughed right off the a BMW board if your working with a standalone and not making over 600whp on pump gas.They don't "build" every car that gets tuned. Thanks to the internet and FORUMS, everyone thinks they know it all
and sometimes they choose their own components. Just sayin.
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