Considering bringing your car to Balanced Performance? Look elsewhere.

[revsk8erdude]

i had my car tuned at balanced and i am EXTREMELY pleased with the work. it was done by Chris Anderson. i dont know the jason fellow you were referring to, but when Chris did mine, he was very professional and did a bang up job. no regrets, no problems down the road, no issues.. nothing but good things to say.

[Dmn2258]

i had my car tuned at balanced and i am EXTREMELY pleased with the work. it was done by Chris Anderson. i dont know the jason fellow you were referring to, but when Chris did mine, he was very professional and did a bang up job. no regrets, no problems down the road, no issues.. nothing but good things to say.

I'm glad you had a good experience. Jason is the owner. I'm not going to say who tuned my car because I understand that mistakes do happen and I don't want anyone losing their job over this.

[RandomGuy]

i had my car tuned at balanced and i am EXTREMELY pleased with the work. it was done by Chris Anderson. i dont know the jason fellow you were referring to, but when Chris did mine, he was very professional and did a bang up job. no regrets, no problems down the road, no issues.. nothing but good things to say.

I've seen a lot of Ed's work (mainly DSM's) and he's one of the better tuners in Atlanta. On top of that, he's pretty good with Megasquirt which isn't too common in ATL. Another person in ATL who's pretty good is Scott Siegel who was at Subaru of Gwinnett.

After spending $800+ for inferior work, I am fed up and bringing my car elseware (probably mainstream or topspeed). I understand that Ed may be a busy man since he is supposively a great tuner, but that doesn't mean the quality of work/tuning should be sacrificed. I also ended up fixing the wideband issue myself since I didn't feel like driving an hour back there anyways.

(TurboDave and Scotty both tuned my megasquirt car at Mainstream Performance and it was awesome)

If the tune was good and the work was flawless then I wouldn't be bitching as much. I was very excited to have my car back on the road, but noticed that after the tune my car still bogged down quite a bit and the tune seemed way too rich. My GM IAT sensor was apparently not working from the beginning (stuck on 70 degrees) and I would have thought they would notice that, considering they took their sweet time tuning my car. I had to remind the tuner to sync the carbs as well when I noticed my engine was quite shaky during the tune (that seemed to help a little bit).

If your IAT reading is off that can mess up your tune. Unless you paid extra for diagnostics and troubleshooting, why should they have to hunt down issues outside of a tune? You bring a running car in for a tune and they tune it as-is.

Did you spend 950 or 800? You did say there was a $150 strap down fee and also a wideband o2 sensor labor charge- what was that? Does that mean the labor on the tune was ~500?

Last note, you mentioned it's a miata. You should really hit up DIYAutoTune. There are a lot of local miata's that run megasquirt. The user base is awesome and I'm sure there's someone with a similar setup who has a map somewhere. DIYAutoTune is ALWAYS swamped with big stuff and orders, but I'd see if they'd have any time to tune your car. I'm sure two hours of their time would be superior to anything else, given they're on the top of their game in Megasquirt, Miatas, and Megasquirt Miatas.

Side note I know John from Garage Zero can do a quick megasquirt street tune that's awesome.