Im fairly new to the website and have done some searching but so far havent really been able to find a good answer to my question. I have HP Tuners and have been tuning my 99 silverado since I had it rebuilt, bored, heads milled and a 212/218 low lift cam installed and long tube ceramic headers, but havent been able to get as far as I would like to due to free time and im learning as I go so everything takes 3 times longer. Its fun and ive learned a ton. Ive got my truck running pretty good but i feel like its not all there yet. The truck's my daily driver so i need to get it finished ASAP. I would like to buy a mail order tune but not sure what company to go with. Any recommendations would be a big help. Thanks again.

 

NONE. Mail order tunes are a little better than a prorgrammer, but not much. wheatley is pretty good, and blackbear is ok IF and ONLY IF you do a data logging tune. I have logged a couple of trucks with nelson tunes and they were so far off it wasn't even funny. Seriously a waste of the customer's money...

Now I'm no expert tuner.. And I'll be the first to admit that I have don't know everything about tuning... But when I slap a half *** tune on a buddy's truck that's less aggressive than my nitrous tune and he starts dropping his ET by multiple tenths, I'd say the tune was the issue...

 

Wheatley can get you fixed up.. Just plan on staying up late lol

 

IMO, look for a local tuner who can do live tune for you. If not, go with Wheatley over anyone else for a mail order

 

dont need a mail order you need someone to just help you, you have HPTuners id talk with klugg i read somewhere that he has helped people that had hptuners tune there trucks.

 

the mail order tunes are good if you don't have any local tuners to get a decent baseline tune that you can build off of via data logging or driving to a tuner or something to go off of as you figure out tuning on your own...my opinion

 

I really like my Black Bear Auto Cal tune.

 

Zippy is one of the best. You can email him a file and a log, he does some kind of wierd voodoo black magic ritual, and wala! He sends you back a tune thats spot on!

 

Nelson performance aced my mail tune , shoot he even made a gm tech magazine his mail tunes were so close and even better than the competition

 

Yeah, I find it hard to believe that Nelson's tunes could be way off. He really knows his stuff.