Jfuzzyman

yes I bought all the aftermarket parts from American muscle, and they sent me a tune for the parts through email and when I installed the tune to my car, my car wouldn’t even start and idle!! So I removed the tune they send me and the car would at least idle and drive( didn’t idle that good) but I was at least able to drive it to the tuner and get it tuned properly. So I basically wasted 450$ on the bama tuner I bought from them

m05fastbackGT

Did you contact AM/Bama's tuning department to inform them about the start and idle issues you had with the tune? If you did, they should had sent you a tune revision adjustment via e-mail to correct the idle/start issues. I wouldn't necessarily say that you wasted $450.00 on the Bama tuner itself, as you would've been required to purchase a tuning device anyhow, regardless of which tuning shop does your tuning..

But in the end, you made the right choice by having a local tuning shop custom tune your car on the dyno and have it tuned properly. Hopefully, you didn't have to purchase another tuning device from your local tuning shop, as they should be able to upload their custom tuning files into any SCT X4 tuning device and up..

Bert

yeah I was thinking the same thing -- hope the local tuner was able to use your SCT device

in any case, I assume you still have that device, and that is important because it has your factory tune on it, in case you ever need to go back to the factory tune in the future

Jfuzzyman

Yep, in the end it all worked out good. I’m using the car as a daily driver and drive it to work and everything. I was just freaking out about all that tuning nonsense in the beginning😂

m05fastbackGT

Exactly! once the vehicle is flashed with the programmer, it's married to that vehicle.. Not only is that device needed if you ever need to go back to the factory tune in the future, but it also cannot be used on a different vehicle while it has the factory tune of the primary vehicle uploaded into the device..

So did you have to purchase another tuning device or was your local custom tuner able to upload your new tunes into your Bama/SCT tuning device?

Jfuzzyman

Yea the tuner was able to use my BAMA tuner I had already bought. I didn’t have to buy another device or anything.

Bert

that's good -- the money spent on the tuner was not really a total loss . . . all you really lost was the "free" Bama tunes

m05fastbackGT

Yea, I also didn't think you would need to buy another tuning device either because the SCT X3, X4 programmers are also tuning devices that are fully compatible with accepting custom tuning files, in addition with retaining SCT preloaded tuning files.

The OP might still have his free Bama tunes as well.. IIRC, the SCT X-3 and X-4 programmers can also store up to 10-12 custom tuning files in addition to the SCT preloaded tunes or whichever the proprietary vendor the SCT tuning device was purchased from.