hey guys and gals, im installing my hooker long tubes tomorrow and have a bunch of questions about tuning.

i dont have a tune with the long tubes included on my SCT and need help in figuring out what to do after they are put in since im afraid the car is going to run lean. i dont want my a/f ratio getting messed up bad and hurt the car so what do i do?

will the car get messed up from driving it without a tune? should i try unplugging the battery?

im not going to be able to get on the dyno prob for a couple days to get a custom tune and i drive the car daily with prob over an hour and a half of highway use a day.

am i going to be able to go WOT or atleast keep up with speeds on the highway?


im sorry for all the questions im a young kid and have never done this much modding and serious work on a car before so i want to be safe and dont ruin anything. they go in tomorrow night so quick help is seriously appreciated.

thanks
-mike

 

IMO, if you keep all four O2 sensors plugged in you should be OK (unless you already have the rears turned off in your tune for the O/R pipe, then just the front two will be fine).

 

i actually have the check engine light on now because i dont have them shut off, is there a way i can shut them off?

the tune is only for the CAI, it was my first mod

thanks don
-mike

 

bump
-mike

 

Whoever did your tune for you can shut them off. Hopefully you used Doug... he could e-mail you a revised tune. If not, then oh well.

 

+1 to don_w's response

 

Doug is the tuner for the 05+ crowd.