After a year of fighting with two bad fuel pressure regulators, a turbo rebuild, finding some time to wrench, booking some of Marco's time, etc. I finally got the car retuned.

Its not like I need to say it, but Marco knows these cars in and out. Within an hour and a handful of pulls, the AEM was tuned for idle, part throttle, and WOT. My best run netted me 425awhp with 340ft.lbs. of torque at 25psi on pump at 11.5:1. The car is running an internally gated FP green, which makes it an amazing street car without the heat magnet wastegate or heavy lag. It's a 500+hp car you can daily drive, which is exactly what I was looking for.

My advice, unless you're like a handfull of the guys on this forum that can REALLY tune, take it to Marco. We often spend a lot to buy parts to gain a few horses, but we haven't extracted the performance of the parts we already have on the car.

How much did he charge? I you don't mind me asking. Or did you get a better price for one reason or another.

Oh but yeah congrats, nice #'s

Personally, I would go to one of those "handful" of guys, and not have to kiss ass to get service....but that's just me....

Okay.

nice numbers man, marco's great though.. he knows exactly what hes talking about and he gets the job done right!

are u running 7 bolt? Stock internals?

Magnus, just like any other tuner, charges based on what tuning work needs to be done. If you have a brand new setup with an AEM and it doesn't run, it's going to cost you much more then getting them to dial in your already established setup. The advantage of getting the car tuned by Marco is that he can do it quickly, so your dyno time is minimized. Tuning can range from a couple hundred including dyno time, to nearly a thousand, again, depending on how complicated the setup, and how dialed-in it is before you bring it. My tune wasn't too expensive, as Marco had already established most of it last year.

Alex, I'm running a 6-bolt, 2G pistons on 1G rods.

Congrats Michael, great numbers!

Very good numbers Michael. Working my way towards 300whp on 7bolt ECM Link 14b

Marco is the shait when it comes down to tuning, and that is it for dsm's.

But you can always take your chances with someone else, Spike only goes to Magnus Mototorsport. At least it used to He he.


-Manuel