Tuning For a Dummy

[tysonren]

I'm new to this, and coming from trucks so this is all a little confusing. I've searched the forums and read up lots about performance gains and prefered tuning options. I am just a bit more curious about the basics for someone who is completely ignorant to this.

Are these tuners hard wired under the hood?
Are all drive modes affected?
Are they all "canned" tunes or do you need a dyno tune?

In my truck it was just and OBD tuner you plug in, pick your tune, upload it and go. And there's canned or custom tunes based on mods.

If there's a post in missing that answers my questions, please point me in the right direction.

 

[ecko04]

Welcome! There’s a wealth of information in the stickies about tuning, which would answer all of your questions.

 

[ZyroXZ2]

I'm new to this, and coming from trucks so this is all a little confusing. I've searched the forums and read up lots about performance gains and prefered tuning options. I am just a bit more curious about the basics for someone who is completely ignorant to this.

Are these tuners hard wired under the hood?
Are all drive modes affected?
Are they all "canned" tunes or do you need a dyno tune?

In my truck it was just and OBD tuner you plug in, pick your tune, upload it and go. And there's canned or custom tunes based on mods.

If there's a post in missing that answers my questions, please point me in the right direction.

To be a little more specific and save you a few searches: because the Stinger (and the engine) are overall less popular and less common on the market, there aren't any chip tunes like other more popular platforms have where you plug in, pick a tune, and load it. Instead, the Stinger has more focused solutions: LAP3, JB4, Racechip, etc. Each one offers various modes/maps based on your achievable octane, and is wired into various sensors under the hood.

There are a handful of actual ECU tunes, which are "canned" tunes in which you send in your ECU/TCU to get it flashed.

Lastly, dyno tuning is a whole separate ballgame entirely. If you're thinking of "plug and play" options, dyno tuning has nothing to do with any of this. You would take the car someplace that can tune your vehicle, and they throw it on a dyno, and start working on the maps based on the data they get from continuous runs. Of course, custom dyno tuning can often result in the most power or sometimes the safest, but it's also by far the most costly.

 

[tysonren]

Thank you so much!
I was just a little overwhelmed because I've never really customized or tuned a vehicle before and it was so much different from what I was aware of coming from the truck world.