Hi this is Marco posting in Rob's account.
I don't think any of you people posting on this message board were here at the time of the tune, so I'm not sure you should even be chiming in.
I'm sure Manuel appreciates all of your help in diagnosing a car over the internet, But if any of you were licensed Mechanics, Licensed Tuners, Qualified Machinists, with over 15 years of experience maybe you would be taken seriously.
Unfortunately without being in front of the vehicle and having a deep understanding of, Engine mechanics and Standalone ECU's you cannot even begin to speculate on the vehicle. All your assumptions on the internet do nothing but agitate Manuel who is hopelessly looking for answers in clearly all the wrong places. As a professional I would never take advice from a 'forum' unless it was coming from a professional.
The founders of AEM and all the higher ups are all close personal friends of mine and alerted me to this post because they are watching it, trust me they have complete confidence in my abilities, as do my thousands of customers worldwide who bring their vehicles to us.
Currently there are unseen mechanical issues with the car, the car is a high mileage vehicle, and may have other issues which have yet to be diagnosed, the AEM is a used unit, that may have to be sent in for inpection. One of the known issues with the car is timing drift. Timing drift is common with aftermarket ECU's and will vary from car to car with wire resistance, this car being a high mileage car, it could be suffering from these conditions and others. Timing drift can be accounted for and tuned for in the software.
For those of you that don't know what that is, it is when actual ECU timing does not correspond with actual engine timing, verified with a timing light at the crank pulley. So in Manny's case, the car is pulling timing if the ECU reads 26 degrees the actual engine timing will be less.
I'm not sure why our abilities have been questioned, especially by some forum members, maybe they should do their research. I have tuned dozens of Supercharged and Turbocharged NSX's all with great results, Rob's car has reliably made over 480hp for the past 2 years, and the motor has under 5 percent leakdwon on all cylinders. This should be a testament to our abilities. Then again WE put it together and tuned it, so we made sure to cross all of our 't's and dot all of our 'i''s. Sorry Manuel this isnt a shot at him, but he is not a mechanic, he is a hobbyist, with great enthusiasm for his cars, but sometimes just enthusiasm cannot make up for experience and knowledge. He will have to leave that job up to us, we are the professionals.
Manuel has an appointment next week, for us to look at his car, since then we instructed him to patiently wait until we can look over the whole vehicle and find the issue.
So, thank you for all of your specualtion and argument, but when you are not completely informed you just cause more problems than you are trying to solve.
Marco
I don't think any of you people posting on this message board were here at the time of the tune, so I'm not sure you should even be chiming in.
I'm sure Manuel appreciates all of your help in diagnosing a car over the internet, But if any of you were licensed Mechanics, Licensed Tuners, Qualified Machinists, with over 15 years of experience maybe you would be taken seriously.
Unfortunately without being in front of the vehicle and having a deep understanding of, Engine mechanics and Standalone ECU's you cannot even begin to speculate on the vehicle. All your assumptions on the internet do nothing but agitate Manuel who is hopelessly looking for answers in clearly all the wrong places. As a professional I would never take advice from a 'forum' unless it was coming from a professional.
The founders of AEM and all the higher ups are all close personal friends of mine and alerted me to this post because they are watching it, trust me they have complete confidence in my abilities, as do my thousands of customers worldwide who bring their vehicles to us.
Currently there are unseen mechanical issues with the car, the car is a high mileage vehicle, and may have other issues which have yet to be diagnosed, the AEM is a used unit, that may have to be sent in for inpection. One of the known issues with the car is timing drift. Timing drift is common with aftermarket ECU's and will vary from car to car with wire resistance, this car being a high mileage car, it could be suffering from these conditions and others. Timing drift can be accounted for and tuned for in the software.
For those of you that don't know what that is, it is when actual ECU timing does not correspond with actual engine timing, verified with a timing light at the crank pulley. So in Manny's case, the car is pulling timing if the ECU reads 26 degrees the actual engine timing will be less.
I'm not sure why our abilities have been questioned, especially by some forum members, maybe they should do their research. I have tuned dozens of Supercharged and Turbocharged NSX's all with great results, Rob's car has reliably made over 480hp for the past 2 years, and the motor has under 5 percent leakdwon on all cylinders. This should be a testament to our abilities. Then again WE put it together and tuned it, so we made sure to cross all of our 't's and dot all of our 'i''s. Sorry Manuel this isnt a shot at him, but he is not a mechanic, he is a hobbyist, with great enthusiasm for his cars, but sometimes just enthusiasm cannot make up for experience and knowledge. He will have to leave that job up to us, we are the professionals.
Manuel has an appointment next week, for us to look at his car, since then we instructed him to patiently wait until we can look over the whole vehicle and find the issue.
So, thank you for all of your specualtion and argument, but when you are not completely informed you just cause more problems than you are trying to solve.
Marco
