AP1Chief Etune Review
I got my AP2 with I/HFC/E tuned by Josh this past week, and overall the results are pretty good. Car is much much smoother. As many has stated before; the vtec kick is gone and replaced by more usable power lower down.
Overall experience was good, he was fast to respond to questions; and also fast in sending calibrations for me to load. Only hiccup that I had was the first basemap he sent me was for a USDM s2k whereby mine is a JDM s2k; understandable as JDM s2k's are probably pretty sparse in his clientele; no harm done as we rectified this before loading it onto the car.
The tuning process was pretty quick. In total 1 basemap 3 revisions and 4-5 WOT runs. If you are in the correct timezone and whatnot you can probably get it done in a few hours. I was a bit surprised that it was done so fast as I thought there would be more runs needed for Ignition Timing. But seeing how he has done this for so long and tuned so many s2000s that he already has a plethora of maps to go by and already know the diminishing returns vs risks of harming the engines.
Josh was very knowledgeable. One of the revisions gave me a Check engine light, once he saw my message he was able to rectify within half an hour (given the time was for me to get to my car and connect everything for him to do)
In the end the results speak for themselves and the car drives and feels a lot better than before the tune.
If you are in the market for an E-tune I would recommend giving AP1chief a PM as many before me have recommended as well.
Overall experience was good, he was fast to respond to questions; and also fast in sending calibrations for me to load. Only hiccup that I had was the first basemap he sent me was for a USDM s2k whereby mine is a JDM s2k; understandable as JDM s2k's are probably pretty sparse in his clientele; no harm done as we rectified this before loading it onto the car.
The tuning process was pretty quick. In total 1 basemap 3 revisions and 4-5 WOT runs. If you are in the correct timezone and whatnot you can probably get it done in a few hours. I was a bit surprised that it was done so fast as I thought there would be more runs needed for Ignition Timing. But seeing how he has done this for so long and tuned so many s2000s that he already has a plethora of maps to go by and already know the diminishing returns vs risks of harming the engines.
Josh was very knowledgeable. One of the revisions gave me a Check engine light, once he saw my message he was able to rectify within half an hour (given the time was for me to get to my car and connect everything for him to do)
In the end the results speak for themselves and the car drives and feels a lot better than before the tune.
If you are in the market for an E-tune I would recommend giving AP1chief a PM as many before me have recommended as well.
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