This is a cut/paste from other forums, but I have friends in this community that I think would be interested in following my learning curve so I decided to post one here. A lot of the specifics won't make sense to those that don't have an ST and the Cobb AP3, but I'll be as clear as possible when I post data just in case you ever fall into that category in the future...
Brief intro-I'm a satisfied owner of FreekTune'd FiST/FoST's, but the other week I took the FoST on a road-trip to pick up my gf from the airport and was getting substantial (an exaggeration) knock while simply cruising on the interstate. The FiST is rock-solid in all driving conditions that I've noticed, but the FoST has always been...finicky. I realized that the only solution would be to order ATR and tune the car myself!
To clear that up, I know that I could contact Justin and have him correct my issues and he's been awesome to work with on both platforms-I simply needed a reason (however small) to do something to re-engage my interest in the cars. I stay at a perpetual state of unhappiness with every car I own unless I'm relatively active doing something to it. I've always left tuning to the experts simply because I was intimidated by it, but after datalogging and datamining for the last six months my comfort level has grown substantially. Now that my comfort level has grown in collecting/analyzing data, I simply felt that the next logical decision was to order ATR and see if this was something I was actually interested in and/or possibly could even be decent at.
Tl;dr-It's cheaper for me to buy ATR and tinker on the cars a while longer than it is to have Justin address my issues in a faster manner and then ultimately trade my car off for something else to do new bolt-on modifications to (because that has been the 'max' level of my abilities to this point).
In the most abbreviated way possible, I loaded the Cobb Stage 3 OTS v312 tune as my base and ultimately found that the problems I was having were in the borderline tables of 6 and 7 between .4 and 1.0 load, between 2000 and 2500 rpm. It took me more logs than I would care to admit to find and address the issue efficiently, but again-it's a learning curve and a way for me to establish learning 'the process' in the future. I'll comb my data and turn it into a presentable format to post it here so that others can look at it and criticize/analyze, and I'll be spending some time reading other members' threads to try and get a better grasp of what I'm doing and where I'm going. In short, I found the problem and fixed it so now it's just about learning.
This thread won't be about getting maximum power (at least, initially)-it will be more about me learning what is going on through reading, trial-and-error, observation, advice, etc. So far it's been relatively painful (literally) in trying to get up to speed to get where I'm at right now (which, admittedly, isn't very far), but now that I've fixed my only complaint I can throttle-down and go about it in a more manageable and thorough manner. Expect many more parenthesis in the future.
Brief intro-I'm a satisfied owner of FreekTune'd FiST/FoST's, but the other week I took the FoST on a road-trip to pick up my gf from the airport and was getting substantial (an exaggeration) knock while simply cruising on the interstate. The FiST is rock-solid in all driving conditions that I've noticed, but the FoST has always been...finicky. I realized that the only solution would be to order ATR and tune the car myself!
To clear that up, I know that I could contact Justin and have him correct my issues and he's been awesome to work with on both platforms-I simply needed a reason (however small) to do something to re-engage my interest in the cars. I stay at a perpetual state of unhappiness with every car I own unless I'm relatively active doing something to it. I've always left tuning to the experts simply because I was intimidated by it, but after datalogging and datamining for the last six months my comfort level has grown substantially. Now that my comfort level has grown in collecting/analyzing data, I simply felt that the next logical decision was to order ATR and see if this was something I was actually interested in and/or possibly could even be decent at.
Tl;dr-It's cheaper for me to buy ATR and tinker on the cars a while longer than it is to have Justin address my issues in a faster manner and then ultimately trade my car off for something else to do new bolt-on modifications to (because that has been the 'max' level of my abilities to this point).
In the most abbreviated way possible, I loaded the Cobb Stage 3 OTS v312 tune as my base and ultimately found that the problems I was having were in the borderline tables of 6 and 7 between .4 and 1.0 load, between 2000 and 2500 rpm. It took me more logs than I would care to admit to find and address the issue efficiently, but again-it's a learning curve and a way for me to establish learning 'the process' in the future. I'll comb my data and turn it into a presentable format to post it here so that others can look at it and criticize/analyze, and I'll be spending some time reading other members' threads to try and get a better grasp of what I'm doing and where I'm going. In short, I found the problem and fixed it so now it's just about learning.
This thread won't be about getting maximum power (at least, initially)-it will be more about me learning what is going on through reading, trial-and-error, observation, advice, etc. So far it's been relatively painful (literally) in trying to get up to speed to get where I'm at right now (which, admittedly, isn't very far), but now that I've fixed my only complaint I can throttle-down and go about it in a more manageable and thorough manner. Expect many more parenthesis in the future.
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