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you have to organize it and get it done. I've narrowed it down to a fairly straightforward procedure: 1) Call Greg and see when they are available... figure out a couple of dates. Price out WestJet for flights, they have direct from LAX to Canada. 2) Make the rounds of the local dyno shops... find one that has a Dynojet, preferably model 224X as this is what Specialty uses and can bring their cables & modules. Also find one that is cool with letting an outside tuner use their shop and will help out over the weekend. I managed to swing a pretty discounted hourly rate, find that out so you can calculate total dyno costs. 3) Hotel/place to stay... near the dyno shop if possible, in case you have to run back and forth during the weekend... it WILL happen. 4) Location for VP race fuel. Make sure to have enough on hand before the weekend when they will no doubt be closed. Costs will be split with those tuning for it. 5) Add up all the costs to fly them up, rent the dyno (I figure 3X8 hour days), hotel, food, and extras and come up with a number. This is your base number to divide up among participants for a deposit. The deposits will be non-refundable a couple of weeks before the weekend. This will ensure that the event gets paid for and those who are serious will commit. If someone has to back out, they lose the deposit after that time and will have to get someone to take their spot. Book no more than 5 cars in a day... there WILL be issues and you WILL run late. Book an extra day rather than try to ram 10 cars through... you will not be saving money or time. Be prepared to do a lot of running around and lose a lot of sleep. Make sure your car is mechanically sound. Make sure your participants know this as well... drill it into them. Greg has put together a pretty good e-mail that outlines the procedure as well:
The way group tunes work is that someone is passionate enough to coordinate.
We will come out if someone puts it all together.
What we require
Seb and I tune as a team.
We require the group cover our plane fare and lodging. We typically stay at a Hotel, but have stayed at peoples homes and we are fine with that if someone has room that is close to the dyno.
Ask around in the group to see if anyone has frequent flyer miles they want to use, this can bring down the groups cost, and maybe the group can pay that persons dyno time for the use of the air miles.
We require at least 8 cars.
The group needs to find a dyno to rent and cover that cost. The dyno shop needs to be flexible to let us work late if problem cars require extra time. The people that require more time on the dyno should pay more for dyno time, but that should be worked out by the group. Some shops charge a reduced daily rate, others by the hour.
The group rate for 2013 will be a flat $450 per car for a tune on one fuel, if people want extra fuel tunes or water/meth tunes, each additional tune is $150 extra. We bring what is needed to remove the fuel, the customer just needs to bring the fuels they want to use and a gas can for us to drain the previous tunes fuel into.
Cam Tuning is additional- If anyone wants cams tuned, they need to show up with the covers removed, tuning intake cams runs $100, tuning exhaust cams runs $200
If the cars are really ready, we can perform about 5 straight tunes in a day and some could have additional fuel tunes. If you have people wanting cam tuning performed, figure cars with cam tuning will require the time of 2 cars, so we will get less cars out if cam tuning. For example: Day 1 has 5 cars with basic tuning and maybe 2 are doing additional fuel tunes. Day 2 has a car doing cam tuning, so only 4 cars that day.
If you have more cars wanting tuning than we can complete in 2 days, we are fine with extending our stay to accommodate.
We ask that the cars be ready to tune and not limping to the dyno. We understand some will need extra help, we have been fortunate enough on all the trips we have done to get the problem cars figured out. If we have a problem car, we diagnose it and try to get the group to pitch in to help fix the car while we dyno the rest of the group. We are willing to pitch in and work late to help the folks that are down on there luck to a point. We suggest anyone that has drilled injectors change them out before we come. If anyone has DW or JECS injectors, I suggest they call us so we can educate them.
Once a group is put together, we can offer a check list for people to check over before they come to the dyno.
The above applies to our standard tuning for 1990- 1994 300ZX twin turbos, if the customer has a 1995 they will need a early ECU or a Nistune board for us to tune it, the early ECU does plug directly in. We can tune a 1995 with a Nistune board installed, but the software is not as good and I recommend running the Early ECU. The 1996 we can not tune without a earlier harness and earlier ECU installed.
We typically use our ECU for tuning that has a emulator and a J&S knock system, after we are done, we burn the customer a custom program to a chip. So the customer only needs a socketed ECU for us to perform custom tunes. The customer does not need any extra hardware or software. If the customer has a Nistune board, we can send the file to the Nistune board when we are done.
We also offer a multiple MAP switcher that can hold as many as 16 programs, the hardware runs $350 installed. This can be for extra fuel tunes, Meth, N20, Valet, No start, ect.....
We can perform the tunes and save the files, so the switcher can be added at a later date. If a person wants extra tunes and does not want to buy a switcher, we can offer chips for each program. (The chips are free, only the extra tuning or switcher set up adds to the cost) We would not install a switcher at the dyno, the customers can send in their ECU before we come or after the dyno session they can be sent in for modification.
We prefer to work with a dynojet because we know what the cars should do on a dynojet as we have lots of dynojet data. We also have lots of dynojet tools we bring that most shops do not buy. We always read Boost, A/F, and Fuel pressure. We bring our own wideband equipment as most dyno shops do not have good equipment and they do not keep up the equipment.
For this type of work the equipment is huge to offer good results.
If people have standalones, we can tune them, but it requires extra time and the cost would be more and would depend on the time needed. Anyone wanting a stand alone tune needs to call us. Stand alone sets typically require at least a full day to tune. So we would not do this on the group tune weekend, but could come in early or leave later and perform the tune during the week.
We also do 350 and 370 tunes, they would have the same tuning fees as the Z32 customers, these cars require software licenses to tune that cost extra, we use UpRev to tune those cars, if they already have paid for Uprev licenses the cost would be the same. We are a UpRev dealer and can sell licenses if needed, if they need licenses, the license fee is $200.
Forced induction 350Z's require extra time.
In years past we have done 8 to 10 cars over a weekend. We would fly in on a Friday, tune Saturday and Sunday, fly back either Sunday night or Monday Morning.
Last year the demand had been higher and we needed to add a extra day(s) to the last few trips.
The first steps are to find a Dyno shop we can use, Come to an agreement on price with a dyno shop, figure out the dates your wanting and make sure the dates are good with the group and dyno shop. If you have this much coordinated, we can typically make the dates work if it is a few months in advance.
Typically the hardest thing to do is get everyone in your area to agree and be ready at the same time.
Hope that helps and feel free to ask questions.
Cheers
Greg
Specialty-Z
  
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