.justin.

This is great news for the citizens of DC. It's been too long now that the "gunless" utopia of DC has withheld firearms to law abiding citizens while the thousands of thugs commit crimes on an hourly basis. Too bad the "general" population within the district doesn't see this as a good thing. The average citizen there thinks this will increase crime. Saw a lady interviewed on the news last night whose son and nephew were both shot and killed within the district and yet she thinks legalizing them will lead to a problem... I suppose that the guns used to kill her family members were fired from Maryland. I worked in one of the rougher neighborhoods for just over a year. Police came to the office just after we opened it, warning everybody not to stay at work after dark and to avoid eye contact or stopping near loitering "groups" on the side of the street.

Is acceleration that much of a risk??

Hey Steve (and Danny), Very detailed write-up (great job). Just thought I'd point out that if the truck is a 99-02, there is no green connector, the connector is red on those trucks. The Pin 33 function will need to be adjusted to operate fan 2 rather than auto a/c recirculation.

Nope, I'm out of Alexandria, VA. LAGA, glad you're enjoying the tune. What'd you need to do to get the idle in line Reynaldo?

Congrats on the run(s) Chase!

Hey Joe, Looking good there. I shot Reynaldo an email about the P0101 code, it can (and needs to be) fixed within the tune. Should take him all of 1 minute to update the tune and flash it in for you some time. Justin

Reading on one cylinder isn't as important as a variation reading. If you're really concerned about that one cylinder, I'd weld a bung into that primary and run another wideband vs a pyrometer. They were much more prevalent in the gas tuning world before the advent of the inexpensive wideband.

It's very common for octane boosters to cause the spark plug to take on a reddish tint like that.

And what credentials do you have to counter his experience as editor of a economics-focused magazine? No insult intended whatsoever, I'm just curious. Based on my schooling, I have to give the observation a bit of credit, as there are many valid points.

You and me both Steve. I've gotten a lot of flack from people when discussing my extreme distaste for the road FDR set us down on. In 80 years, we've gone from having social services that are a fly speck on the annual government expenditures to it now outranking national defense (and every other facet of spending).

They are for-profit, publicly held companies. They are owned by millions of people collectively. To sell at a lower cost while the world market dictates a higher price would yield little benefit considering the level of importing we do.

Their profit margin in terms of percentage is very small relative to other large companies. 7% profit is not much. It would also hurt just about everybody that has a 401K as well, considering many funds utilize some form of oil investment.

The EPA is LARGELY to blame for the price of diesel. In fact, the EPA is largely to blame for much of our refining and gas mileage issues. Why can't we have lean cruise in our cars here to get better gas mileage? EPA. Why are there 18 separate gasoline formulas in production around the US? Some form of EPA whether it be federal or state. The oil companies are NOT the root of the problem.

Start investing everything that you can. Create a sharebuilder account and get into USO or BPT (great dividends). USO went up over 8% today alone.

As the author mentioned, peoplethought the same thing about the housing market and dot com. Much like those two situations, this current pricing system is driven by speculators. Frankly, I'm one of them with about 10K in BPT, PBR and USO now. USO went up almost 8% today alone.

The cost definitely adds up... I just paid for my year's GM SPS subscription yesterday... $995 to program factory calibrations... Ugh.

Congrats on getting the licenses. Feels good to not have to pay for individual licenses now, doesn't it? It's great to be able to give tunes to friends and family without worrying about the cost. SS_bnoon_SS: Regarding E85 on stock SS injectors... It would be sheer insanity to run over 4000rpm at WOT on that tune... Stock injectors are too small for gasoline on a stock SS, let alone E85 needing nearly 50% more injector. If you're just putting around town, that's fine, but I'd strongly suggest limiting the throttle angle in the tune to prevent yourself from accidentally mashing the throttle and leaning WAY out.

The term is steady state tuning. Something that can't be done on an inertia dyno.

Of those listed, the AEM would be my choice as the solid winner. The dyno numbers (~2hp difference) can be explained away by a very slight adjustmet of atmospheric correction due to temperature. All compensation factors from run to run were within .5% difference. The telling points about the AEM are the amount of intake restriction (MAP), IAT stability and total airflow. This was also shown in Reynaldo and Art's previous testing of a few intakes out on the street a few weeks back.

Injectors and timing are unrelated... Especially considering that he's planning to run a wet shot. Personally, I'd suggest pulling 3* of timing for a 100 shot. Chase's truck saw no improvement in power from 2* of timing retard vs 3* of timing retard, so no sense in running a 2* reduction.

The results showed that they were all significantly better than stock. We'll have to wait for Reynaldo to post the results, as I let him run all of the dyno tests and didn't get to see much of how they ended up. I only know which one won and by how much. ;-)

Very nice car man. Can't wait til I add one to my garage.

Service ID and BCC (4 character code) are useful as well.

Yep. They actually make much much less on a percentage basis than many big companies. Google, microsoft and ebay all operate with 25-40% profit margins... Law of large numbers at play.

Who cares if their profits would be higher. Look at their profit margin on a percentage basis, it's tiny. More domestic oil would help stabilize the market as it pertains to oil sales. Would be great to show them that we're not going to be pushed around financially.