my take on it is any good tuner wont take a job on umnless they know they have time with the car to get it 100% right, especially on a track car, and as TDP are competeing in TOTB and time attack amongst other things then time is obviously an issue with some jobs. having said that i cant see why it would have been printed, but thats writers for you, although i think it was written bu Colfer was it not??
anyway back on topic as jailbait lost me after i said about an owner exaggerating thier figures then he backed me up on it when tryin to prove me wrong but anywho...... to find the best tuner MHO is to try out who you have heard to be the most succesful in the buisness and make your own mind up from there.
it was writting by colfer
i didnt realize i was off topic,
your dead right mick,to find the best its always a chance,as you said you've been through 4 tuners and only prefer one,its trial and error and im sure people recommended the other 3 tuners to you but they werent to your liking,
one mans rubbish is another mans gold as they say in blaney hey
i have only had 1 car mapped but had it with both westward and tdp... origionally left it down with westward got phonecall following day sayin car couldn be mapped as he could not increase boost so he charged me 150 to fit plugs that i suppplied and to do some minor tweaks to fuelling so he said... he told me to buy new external wastegate and retuen to him...
i took it to tdp for second opinion, robbie ran car on dyno and found it runnin dangerously lean(wez tested car when i bought it and it showed car was runnnin slightly rich) so was lean after leaving westward... robbie also discovered the car was still runnin a rb25de fuel pump somethin martin failed to notice.. robbie also found the boost increase problem was somthin to do with bov there was no vacuum line runnin to it so once that was sorted he could increse boost and map car.... in my opinion he is very good at wat he does and ill continue to take cars to him
There was almost 2months between westward and tdp looking at the car/ You took off the wastegate + found a rip in a hose before you went to tdp.
Once you go altering parts that can affect the boost you could run rich or lean. the fuel pump could have deteriorated over the 2months aswell.
I think €150 was fair considering the time spend fitting the spark plugs,setting the car up on the rolling road + trying to map it.
Back to original poster : Tdp have probably mapped more drift cars than any other tuner in the country, most of them sr20's running pfc's ,so have no douth that robbie is competent enough + experienced enough to map your sr20.
but that hose still didnt sort boost issue and surely the rb25de pump wouldn be able to run car at the higher boos level