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Blackbear is the best. They typically say do your mods before tuning, so they can adjust their final tune for you. Although, tune updates are free. So you can always update them. But it would just be one less step to have to retune.

Are their core tunes pretty good. The ones you don't do in person?

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I've used Blackbear in the past and have nothing but great things to say about them. Truly a class-act operation.

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Stevens03 Senior Enthusiast

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Jenna - When are you guys coming to Pittsburgh again? I'd like Justin to tune my truck at some point. I'm not in a hurry but if he gets to PA, Please let me know.

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Looks like the guys are still accepting deposits:

 

http://blackbearperformance.com/calendar.asp

 

Can you explain how the in-person tune works, exactly? Is it necessary that I buy an AutoCal? I see it says it will ship after the in person tune according to your spare module order form.

 

So is the process completely finished on the day of the in-person tune? Or is there still email correspondence to fine-tune the program?

Stevens03 Senior Enthusiast

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He'll load one of his stock tunes. Then you'll go for a drive and he'll do live monitoring of the engine management then make adjustments as he sees fit. Then upload the final tune. It will be custom to your truck. To me it doesn't get any better in my opinion because its live tuning.

Jennabear Senior Enthusiast

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Can you explain how the in-person tune works, exactly? Is it necessary that I buy an AutoCal? I see it says it will ship after the in person tune according to your spare module order form.

 

So is the process completely finished on the day of the in-person tune? Or is there still email correspondence to fine-tune the program?

The previous poster was correct, Justin will build on a tune as you drive around. Your final product is custom to your vehicle.

 

Where the AutoCal comes into play, is it is an easy way for you to flash back to stock, or update your tune down the road. All done via email. The AutoCal ships after the tuning meet, this way you get the discount. Justin will have a few on hand at the meets as well, but they sell out pretty quick.

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He'll load one of his stock tunes. Then you'll go for a drive and he'll do live monitoring of the engine management then make adjustments as he sees fit. Then upload the final tune. It will be custom to your truck. To me it doesn't get any better in my opinion because its live tuning.

 

The previous poster was correct, Justin will build on a tune as you drive around. Your final product is custom to your vehicle.

 

Where the AutoCal comes into play, is it is an easy way for you to flash back to stock, or update your tune down the road. All done via email. The AutoCal ships after the tuning meet, this way you get the discount. Justin will have a few on hand at the meets as well, but they sell out pretty quick.

Thanks for the info. So the AutoCal will allow me to switch back and forth from my custom tune to stock without needing any intervention from you guys? I like that.

 

I may be signing up for the Chicago event.

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Correct, the AutoCal allows you to switch between tunes as you wish. When you are wanting a tune update, you just send BBP a new datalog, via email, and a tune will be emailed back to you.

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hmm... I'd probably be interested in a black bear tune in Pittsburgh as well

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Any idea when the northern VA meet will be? I would like to get on it but depending on the date it could be tuff to make happen.

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