Does anyone have a tuner they like to use anywhere around Georgia, SC, NC, or Tennessee? Looking to get my r53 mapped, but it seems like everything’s on the other side of the pond.

It has thumper TPR1 head, TPR401 cam, ported inlet manifold, Volvo 380cc injectors, 15% pulley, DDM intake, and Invidia catback.

 

Any, reason you, don't want @adriancl ?

He's probably tuned the majority of first Gen cars on this, forum that have tunes. He's in Europe, but don't let that stop you. Do a search-you won't find anything negative, other than a rant by someone who is impatient.

 

No reason I’m against him. I just actually hadn’t heard of his tuning. Where’s the best place to get in contact with him?

 

Click this link@adriancl and send him a private message.

 

Curious to know what serpentine belt you used with your 15% pulley and 2% crank. Stock number? Thanks.

 

Way Motor Works in Atlanta. Way has many years of experience, very thorough. He did my original 2005 R53 "Trackrat" and it was almost as strong as our current GP.

 

Does he do actual tuning sessions for specific mods? I thought he only did like a pre made map that was a bit more aggressive than the OE map

 

^^^ Welcome to the forum! Use the search function as relates to Adrian's remote tuning service and you;ll find many posted over a long period of time. Likewise on European forums (incl FB) where he similarly has quite the following. Seems you joined NAM and posted your question without spending "quality time" reading topic search results...

 

honestly when I looked him up I saw good comments but also that he was banned on here, which isn’t great. I couldn’t find anything in the SE US really outside of way and I was attempting to look local.

 

^^^ Aha, thanks for clarifying that. I just now checked and @adriancl has not been banned, which would have been inexplicable. Most of his limited posting content on NAM since 2013 has been in response to related topics including DIY tutorials using INPA such as in this topic. Yes, I'm one of his more recent satisfied customers with successful remote tune provided earlier this year.

I also agree with NC Trackrat's suggestion of Way Motor Works based in Atlanta. WMW's JCW-spec tune (here) appealed to me, however total cost (including roundtrip postage) dissuaded. Your location could avoid shipment by arranging that service work by appointment. I preferred one-on-one interaction to achieve my own objectives of optimal engine efficiency with my known (and unknown) mods vs peak performance. Pretty sure the canned JCW tune would have sufficed but my remote tuning results were spot-on. Good luck with your own choice...

 

My apologies for not recognizing you were new to the forum. I assumed everyone knew Adrian. In full transparency I was pretty skeptical. I read a lot that sounded too good to be true. When I finished my recent mods I had​​​​ to have a tune. I didn't want a canned tune and am on the opposite corner of the map from WMW. If I was near him and could schedule an in person custom tune I would have done so. Way has been a huge help to me over the past several years in my build. But since that wasn't remotely feasible, and after a bunch of research, I gave Adrian a try. I was very pleased with the outcome. You can't go wrong with either option.

 

unless I’m completely misreading the thread he was banned then unbanned. Which is where I got that from. I’m more than likely gonna go through him, just such a different process than what I’m use to in the muscle car world. Definitely skeptical but seems to have lots of good results

 

I don't know how far away you are from Atlanta but I set up an appointment with Way, drove 5 hours to his shop, then to his dyno facility where he did the tune with at least 8 pulls to ensure optimum results, then drove back home...all in a day's time. Well worth the time and effort.

 

Not sure if this question was directed to me...

I did not use the stock #. I used the Detroit Tuned website MINI Cooper Belt (detroittuned.com) to select K060539. Works well. FWIW, I tried to run the K060535 for 15% pulley, and my car didn't like it at all. 6 mm doesn't seem like much, but I was slipping like crazy.

 

Update for anyone curious, way motor works no longer does dyno days nor custom tuning. Looks like I’ll be going through Adrian!

 

nowdays all you need is a wideband and data logger to get the most out of your mod & custom tune anyway.

 

Incorrect we DO still do tuning as we do our standard tunes on cars in the shop all the time and people send us ECUs weekly.

But custom dyno tuning has a lot more time involved so at this time we are not doing dyno tunes, unless we have done the entire build.
Since we are scheduling service work weeks out, we have to get caught up on the normal daily service work, before we can take time away from the shop to go to the dyno for a tune.

 

When I meant custom I was referring to per car vs just a canned preset flash tune. That’s what I was informed on the phone and was flat out told nothing could be done for my car at your shop since it had head/cam. Now if that’s wrong my apologies, but that’s what I was told.