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Swift Motorsports in Norwich, CT...

hotdimmes

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...will not be getting my business again. I was just there for a uconn dyno day and the guy doing the pulls was a bit of a jerk. A little too much joking around that came off pretty condescending.

Strike 1: overheard another employee mention my car was coming up, explaining it was like an SHO. Dyno guy says "yeah well it's still slow"

strike 2: dyno guy starts my car up on the dyno and says "It's a contour, not a viper" implying that my exhaust note was not apropriate for the car.

strike 3: printed out my dyno with an absurd correction factor showing almost 300hp. Then says to me "post that one on the forums instead"

OK guy, I know the car isn't the 1000hp evo/sti you work with regularly but you don't have to be a prick about it. I don't understand people claiming to be a part of the enthusiast community as a hobby and business yet still pull crap like that. Not how you get repeat customers (not that he would be making lots of money from the "massive" contour tuner crowd but still.)

Anyway, I put down 162hp/162tq, and thats including a correction factor to make it more like a dynojet. It was a "Dyno Dynamics" dyno. Last time at bristol dyno I put down 147/150. Changes made since then were msds headers/optimized ypipe/removed k&n,installed stock intake. So +15hp/+12tq pretty much like msds advertises.

Also, I got nice comments on my gauge cluster along with praise from some young lad at autozone lol.
 
what a bunch off azz hats :nonono:. when I got my dyno tune the guys where really cool and asked me all kinds of ?'s about contours, granted I didn't lay down award winning #'s but they where great guys. swipe them right of your list, they have a getto dyno anyways.
 
yeah the guys up at ESP where really good. That where dead on with a guess on what my car would run. They where also very flexable. We had to pin open the secondaries on Bobs car and I went in and added fuel for Andrew (NECO) with his xcal3 so he got some good numbers. I also had to reset my pcm so that the a/f was better. No complains, just informative and easy going.

Those are some of the reasons I always went back to Bristol Dyno before it closed.
 
yeah and the guy had the nerve to mention earlier in the day how xx tuning was a bunch of elitests. pot. kettle. black.


lmao. I know alot of people say good about them but I have heard alot of negative also .... couldn't even be bothered to run a baseline on my car a few months ago ....
 
yeah and the guy had the nerve to mention earlier in the day how xx tuning was a bunch of elitests. pot. kettle. black.

From what I've heard, XX Tuning doesn't like Swift because they annoy the hell out of them on the street. All they do is try to race:nonono:. Swift is nothing but a bunch of typical Honda tuners; so XX Tuning rapes them occasionally with the Supra and Cobra. Guess that makes them elitists:shrug::nonono:

Sorry to hear the story. I know I'm never going there:nonono:
 
oh yeah, I wasn't saying xx wasn't jerks, just saying that the guy was telling me a story about how xx gave him a hard time when they didn't dig his Sentra SE-R and then this guy goes and gives me a hard time. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I'm happy with my results. It puts me around SVT power(that falls off sooner) with more torque.
 
oh yeah, I wasn't saying xx wasn't jerks, just saying that the guy was telling me a story about how xx gave him a hard time when they didn't dig his Sentra SE-R and then this guy goes and gives me a hard time. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I'm happy with my results. It puts me around SVT power(that falls off sooner) with more torque.

If he has the car I think hes has, it is currently covered in bondo, and missing half of its "Blitz" body kit. XX digs smooth, subtle cars. Of course they didn't like it:laugh:

Well, I'm glad your car worked out. It looks great:cool:
 
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