Tuner near Jacksonville NC

Monday I will be ordering the Carpenter sidewinder exhaust and triple filters and am looking for a good tuner, that hopefully can work with Tune ECU. If necessary I will drive further to get a quality tune. I even considered the 8 hour ride to see Power-Tripp, but it looks like he has closed shop. What are the recommended shops here on the east coast?

RiggerMark said:

Monday I will be ordering the Carpenter sidewinder exhaust and triple filters and am looking for a good tuner, that hopefully can work with Tune ECU. If necessary I will drive further to get a quality tune. I even considered the 8 hour ride to see Power-Tripp, but it looks like he has closed shop. What are the recommended shops here on the east coast?

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You can mail your ECU to Carpenter and for $200 they will load the tune for their pipe.

Thanks. If I can't find a better option, that is what I'll do. I would prefer to have a custom tune if I'm going to spend the $. There are a couple places here in town that have dyno's, just not sure I trust them.

RiggerMark said:

Monday I will be ordering the Carpenter sidewinder exhaust and triple filters and am looking for a good tuner, that hopefully can work with Tune ECU. If necessary I will drive further to get a quality tune. I even considered the 8 hour ride to see Power-Tripp, but it looks like he has closed shop. What are the recommended shops here on the east coast?

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There is a tuner here in Raleigh who has a good rep. with the Harley tuning. I am going to buy an hour of his time so he can smoke over the TuneEcu software and see if he is comfortable with having a go at it. May not be a bad idea to do the same with one of your local guys.

Star racing down south of Atlanta has said that they are confident that they can get the job done. Considering their history with hotrod motorcycles, I tend to believe them. It was also brought to my attention that the PC V with the autotune module is also a viable option.

I will keep you posted on what the local guy has to say, but it is likely to be a couple of months away.

BillB said:

There is a tuner here in Raleigh who has a good rep. with the Harley tuning. I am going to buy an hour of his time so he can smoke over the TuneEcu software and see if he is comfortable with having a go at it. May not be a bad idea to do the same with one of your local guys.

Star racing down south of Atlanta has said that they are confident that they can get the job done. Considering their history with hotrod motorcycles, I tend to believe them. It was also brought to my attention that the PC V with the autotune module is also a viable option.

I will keep you posted on what the local guy has to say, but it is likely to be a couple of months away.

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I believe Carpenter tunes with real-time Tuneboy. Even if he has tuned for that exhaust with triple K&N's, and would supply you with the tune, you'd need to buy the Tuneboy license to load it. You could drive to NJ to have Carpenter dyno tune it. On the other hand, if there is a good HD tuner locally who uses Power Commander, jump on it. I have Jardines and K&N's. I got a PCIII and had it dyno tuned to 152hp/162ft lbs SAE at WOT. It's also super smooth at lower throttle where I do most of my riding. Before doing the PCIII, put a base map in with TuneECU with the secondaries open 100% and the highest gear timing table copied into the tables for the lower gears.

dougl said:

I believe Carpenter tunes with real-time Tuneboy. Even if he has tuned for that exhaust with triple K&N's, and would supply you with the tune, you'd need to buy the Tuneboy license to load it. You could drive to NJ to have Carpenter dyno tune it. On the other hand, if there is a good HD tuner locally who uses Power Commander, jump on it. I have Jardines and K&N's. I got a PCIII and had it dyno tuned to 152hp/162ft lbs SAE at WOT. It's also super smooth at lower throttle where I do most of my riding. Before doing the PCIII, put a base map in with TuneECU with the secondaries open 100% and the highest gear timing table copied into the tables for the lower gears.

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I actually asked the guy that answered the phone at CR if I bought the brute exhaust would they put the bike on the dyno and tune it. The response was 'no, just send us your ECU and we will re-flash it'. The 200 bux that they charge is for the license to load the Tuneboy setup.

That was part of the reason that I decided to go with the new Reband R3T pipe instead of the brute. I am sure that the fine folks at CR have their dance cards pretty full with tuning the bikes that they are building so, no sour apples on my part about it. If they would have done the real life tune on the bike instead of a canned reflash, I would have went with their pipe even though it would have been my second choice for an exhaust. The Brute isn't a bad looking pipe but the Reband that I have sitting upstairs waiting to go on is one SEXY hunk of Aussie stainless!

I have the PT D-R tune in the ECU and another that the one and only Hanso tweaked off of that tune for the pipe and ramair filter. At the moment I am waffling between a dyno tuning and PC-V with auto-tune for the final tweaks.