terbow
03-31-2005, 03:41 PM
To Start, Anyone who has something negative, or unconstructive to say please leave the thread. I really, really don’t want this to get shut down because someone has a problem with MPI, MPI TUNER, NICK, or NJ in general. This is about MY experience and I want to share it because it’s positive which can be a rare thing these days.
The drive down, Sucked. Apparently there’s traffic 24 hrs a day on the cross Bronx expressway. Couple that with thick London fog and torrential downpour and you in for a good time. 5 hrs later we were there. Called CustomMSP to meet up and he mentions the new SMIC is in and to come down. Woot. So I got there and we installed it. FITS NICE. Apparently it’s much better than before. I learned something that night, no matter how many times you pull the trunk release; it will NEVER open the hood hahaha. What a noob i am. So we got that installed, and it pulled nice on the top, but most noticeably the heat soak on drives is gone. Of course in traffic it happens a bit but it’s a MAJOR improvement. So now im-guessing im at 7psi (waiting for leadfoots bezel) CustomMSP even redid some of my lines for me, he’s really a great person and vendor. Goes way out of his way to help.
So now its 8:30am on tues, we drive to mpi. Which map quest is wrong! But we found the place. Met nick, and got acquainted. The shop is pretty nice; it’s pretty impressive (to me). So we get ready to go, and I noticed the STI is warming up..hehe I think we get to ride in it. But before we do he has to move the viper. Oh the viper, I don’t know what’s in it, but its MEAN sounding. So I get the car in the garage, and we get in the sti and he drops us off at the mall for the day.
Around 12:00ish I get really sick (I think I was dehydrated badly) so we go to the Sheraton (woot). Around 3 ish nick calls and the car is done, even offered to let me sleep longer cause I was feeling like shiznit. But I couldn’t resist.
So he pulls up in my car, and we go back to the shop. I drove speed limits but I can immediately tell this isn’t my old msp. We get to the shop and he gives me a complete rundown. Explains software, what he did, how it works, and some basic operations. He also mentioned my msp idles a 16ish afr. Which I saw on my stock dyno, so I knew about it. He richened it up for me but he wasn’t sure if it would throw a code or not because if u add to much the stock ecu will pull even more fuel. So after my tutorial and software delivery and such I left. I ripped on it a bit and holy SHIT!. That’s all I can say, I got about 5 mins down the road and got a light, he scanned the code and it was bank1 too lean, which he expected. So he adjusted the idle fuel down a bit so were not adding so much fuel, cleared code.
Other than that light the thing runs MINT. No startup issues, no stumbling, nothing. Pure Bliss. Ran first time, every time. The car pulls so great, now instead of it feeling like its just struggling to get into boost its just one smooth acceleration. When I step on the pedal, it responds and goes. I even mentioned it was sluggish cause I was waiting for the hesitation but it’s so smooth I couldn’t tell that’s how it SHOULD be lol.
Nick and MPI made me feel completely welcome and deliver a great product. Any issues I have he helps me with but I haven’t had anything major (just CEL). The MSP drives how it should have from factory. Its now truly an all around beast. It’s just how I want it for now. Boost will stay where it is until the engine gets built but I might work on the tuning a bit later on just so I can get it perfect, once im completely happy with my road tune ill dyno it just to see where its at.
I can say this, installed correctly, this unit is great. It will do everything you need and then some. I am by no means going to push the envelope on my car but just being tuned is amazing to say the least.
Alls I have is GHL 3” Turbo back, customMSP SMIC, and MPI tuner. And it’s a great combo. The car pulls and is a blast to drive.
The drive down, Sucked. Apparently there’s traffic 24 hrs a day on the cross Bronx expressway. Couple that with thick London fog and torrential downpour and you in for a good time. 5 hrs later we were there. Called CustomMSP to meet up and he mentions the new SMIC is in and to come down. Woot. So I got there and we installed it. FITS NICE. Apparently it’s much better than before. I learned something that night, no matter how many times you pull the trunk release; it will NEVER open the hood hahaha. What a noob i am. So we got that installed, and it pulled nice on the top, but most noticeably the heat soak on drives is gone. Of course in traffic it happens a bit but it’s a MAJOR improvement. So now im-guessing im at 7psi (waiting for leadfoots bezel) CustomMSP even redid some of my lines for me, he’s really a great person and vendor. Goes way out of his way to help.
So now its 8:30am on tues, we drive to mpi. Which map quest is wrong! But we found the place. Met nick, and got acquainted. The shop is pretty nice; it’s pretty impressive (to me). So we get ready to go, and I noticed the STI is warming up..hehe I think we get to ride in it. But before we do he has to move the viper. Oh the viper, I don’t know what’s in it, but its MEAN sounding. So I get the car in the garage, and we get in the sti and he drops us off at the mall for the day.
Around 12:00ish I get really sick (I think I was dehydrated badly) so we go to the Sheraton (woot). Around 3 ish nick calls and the car is done, even offered to let me sleep longer cause I was feeling like shiznit. But I couldn’t resist.
So he pulls up in my car, and we go back to the shop. I drove speed limits but I can immediately tell this isn’t my old msp. We get to the shop and he gives me a complete rundown. Explains software, what he did, how it works, and some basic operations. He also mentioned my msp idles a 16ish afr. Which I saw on my stock dyno, so I knew about it. He richened it up for me but he wasn’t sure if it would throw a code or not because if u add to much the stock ecu will pull even more fuel. So after my tutorial and software delivery and such I left. I ripped on it a bit and holy SHIT!. That’s all I can say, I got about 5 mins down the road and got a light, he scanned the code and it was bank1 too lean, which he expected. So he adjusted the idle fuel down a bit so were not adding so much fuel, cleared code.
Other than that light the thing runs MINT. No startup issues, no stumbling, nothing. Pure Bliss. Ran first time, every time. The car pulls so great, now instead of it feeling like its just struggling to get into boost its just one smooth acceleration. When I step on the pedal, it responds and goes. I even mentioned it was sluggish cause I was waiting for the hesitation but it’s so smooth I couldn’t tell that’s how it SHOULD be lol.
Nick and MPI made me feel completely welcome and deliver a great product. Any issues I have he helps me with but I haven’t had anything major (just CEL). The MSP drives how it should have from factory. Its now truly an all around beast. It’s just how I want it for now. Boost will stay where it is until the engine gets built but I might work on the tuning a bit later on just so I can get it perfect, once im completely happy with my road tune ill dyno it just to see where its at.
I can say this, installed correctly, this unit is great. It will do everything you need and then some. I am by no means going to push the envelope on my car but just being tuned is amazing to say the least.
Alls I have is GHL 3” Turbo back, customMSP SMIC, and MPI tuner. And it’s a great combo. The car pulls and is a blast to drive.