First, please no more namecalling by anyone. Tech is Tech.
I seldom change anything but RPM on a trans tune because it's always worked for me. Back when I played with other changes, my timeslips did not improve, and since shifting wasn't a problem, I worked on other things.
About the "TunerWars"...
This has been going on since Dmaxes were first hotrodded. "Bastard Stack vs. TTS" was perhaps the first battle, and it continues to this day. With the advent of EFILive, the number of tuners exploded, which is something many of us predicted back when it was just an idea. Guy Tripp was pretty much responsible for EFILive exploring Duramax tuning, and it's the best single change in Duramax performance (for the racers) since the first Edge box. So it's ALL GUY'S FAULT!!!
With EFILive, along came many ethical and philosophical questions:
The people who fought against EFILive support for our trucks were telling us racers that we should not have better tools and technology for our trucks. Some threatened lawsuits against EFILive to try and scare them from the market. These people I have true contempt for. How dare they try and tell us how we can modify our trucks? Schmucks. They should worry about their own racing, not ours.
Tune-sharing is common. It betters the breed. But it's also unethical if the tune was a commercial product sold to just one customer. To build a tune right, you need to spend hours on a dyno, and at the track. It's not cheap. People who say they developed max-effort tunes by "seat of the pants" are fibbing. What feels fast, often isn't. "Pipey" tunes hit you big rush, and feel violent, but a tune with equal peak power, but more area under the curve, won't feel as fast by seat of the pants. The dyno time should be paid for to use that tune.
Tune sharing is based on "unlocked" tunes, which causes the lion's share of the fighting among EFILive users. There are two philosophies on this, neither is right or wrong, just different. My tuning has always been unlocked. I've been critized a lot about this. I was one of the first to include an unlocked racing tune with EFILive sales for free. I had had problems with locked tunes on our Corvette and Camaro, so I treat others as I want to be treated, and do not lock them. My goal was to push EFILive aggressively to the racers, so that the crew at EFILive would see that Duramax support was critical to their company. It is possible that without aggressive marketing EFILive to the racers, that EFILive would not have supported LBZ+, which was a huge expense in development for EFILive. But there are shops that do lock their tunes because the expense of developing custom tuning is very high, and they want to protect their investment. This is very smart from a business perspective. To be honest, even though I sold hundreds of seats of EFILive, expenses exceed profits still. But it did accomplish my goal, which was to get better tools for Duramaxes.
It's pretty rare to read a post by me trashing other people's tuning. It's counter productive. There was a time when the main battle was to Whup The Dodges, but now sometimes it seems we just want to beat each other up. At some point, there will be so many shops selling EFILive and unlocked tuning, that tuning files will become virtually public domain. Then the folk we call bastards today, will all be in the same boat, yet we will be enemies insteads of fellow racers. It's just as hard to put toothpaste back in the tube as to "uninsult" somebody.
So discuss tech, but leave the smack talk for the Dodge guys.
