Tuning

Anyone have an idea what the price is on a tuning machine/kit or whatever it is? I'm thinking of buying one if it's not that much, since my brother in law does a lot of work for people on their imports and I figure I can more than make my money back with it. Also looking for sites that might have them for sale. Thanks.

You mean a dyno? That measures torque and horsepower. To actually tune cars you need a computer, some kind of tuning software, a chip burner and a wideband O2. Check these links out:

http://www.pgmfi.org/
http://home.mn.rr.com/keebler65/honda/uberdata.html

A good dyno will cost you roughly (could be quite a bit less or a little more) $80,000+. A friend of mine and his landlord are going to buy one for next summer and they plan to spend around $180,000 for a AWD Mustang one. Of course they're also going to buy attachments for motorcycles and snowmobiles, and they live down the road from a 1/4 mile track; so they'll make that $ back in a year and a half.

And then you need to think about the engine management systems you're going to be dealing with, the cost of training to be able to do tuning correctly.

to put it simply, its going to cost a shitload....i've seen used Dyno Jet dynos for sale for as little as $15k, but they only go up in price from there. You're also going to need a good wideband, liscensing for all of the software you're going to tune, datalogging cables, a good laptop, chip burner, etc, etc, etc and the most important part of all....experience

Yeah, I meant the ECU tuners. My brother in law can do all of that, we jsut need to get the tuner. We have the program needed.

AEM EMS starts at around 1350 depending on application i believe.

here i'll be nice (http://xenocron.com/)

hope this helps you with your question.