[Porschekid962]

Jeff, where have you heard it isnt all its cracked up to be? I never understood it to be better than hours of dyno time with an experienced tuner but in terms of getting oddball motor configurations running I havent heard anything bad. As far as sitting down in front of a computer and plugging in numbers that has to be done at some point. Check out the autronic page and see if any dealers are near you and would head to a dyno to help you set it up.

FWIW I have read plenty of pages from Aussie tuners sites, import sites and so on. The only problem I have come across, if you tune your car or others a lot is what type of 02 sensor to use in conjunction with the ECU. For an end user that wants to set up his car once and get on with it, most of them report getting within 3% of their spec'd AFR #s and others say within 1/2 of 1%. This is with entering a number into one cell in the map for each rpm point, I find that very impressive.

I would like to know where you heard that the autotune isnt all that its cracked up to be and what was said about it.

Anyways, best of luck to you and at the end of the day if this seems too daunting or begins falling into the law of dimishing returns then go with what your comfy with. We went this route because mfi was out, cis is long gone and carbs seemed too much of a hassle for something driven on an almost daily basis.