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Message: [QUOTE="SpartanDieselTech, post: 1346138, member: 22311"] I'll be candid for a moment and point out a few things about the public conception of custom tuning vs canned tuning and how the tools we are working on differ (or, don't) between the two. Custom tuning, in reality, is simply the assembly of known tuning values to match with known hardware. There is tweaking that goes on, but when it's broken down, it's not a significant number of parameters that are actually modified to accomplish the task. Let's create an example. Say, customer "X" has a stock 6.4 with normal, off-the-shelf tuning in a device. He decides to install a fixed geometry turbo, 100% nozzles, dual pumps and a built trans. He then calls and orders a custom tune from company "Y". Company "Y" already has value sets that they've built from previous experience, that work with those components. For the turbo, certain diagnostics are disabled, the VGT power stages are disabled and fueling is adjusted to match the turbo sizing and spool-up. Global Pulsewidth is compensated for the nozzles to keep injection clean, a peak injection pulsewidth is chosen based on the customer's power and temperature requirements. Trans pressures are chosen based on the build of the transmission, and shift schedules are adjusted to help keep the turbocharger spooled properly. While each custom tuner may go about things a little differently, those are the tasks that must be performed for the truck to behave properly with those specific modifications. All we are doing is moving those operations from our keyboard, to your touch-screen. As for final "touch-up" of the file, the tools will also be there to add small changes to tweak things to your exact liking. For example, you need the 3-2 downshift to occur 2mph earlier because the truck lags from low RPM. Push a couple of buttons, and done. This eliminates the wait times for custom tuning, and all the back-and-forth for putting in tweaks for what you need. The other silver lining is that, if a customer needs a parameter added that isn't currently in the database (at any given point in time) we can add parameters at will. When this software is finished, it will be just as quick and easy for us to add a parameter accessible to everyone, that to make one-off custom file. Every user will benefit in this regard. If you have an application that is so far out in left field that even this software won't take care of it, you will still have the availability of a custom base file. I honestly feel these will be few and far between, for only the most exotic builds. Even in those cases, this software will still be able to create a usable file that could be tweaked further. To put it more briefly- what is often considered a "custom tune", in reality, is a canned tune, with fixed and prior-established value sets added to it. It is then dialed in by small increments, via feedback from the user to the tuner. This software removes the middle-man from this whole loop, making it cheaper, quicker, and easier for the customer to reach the end goal. [/QUOTE]