Tacoma - OVTUNE - VFTUNER - Update Info and Original Development

Got mine as well. With the pace of shipping all you guys down south will have yours and get your tunes set before mine arrives haha

 

Not unless you're in NFLD you're not lol!

As far as USPS tracking goes, it's almost completely useless. Got the same notification 3 days in a row about how my stuff had been processed through LA and is in Transit. Oh well, it'll get here eventually.

 

Almost haha. Halifax.

 

Same here, there are quite a few 3rd Gens on the road in the area

 

Yeah you need to avoid the First class International BS. It has to be at least Priority to get tracking. I've had parts for a broken race car that were shipped from Spokane on Aug 7th, still not here with no updates. Left LAX on Aug 17th, after that I get nothing. We race this weekend and the car may not have brake cooling ducts.

 

Not to dog on the original dyno volunteer, but I hope we will see a bit more aggressive tune this time. By all accounts there is more in the tank. Yeah, I know.. I'm not the one "risking" my engine.

 

I can understand the first person going conservative on the dyno with a new truck and tune. Hopefully they can go for max gains this time...

 

well we came into this knowing there's more in the tank. I could just recreate a 18' Camry tune and instant 23hp at the crank.

The thing we understand though is that a lot of people with these trucks have them for a purpose.

Unlike tuning a Miata where you want maximum gains in high RPM to get you out of a corner faster, a Truck needs maximum low end torque to just move itself and move weight.

 

What does the torque curve look like on the camry?

 

quoted at 267 crank so near identical. They just turned up top end 4500+ RPM.

it's easy to see in the Camry tune toyota literally just bumped up VVT and called it a day.

 

One thing I still notice and I know you can't look at this on the dyno, but this truck falls on its face off the line. Can toque converter stall be controlled by the ECU? This could be a stupid question, I just don't know.

 

Mat, do you like the chances of boosting torque in the "usable truck range" on the dyno tomorrow?

 

That can happen in the M/T too, when you hammer it off the line. Kinda feels like the bog you get when the choke is stuck on in a carbureted engine.

 

I'll need to do a little research but most likely yes. Lock up is ECU controlled in nearly all other toyota / lexuses.

however, my laundry list of stuff to look into by request is already quite a handful. I can't make any promises or a timeline on torque converter stuff at the moment.

 

@OVTune Advancing the valve timing to capture the 23 HP sounds great...

 

More torque tomorrow, convert it later.

 

But that is above 4500, I rarely go past 4

 

Nice lol

 

So are we still looking at a 3-4 week lead time for new orders? The buy it now finger is itching badly again.

 

no, on new orders we're looking at 2 weeks or less. we have more dongles continually getting to us.