HPTuners arrived!

HPTuners arrived on Friday. I had waited until Friday for my paycheck to place my order for the wideband O2 sensor, but I thought that I could get a start on it before that arrives. I had found a particularly good writeup on how to get a good base tune (ve tables and maf). I downloaded the current, stock, tune from my car and dived right in. I got all of the way through configuring it to run SD (speed density...basically it turns off the MAF sensor and does all of its fueling calculations based on the MAP sensor reading) only to realize that I truly had to have that wideband O2 sensor in order to move forward with the writeup.

Crap.

Ok, back to reading through the HPTuners forums to see what nuggets of information I could find.

One thing that sounded interesting was the ability to essentially create a software 2-step for manual transmission cars. Once I get through my base tuning I may revisit that since it would probably be a lot of fun :)

I also looked through all of the things that I could adjust. I set it up so that the fans would run after I shut the car off if the temperature was high enough to have the fans running in the first place. I disabled CAGS (computer aided gear selection) in the computer, so I can remove the hack/fix pigtail that I had installed right after purchasing the car. I also raised Maximum Net Engine Torque to it's maximum value (640ftlbs). I don't think that the last one will affect me much since I am at a relatively stock power level, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Now I'm going to go flash it to the car's PCM, set up black box logging (so that I don't have to have my laptop with me all the time) and do a little driving before I go to the gym.