Tuning my ride

well i have had my tuner for about a week now and have yet to tune it. i have the sct x3 tuner. when i was looking at the owners manuel online it says to hook it up to a windows based pc for an update. i only have mac and they are not windows based. also with the turner being preprogrammed do i need to find a tune online and if so where do i do that? please hellllpppppp!!!

You can get a tune online through any performance shop that has sct software.

03silvergt wrote:You can get a tune online through any performance shop that has sct software.

thats what i dont understand, where do i go to get those? and does the fact that i only have mac computers prohibit the download process?

Im not for sure about the downloading process but you could probably call SCT. As far as the internet tune, JPC may have SCT software, JDM, BAMA chips may have it, Brenspeed. Those companies may have SCT software but i'm not for sure. You can just google them and look on there website.

Check this link out.

http://www.bamachips.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8_38&products_id=67

Here is brenspeed.

http://www.brenspeed.com/05-08-mustang-custom-tuning-e-mail-tunes.html

So you bought just a plain unprogrammed tuner? Just order up a mail order tune from one or more of the above mentioned places and they should be able to link you to the website for "Live Load" which will transfer the files to the hand held. I don't know what all is compatible for MAC however... Kind of a PITA, but somebody with Windows could do it for you. Don't really need to mess with file transfers that often...

[quote="kooldawg6"]So you bought just a plain unprogrammed tuner? Just order up a mail order tune from one or more of the above mentioned places and they should be able to link you to the website for "Live Load" which will transfer the files to the hand held. I don't know what all is compatible for MAC however... Kind of a PITA, but somebody with Windows could do it for you. Don't really need to mess with file transfers that often...[/quot

no it's a pre-programmer tuner

With SCT "canned tunes" or custom loaded tunes (SCT software tuner, not SCT itself)? I've never heard of having to plug a custom tuned hand held up to a comp for an update???

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6078

run windows on your mac in a virtual pc install.

kooldawg6 wrote:With SCT "canned tunes" or custom loaded tunes (SCT software tuner, not SCT itself)? I've never heard of having to plug a custom tuned hand held up to a comp for an update???

I'm not sure about SCT but I had to plug my Diablo tuner into the computer to get the new update for it.

03silvergt wrote:

kooldawg6 wrote:With SCT "canned tunes" or custom loaded tunes (SCT software tuner, not SCT itself)? I've never heard of having to plug a custom tuned hand held up to a comp for an update???

I'm not sure about SCT but I had to plug my Diablo tuner into the computer to get the new update for it.

I've had my SCT X CAL 2 since March '07 and I've never needed to update it. Only had to use Live Load to upload the new custom tunes. So am no help to this situation

Let me rephrase that. I didn't have to update it but it was available so I did. They could all be a little different though.

03silvergt wrote:Let me rephrase that. I didn't have to update it but it was available so I did. They could all be a little different though.

yea its saying that there is an update available for it. i guess im just nervous because i dont want to mess the computer in the car up, maybe ill wait until i get to a meet so one of you all can walk me through it

my advice would be take it to a tuner who is skilled in sct tuning, excessive motorsport in manassas, va has a in house dynojet and is a level 4 sct tuning facility.

Excessive (Chris) in Manassas, is a great shop. I haven't gotten a dyno tune ($300) from him...yet, but have had my car on the dyno there and seen many others as well. They've also done my gears and midpipe swap back in early '07, so I've had great success with them, BUT it is a long haul from North Beach! I'm sure there are many who wouldn't mind walking you through the tune loading process! If you feel unsure, I'd definitely wait...

chris tuned my 03 mach and did an amazing job! also i have seen him do many tunes and he always done top top notch work!!

Cool thank u