Best tuners in the DFW Area
 

I have a 2018 ZL1 1LE and want to do some mild mods and need some recommendations on the best dyno tuners in DFW. Will be using the car for track days and street driving so I want a good tune for all throttle positions not just for wide open throttle. Most threads that I have found on this subject are older, so looking for some advice that is more recent.
Thanks, Jim

21st century
ADM
Famous Netflix Star Tiana Webber Accelerated motorsports
LG motorsports
Baily's

In that order... After 1 or 2 I would just go to Houston

Sorian tuning
Peitz Performance Famous Youtube tuner of Amelia Hartford
POWERFAB
BC Raceworks

Sorian and Peitz I would put above them all. You will get detailed info Peitz about how the car is tuned what things he changed and so on a very nice guy and spends a lot of time explaining thing so if your looking for that service use Alex.

I have had experience with all except Bailys and Accelerated Lg screwed my 4th gen up back in 96 but I'm sure that tech isn't there any more. There still in business and never heard anything bad about for a while.


Chose a good tuner but also look at the price you will be constantly upgrading so make sure to ask what retunes cost it will end up saving ya a few 100 in the future.

Thanks for the info Hobbies! Smetm50 we should meet up sometime, I just bought an '18ZLE myself, and was looking for the same info.

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Thanks for the reply. I will check them out.

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No LMR ? I see post and videos on YouTube all the time.
EDFHOOBIES I know you know your stuff. Thanks

What about AMP?

There ok but I have heard a few bad experiences. Only 1 or 2 recent things but back in the day especially when Jay hammersly worked there a few years back u know the guy you may recall the fight on street Outlaws when they came to Houston and lmr was crying. They were constantly messing up my friends cars. There more affordable shops with better tuners is all.

Thanks for the response ! I do remember the fight !

Hard pass on LMR... especially for tuning. the list provided is a good one in the order it's listed.

It's always nice to have someone close to where you live too.

Accelerated Racing Solutions
https://www.acceleratedracingsolutions.com/

just so u know on the complex stuff say DI and Port or mixing aftermarket ecu's the cars make it all the way down to Htown and are tuned by Sorian. In fact they almost all use matt when something can't be tuned (bumbera's Houston house of power, and so on im almost 100 pos. i have seen an Accelerated car there.) He either tunes it or says take your shit apart somethings not right! So who would you want to tune your car I ask?

AMP has the best tuner in the world for some time now. He has tuned THOUSANDS of cars. They have produced the FASTEST street driven corvettes and camaros in the world. They currently have a ZL1 they built for a customer that is he FASTEST stock blower ZL1 in the world at 8.76 at 162MPH. www.advancedmodernperformance.com

Nice looking ZLE.

I was wondering the same thing.

+1 for AMP they have some of the fastest gen v cars hands down. If you want to drive or do remote, PatG does top notch work too out of Katy.

Motor Fast my question was answered, But I will say a few things alot of time guys can advertise that there game changers in this business, I have been around long enough with the motorcycle performance side of things, videos sale, and even if a shop has bad service, by time you find out the truth it's to late. I will take a serious performance guy word over any commercial or video. Take Bennessy for example ( I intended the misspelling on the B).

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When you've been around watching movement of techs between shops and tuners coming and going and issues not resolved it starts to become very clear. Most of the good ones don't have time to publish quality videos on YouTube and they don't need to because they are slammed with work. Word of mouth and their customer videos are plenty.

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Oh, I've wondered. I don't see many torque wrenches when things are going back together in certain videos. Someone just has the feel for what 40 lb-ft is... There's a reason I do my own work but I would also trust Katech. In the few videos they post I like what I see.

Sam Miller (AMP) has to be one of the best for sure and he's just off 161 south of 183. Big on FI cars but NA as well. Really surprised he's not big on this site.
Super nice to deal with and will keep it safe as well. I've used him for years and he's tuned like said above, literally thousands of LS's and LT's. His C7 PC has CR Racing PI I understand :thumbsup:
OK commercial over lol.

Another vote for Sam over at AMP!

Based on a personal recommendation and what I read here, I visited Sam today with my stock 18 ZLE with a Roto-Fab in the trunk. He was able to get me in immediately. Base tune, I was at 548hp/498tq. After installing the intake and 6 more pulls on the dyno, I am at 567hp/568tq. Very happy and will go back after a full exhaust and flex fuel install sometime in Feb.

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What’s up with the stock torque graph? Issue with sensor on dyno? He should of at least fixed it and got a accurate before tune pull. This one’s a mess :)

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It had already made MAX torque. That establishes the base. Who gives a shit??? GREAT RESULTS!!!!

Yeah the rpm sensor got loose. fixed that and everything was good after that.

Well no actually not correct. It doesn’t look like it read correctly from the get-go which is why it’s completely flat before looking like an etch a sketch

I tried to get Sam from AMP to tune my car but he kinda just blew me off. Perhaps because the car was already worked on by another shop. My cars currently tuned by Matt, and I'm in Houston as well, but getting work from the fastest is an alluring idea.

^^^ this.

From the look of the graph, baseline torque was on its way to 540-545-ish with a proper reading, so your increase from the Roto-Fab is not as phenomenal as it looks, to say the least. 15-20 hp/tq at best, the same everyone else has gotten since 2017 or 2018 ;)