Morning/Afternoon All,
I dont know that i have ever really given BNR and
Jerry Kinney a review over EFI Live. So i will do that now.
I have had EFI Live for almost a year now. When i first got it all i had was a KN Short Ram Intake. Got the handheld in the mail. Immediately went and downloaded EFI Live and went out to my car and got an E78 read for my stock file. Got that loaded on to the EFI Live explorer, emailed it over to Jerry. Couple hours later and i had the base tune. Sadly I couldnt put it on that night. it was already 11pm and i had to work the next morning. Well i made sure i woke up early enough to throw the base tune on the car before work. Mannn can i say that base tune is INCREDIBLE all by itself. I immediately fell in love. Immediately felt more power. More throttle response. About a month later I ported my Intake Manifold. Holy **** even more response. Mainly it was just up top. Anyhow, sent Jerry a datalog. Took a few days as he is now getting more and more people using EFI Live. A month or two later, I did a muffler delete and sent jerry another log. took a few days as well. Still being fairly quick with his work. About 3 months after that i finally went catless. Again sent jerry a log and about a week later got an update. You HAVE to remember Jerry is a TWO person team. him and his SO. It will take the man some time to get back. hes got at least 300 sonics and cruzes that he tries to get updates for when asked. That brings me to today. I now have an FMIC installed, and need to send him an update. i havent yet have been busy with trying to get a house. Anyhow that doesnt matter.
Jerry throughout this entire year that i have had EFI Live has been nothing but great. Any question that i had asked him he was quick to answer.
Just because Jerry doesnt get back to you in a week or two weeks. Doesnt mean that he is ignoring you or doesnt care. he is a Two person crew. He is doing his damndest to make everyone happy. and make sure their cars are running the way they want them to be running.
I will speak for myself when i give Jerry and his SO a 5 star rating. He has done absolutely wonderful.
Now if you are on the edge whether you want to buy EFI Live or not. I will give you a brief break down on what you can expect out of the price that is listed.
$550 is the total price.
$350 includes the handheld itself, One cable that plugs from the handheld into youre laptop/pc, the second cable plugs from you handheld into your OBD2 on your computer.
$200 covers UNLIMITED tunes/tuning service by Jerry himself.
Take this into consideration. You go to dyno tune because you put on an FMIC. A lot of places will charge about $100 per hour. Lets say youre there for 30 mins. You still get charged that $100. Then the next month you put on a BOV, and go catless. Yo go back to the shop so that you can get updated for the things you added. youre there for 2 hours. That $200. In TWO trips you dropped $300.
Where as with EFI Live you spend $200 up front and from then on every single datalog you send to jerry and get an update back doesnt cost you a dime. I dont know about you. For me I like looking at the future. or the Long Range Plan (LRP). To me it was a far ebtter choice. Less money to spend on updates. More money to spend on parts.
PS: Sorry I did not mean to go on for so long Lol. If you read all of this you are a trooper.
PSS: here is the link to the website to order EFI Live if you would like to order.
store.badnewsracing.net/?AffId=26
