Performance Tuners

Understanding Tuners

There's only so much you can do to improve your car’s power by getting under the hood and installing new parts and sometimes you need a little help from tuners. Muscle car tuners are devices you plug into your engine’s OBD-II port to install tunes that alter the way your car performs. Most aftermarket tunes are handheld devices with pre-loaded tunes and fuel maps you can upload. Performance tunes from brands like BAMA can even have more than one tune loaded onto a device, so you can change how your vehicle drives on the fly. Tunes aren't just available as handheld devices, and you'll find a lot of chip tunes for older cars. These tunes work similarly but instead of having a handheld device everything is loaded onto a chip you plug into the OBD-II port. Performance chips tend to be for older vehicles due to the flexibility and availability of budget-friendly handheld muscle car tuners.

Benefits of Tuners

New vehicles and even many old ones come with OEM tunes programmed into the ECU or PCM. Unlike aftermarket tuners, most manufacturers are conservative, but you'll find that uploading aftermarket tuners will change how your car drives. For example, you can upload a racing tune to ensure that a richer air-to-fuel ratio enters the car engine. Muscle car tuners can also help you customize settings like when your cooking fan turns on. You shouldn't always play around with the default settings, but anything that gets your power up is fair game. Another benefit of a high-performance tuner is how well it works with aftermarket parts. In fact, if you want all your parts to work together in harmony, uploading an aftermarket tuner is one of the best ways to accomplish that. Teams like the one behind BAMA will take the modifications you've made to the engine into consideration when creating custom tunes. We love this because you can turn measly five to ten horsepower gains from a new cold air intake and exhaust into 20 to 30 horsepower gains with the right racing tune. Whether you need a racing tuner that runs on 93 octane for more power, or you want to read trouble codes with an OEM tuner or OBD-II scanner, plenty of options are available.