Baloff, as you probably worked out you need the "Super Tuner" SEPST software. Try and get the 2013 version due anytime now as it apparently will have some nice enhancements. You can't upgrade from the existing version to the new one so it's $35 each time. Existing part number 32111-12, so the new vesion will be a -13 part number.

Ballof,
I'm no expert on anything ,but it appears the auto -oem manufacturers-bikes, cars, marine -aren't keen on non -dealer involvement -restricts your options to dealers ,hourly labour rates of $120 + ,a monopoly as it were etc.
Try & get a late model Holden factory workshop manual-I was told they don't exist -dealers only-I think this was to do with some bullshit with ultra tune offering services at cheaper than dealer price & arguing that the customer still had factory warranty.
I'm sure there are forum members who are involved in the trade that can enlighten us all??

Baloff even if you get a dyno tune the software and cables are real handy if you want to clear any codes.

why wouldnt you stay with the SEPST ? good product and if you getting it dyno up why would you change ?

 

Well that brought a smile to me dial,,,,, Man, Vee Dubs and Holden Red motors in EH's .

Them were the intermediate training ground for me before moving on to bigger and better things,,, the need for speed !

 

I can tell now that you've really lived Brother,

There's nuthin ya can't do with a half nine sixteenth open ender, pair of pliers, hammer and a bit of fencing wire.

he he, and just going by memory ya could just about full house a red motor for less than a tuner costs nowadays,,,

well, almost. when ya got into the roller rockers for those babies it started gettin rich. Top end carbies also started ta tickle the pocket a bit too.

(and how could I forget, I'm pretty sure that a couple of the balancing jobs I got Veems ta do cost damn near as much as the donk ta get done)

Then tune it with a bit of 3/8" plastic tube stuck in ya ear, that 1/2 9/16th open ender and a welding rod that ya flattened the end of with the bloody hammer.

(even did the tripple SU's with the old plastic tube till I was rich enough to buy a manometer)

Thank fuck for moving onto V8's with a huge four barrel carbie ,,, or two.

 

I still gotta pull things ta bits ta find out how they work before I'm happy with the workings,

but me thinks that was how I was taught ta learn  ,,, and how's the saying go, ya never stop learning till the day ya die.

Ha Ha, and on that day ya do somthin ya never done before too !,,, I plan on waiting a bit longer for that fucker.

 

Edit:  Geezuz, ya got me goin ya old prick, and I was only just this arvo yakkin to me mate and reminiscing about the exact same stuff.

 

In those days, (fark ! 1969)  the education dept didn't have enough Tech Schools or instructors to make ends meet, so all us blokes ended up in the same classrooms at Tech, Fuel injection fitters, Fitter & Turners, Fitter Machinist, Mechanics, and Tool Makers. 

We all scratched each others backs when it came to utilizing each others ability to get things machined, done, or acquired.

There ended up some pretty fine gear running around under the bonnets of most apprentices cars and on their bikes.

The majority of it hand made by the boys themselves, (not bought from the speed shops as they were called in the day)

Tell ya, ya never seen or heard of a finer set of extractors till ya seen a set of tuned lenght fabricated from 2 inch thick wall copper tubing that had been salvaged from an old steam train boiler !,,, and the twin two inch exhaust system made from the same stuff. 

When the boys did a head up, it wasn't just milled, it was surface ground to a very, very highly polished finish.

Port & Polish had real different meaning back then, and if there wasn't a tool invented for the job ya had ta do, well them good old Tool Makers always came to the party.

25/65 reground Ford and Oldhen cams were a dime a dozen.

Even better, The instructors didn't come fresh out of Uni's, they were all tradesmen that had worked their way through the mill and knew exactly what it was like to be an apprentice,,,,, so most of them were rev heads and were pretty keen to encourage us to bring along our own projects to work on for Tech.,

That got pretty interesting later on in the final years.

(about the time that the Vee Dubs were getting roller crank conversions and giving the Offenhausers a run for their money in the speed-cars at the Speedway)

If I remember rightly there were a few German Instructors as well, and their desire for excellence and precision shone through just as much as their knowledge and experience of all things mechanical. 

The Masters of apprentices were also cool dudes and didn't mind the occasional foreigner to slip through the workshops,,, that were very well equipt.

I'm still convinced that they enjoyed it more than us cause of the way they helped us and covered.

 

By the time we got to the final years of Tech, and some of us went on at Night school, we were quite proficient at blowing up 351 Fords, 450 SEL Mercs,,, and occasionall the only Chassis Dyno that the Education Dept owned.

 

All fckn good fun, and man, whatta way ta learn about it all.

I'm way off topic Baloffski, but hope ya enjoy the yarn and can relate to another old pricks rambling.

SEPST Software is here for download for free on the Harley Web Page

http://prosupertuner.harley-davidson.com/SuperTuner.aspx

Now just learn how to use it

Google "SEPST User Manual"

Yeh mate, I just downloaded it a few days ago from the above link.

Hey Baloff

 

What was the name of the Dyno tech that did your tune at HH?

 

Cheers