I recently purchased some V8 Vantage parts from Roy Mei out of Illinois, who had also sold, separately, his white 2013 V8 Vanatge - VIN SCFEKBAK0DGC17397. If anyone here purchased this please PM me as I have the Velocity AP tuner that is locked to this car and would be happy to send it your way.

 

Great gesture. Hopefully the owner can take advantage of this.

 

I had my hand on the tuner yesterday, so thought I'd give this a bump.
Again, if you are the owner of the white 2013 V8V, with last digits of VIN being 17397, I have the Velocity AP VTec tuner that is locked to your car. From what I can tell, you may have the tune installed on the stock exhaust system, as I purchased the headers, cats and back box.
Ping me and I'll send it out to you.

 

You're saying you installed headers & 200 cell cats on your car? what year is your car ? did you feel big power gains? which headers did you go with?

 

I have a 2015 V8V GT purchased last September with just under 5K miles. I was unaware until I tore into it, but the car had Quicksilver cat deletes installed by PO. The car had a very generous rumble and roar to it... especially with the fuse pulled and with the basic tune from Velocity AP I really enjoyed the throttle response and improved delivery. Not wanting to leave things alone I found a second hand system with fairly low miles for sale that included
- Velocity AP headers
- 100 cell cats (no idea who fabricated them, but cats are from one of the prominent suppliers, just don't remember the name)
- Velocity AP back box (muffler)

I suffered from a bit too much 'while I'm in there'... and added
- Velocity AP airbox delete
- Velocity AP x-pipe

Adding the Velocity Stage 2 tune wrapped things up.

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to change the system out due to competing priorities - work, adult daughter moving back home (even at 24 it's like having a teenager in the house again!) the 911, the Rover, a few Ducati, Laverda, etc... so after many weeks I finished things up just last Sunday.
In prior form I was quite accustomed to, and thrilled with the big rumble and roar, though as some folks suggest it's not too far removed from a Mustang. And I knew with the X-pipe I was going to potentially have diminished aural presence -at first start up I was already thinking of installing a muffler delete system! However, after a shakedown cruise through the neighborhood I took my daughter out for a blast on the freeway heading west of Denver and the new sound is quite fantastic - this may come across as trite, but it's much more 'European', and doesn't leave an impression of being a V8 - rowing through the gears (6 speed!) it absolutely howls and shrieks as you come up through the revs! Instant power - reminding me to order some new tires - and incredibly smooth delivery. Increase in torque is quite noticeable also. I haven't yet put it on a dyno, but can tell you it is quite an impressive set up and feels like a whole new car - power gains are very apparent!

I see you also posted asking about install - I'll send you a PM as well.

 

Giving this old thread a bump again... Short version - I have a Velocity AP tuner for this car and I'm more than happy to get it to the current owner.

 

Where is this Vantage?!

 

Hi folks.
I was moving things around in the garage the other day and came across the tune programmer which reminded me to post up again here. If you own a 2013 V8 Vanatge - VINSCFEKBAK0DGC17397 I have the Velocity AP tune programming device that is locked to this vehicle. Send me a note if you have the car and I can send it to you.
A quick glance online suggested this vehicle may have been in the Marshall Goldman inventory at some point...

 

Figured I'd bump this as it's been almost a year... heh.

 

Sadly, what this means is that there is a Vantage owner out there who's not a member of this forum. Oh, how sad... While not an overwhelming # of posts or members, this is a pretty good group with great insights.

Someday they will stumble across us and connect up!

 

Semi annual bump for this! I still have this tuner floating around the toolbox....

 

So the tuner gets locked to your VIN? The kit can't be re-used by another car? It becomes like E-waste when that car reaches end of life? Thats pretty ****ty business practice.

 

The tune can be password protected by the tuner. I tuned for a dozen years and this was an option I never used and most tuners I know do not do this, at least not anymore. Some tuners did BC they didn't want other tuners to discover their "secret sauce" which is BS BC it's rather simple - Air/Fuel/Ignition. But there are so many nuances to these three elements, that's what tuners were trying to protect.

The real problem here - once a tuner overrides the factory data tables and locks the ECU with a password, no one can access that ECU, not even a dealer. Not that dealers have access to the data tables either, they don't. But if the factory issues a SW update, for example, a locked tune cannot be accessed. The only option I know of is to replace the ECU.

With the PW, (and the hack SW) at least an owner can unlock the tune and make the ECU open again. That way the factory defaults can be reinstalled (but usually only the tuner has those when the custom tune was installed) or, if the factory issues a SW upgrade, the factory tune would be reinstalled.

With the tunes I did, they were customized for that car and dialed in, and wouldn't fit another similar car.