Arin, I have not spent much time looking at your posts in the past, but after researching a few over the last couple days, I am starting to think that you are obsessed with our company. All this attention...Listing the video as GIAC vs APR,etc, when you know that the AWE-Tuning car has a calibration created exactly to AWE-Tunings specifications for their kit. AWE asked GIAC several times during the calibration process to bring the power down throughout the rev range due to their concerns over EGT's and the longevity of the turbo. Todd from AWE has already alluded to this on other threads after your inflammatory posts. You have ignored them. That's expected as it serves your marketing purpose to do so.
It seems that much of your marketing lately includes GIAC but no other tuner, I can only assume that this is because you view GIAC as the market leader in performance software. You also choose very apples to oranges comparisons, attempting to make your company look good on the GIAC scale.
I don't fault you for trying to improve your company's reputation, in fact, I appreciate your recognition that GIAC products are the ones that you should try to measure up to. If you continue to show this one comparison of a GIAC custom calibration that had client-specified boost limits to the APR calibration with APR-specified boost limits and pass it off as APR potential vs GIAC potential, forum members will begin to wonder why this comparison is so important to you. We do lots of competitive testing of our general release programs vs. other tuners. I have many dyno plots of GIAC vs APR and others that prove that we are offering the best value to our customers. We generally do not publish these without serious provocation. It goes against our company culture to do so.
It appears that you do not subscribe to a similar level of professionalism, so it is curious that you have worked so hard to make the comparison between the GIAC custom program with specific boost and power mandates to your higher boost general release program. Incidentally, we are not against running high boost. We run higher boost on our in house car. As you may or may not know it is easier to put the boost request closer to 2550 than where we have it to meet AWE's requirements. When we release GIAC K04 programs for the TSI platform that are not associated with a specific kit, but sold directly to the GIAC network, GIAC customers will have choices similar those that our FSI customers enjoy. The AWE kit is a good kit that will most likely appeal to the majority of customers that track their cars on road courses, but we will have custom and general release options for dyno shoot-outs and quarter-mile supremacy as well.
Regards,
Andrew.
