Happy new year from EQ!

We have a couple announcements for the new year:

- New Dyno Calibration for 2013+:

After a lot of requests from customers with other makes/models (Corvettes, BMW, GT-R), we have finally decided to change our dyno calibration to read like a Dynojet. While I have resisted this change longer than most, it seems that almost all other shops around the country have abandoned the lower reading Mustang dyno calibrations in favor of the Dynojet standard. In the end, these are all just numbers and it doesn't matter to me if our dyno reads low or high. The gains are always the important part, and of course this does not change any real world performance of any of our builds or tunes. A large part of our job here is to make customers happy, and a lot of people are used to seeing higher numbers, so we decided to do what makes the most people happy in the end.

This new calibration is actually the native calibration for our Dynocom dyno. Previously we were running a .85 correction factor to bring our numbers down to Mustang dyno levels. So now our dyno read approximately 15% higher. If anyone wants to compare your old numbers to our new calibration, simply take your whp number and divide by .85. Furthermore, if you would like an updated dyno chart, I can reprint anyone's previous chart with the new calibration. Please send me an e-mail to request a new chart if you would like.



- EQ welcomes a new addition to our team!

EQ Tuning is proud to announce the addition of Cory Shander to our team. Cory comes to us from Reno where he was owner, tuner, and mechanic of Mayhem Tuning. I've known Cory for nearly 7 years now and trained him to tune Subaru's about 4 years ago. He has since been running a one man business in Reno very similar to how I started out myself.

When we found ourselves swamped with both tuning and mechanical business, I started looking for a new quality employee to help us out and help us to serve our customers more efficiently. I reached out to my known contacts and found out that Cory and his family were interested in re-locating to California. Cory earned a good reputation for him in his area and a good loyal customer base. Over the past 4-5 years Cory has tuned everything from basic setups to wild big turbo builds including his own 10 second STI. He has always referred to me for tuning help and techniques, and most importantly, he shares my meticulous nature when it comes to tuning, so he was an obvious choice for this position. After much consideration, we decided to bring him on board at EQ. He has been working here for a few weeks now and doing a great job all around.

So far Cory has been doing mostly mechanical install and engine work, but I'm also working on further training him and progressing his tuning skills and getting him comfortable with our dyno. Eventually Cory will be helping me out by taking over some of my constantly increasing tuning load so that I can focus more on the bigger projects, expansion to other platforms, as well as general customer service and efficiency of our shop. For the time being, I will be training and overseeing all of his tuning work here and he will be assigned to some of the more basic tunes while I will continue to work on the bigger power cars and projects. I am hoping to have him doing solo tunes within the next 2-3 months, although I will continue to be the final say in quality control and end product just as with everything else that leaves our shop. I have the utmost confidence in Cory's talents and I know he will be able to meet and exceed my expectations in the tuning department.

What this ultimately means for our customers is that we will be able to accommodate more appointments, we will have shorter wait times to make appointments, a more streamlined process for basic installs and tunes, as well as quicker phone, e-mail, and PM responses from me as I have more time to focus on direct customer service. Having a second quality tuner under our roof will really help us serve our customers better all around. Of course having Cory as our third tech will also help immensely with our ever increasing mechanical load as well.

Finally, I would like to thank the community for your continued business and support which has allowed us to continue to expand our shop. We are very proud to serve this community and I'm very happy to see that people appreciate our quality standards and general attention to detail.


Thanks
-- Ed