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Tunes by Chuck

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About Me


I founded Houston based Horsepower Engineering (HPE) in 2004.
I schedule tuning events worldwide. Contact me if you'd like me to come to your local spot and tune cars for locals in your area who need their setup to run the way it's supposed to.
Typical tuning prices depend on the location and number of cars, but usually vary from 250-450 per car (for 5 or more cars).
Contact information:
Phone: 832-202-4115 (call or text)
Email: [email protected]
AOL: chucks97ss
Yahoo: chucks97ss
MSN: [email protected]
I tune everything from bone stock LS1's to radical highly modified blown and juiced LS7's making 900-1000 rwhp.
All my tunes focus first and foremost on driveability. The more you do to your car the more work it takes to get driveability just right. This is what I strive to make perfect for you, because you're the one who has to drive the car every day. So I make sure all my tunes have the quality built into them that GM would use and accept if they mass produced your vehicle to the nation.
Most "tuners" focus on WOT. Which is very important, but anybody can get WOT right with a little practice and a wide band. Driveability takes a lot more experience and practice. After tuning close to 2000 LSx based vehicles, I feel I have both :)
Cammed out LS1's firing up and holding idle without surging is my mission. Smooth power delivery at all throttle positions is my goal. Clean power with no detonation is what you will get when I tune your car.
I can't tell you how many times I've put cars tuned by other "reputable" tuners on our dyno and seen nothing but plumes of smoke and detonation out the tailpipes. A tune that I'm sure made an "ideal" 12.5-12.8:1 a/f ratio on the other guys dyno! This is the reason I do not tune with a wideband. Cars can detonate at 12.5-12.8:1 just like they can detonate at 11.0:1! There is no particular targeted air fuel ratio to shoot for. It's all whatever your motor wants. And these demands are different at different RPM's also! Maybe your car runs best with 11.5:1 a/f at 5000 rpm and 13.5:1 at 6500 rpm. That's something you usually won't read on the internet!
I make YOUR combination work the way it's supposed to. Not the way some keyboard warrior on the internet thinks it's should be.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

You and your car!

My Blog

Letting go

Something I wrote in November after all that stuff happened to me at HPE.In life, we are trained to be defensive people. To guard what isrightfully ours, and fight for the privileges given to us froma...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:06:00 GMT

coping with other peoples bad decisions

Sometimes doesn't it seem like that's what we're always doing? Aren't we always dealing with something, someone else fucked up? I mean seriously! That's all I think life is about lately. And people...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:01:00 GMT

After losing a friend...

When you lose one of your best friends, it makes you realize how real Heaven is, and how much you look forward to being there some day. It makes me jealous that my buddy Mike is up there having all th...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 20:39:00 GMT

A little word to the wise

Why do they call it a word to the wise? Should it be the other way... meh, whatever I'm not that wise, I just get a lot of the same questions over and over again, so I thought I'd throw this up for th...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:27:00 GMT

A little about me

I'm a pretty honest guy. Not your typical douche bag who's full of himself and constantly flexing his muscles. I mean I know I have great muscles, but I'm at least humble about them! I just don't like...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:54:00 GMT

If you want to get into this business....

A lot of people ask me what it takes to get into this business... First off, it takes a lot of know how. I've been messing around with high performance since i was 12. Been tuning efi since I was 16. ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:52:00 GMT

My opinion on headers and header coatings

One of the biggest things I look for on header design is the type of collectors they use. Most of the normal header company's that have been in the business for years, like to cut corners and use the ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:51:00 GMT

I will help you sell your car

I've been having a lot of people ask me to post their cars for sale lately since I have such a wide network of people reading my bulletins. I don't mind doing this, just email me detailed information ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:43:00 GMT

Some Customers!

I can't believe I just spent over 20 minutes on the phone with a guy talking about cold air intakes..HIM: So what's better? The Callaway or the Vararam?ME: Personally I like the Vararam better.HIM: Wh...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:21:00 GMT

Customer letter

I got this letter today from a customer. Rare to get someone to email you why they do business with you... So thanks Craig!As I have said before, I am an engineer, and yes, we are weird. I research t...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:46:00 GMT