Ron,
From looking at the data you just sent me, it appears that the Apten chip made more HP and more torque than the Superchip did on the back to back comparison? Unless I am reading it wrong, that's what the data I just received shows.
There are a few things I wanted to discuss; one is the rather high air/fuel ratio with the Superchip. It is true that you want close to 14.7:1 at part throttle, but not at WOT. Emissions testing are done under load at part throttle, and WOT is not relevant. It is not good to run an engine that lean at WOT, regardless of if it is a race car or street car. That's too lean to make good power either.
When you drop the air/fuel down from the Superchips, the car is actually supposed to make more power and torque. I've been to the dyno a whole lot, and every time it has hit peak power right near the 13.1 - 13.2 range on a naturally aspirated engine.
Your second set of results that you just sent me personally shows what I was expecting to see. You can't take a car to the dyno two different times and expect to see the same results. In theory it should work, but in real life it just doesn't. If you are doing a comparison you have to do them side by side. There are a lot of other factors besides what SAE corrects for that can affect it. SAE does correct for ambient temperature.
Also, on the adaptive learning thing. The reason I wanted you to pull the EEC or reset it would be so you don't have any adaptive tables applying themselves at WOT for the dyno run. If you command a certain air/fuel rate, and the EEC sees a different rate through the 02 sensors, it will put data in the tables to correct that. I was concerned about this because you said you have a Superchip that was not correctly calibrated for your performance. That would cause the adaptive tables to hold some data that could impact the results.
Once those tables have been cleared from your all of your previous driving history, adaptive learning is not a concern for dyno results. There's no need to drive the car either before dyno tuning it. That Is why I believe that you are really seeing the true comparison with the results you didn't post online for this group to read. The posted numbers didn't make sense, and the fact that we made more torque but less HP in your first finding was contradictory to practical math.
I know dyno time is expensive, and that you wanted to get this done quickly. The fastest way to reset the EEC is to simply unplug it from the connector. This clears all adaptive tables, and then you are ready to hit the dyno. You don't need to drive it around first, because the adaptive tables will be empty, and there will be nothing to alter the true performance of your programming.
I apologize for putting so much information in my responses, I would like to see you get the best possible tune on your vehicle. And like I said in the beginning, there is no secret way to make power, it's all in the code. And based on the first comparison and the second, the only one that makes mathematical sense is the second one. But accepting that means that something was inaccurate on the dyno when the first Superchip dyno results were done. There also seems to be a strange low range hp/tq spike on the first Superchips graph you sent us that doesn't make sense either.
I'd like to help you out, and I am more than willing to reflash the chip. But based on what you have given me, I believe you are already seeing a gain. The air/fuel is also almost exactly where we want it too.
Since you didn't put the results of the true side by side comparison in this post, I feel I should do so to let everyone see. This is the side by side dyno results from Ron's test that he sent me. I just put the data in an excel graph similar to his.
Brian
P.S. Some "chip dealers" that sell custom chips really only sell stock diablo or superchip files but throw their own name on it and call it a custom chip. That is one possibility as to why he never responded back when you asked him to customize the coding on your superchip.
