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How safe is the Hondata base tune?

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I do not have the base tune any longer, but I did have my car jail broken and tuned since about 14 k miles and it now has 45 k miles. No issues. I did end up getting jester to tune my car about 500 miles after the base tune. I did not have any issues with the base but power delivery was not very smooth; the tune provided by Jester was leaps and bounds better. I would strongly encourage having a custom tune done by one of the tuners after you get the base tune.
Yeah I was looking at phearable stage 2, but the hondata event isn't local to me so I'll be road tripping back home on the base tune. Just want to make sure it's safe. I know lots of people use it longer term but I've also read some things about it running lean etc.
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Yeah I was looking at phearable stage 2, but the hondata event isn't local to me so I'll be road tripping back home on the base tune. Just want to make sure it's safe. I know lots of people use it longer term but I've also read some things about it running lean etc.
You’ll be fine driving home with it. It does run lean but won’t hurt anything from what I have seen. But def would recommend a better tune after…way better.
 

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You’ll be fine driving home with it. It does run lean but won’t hurt anything from what I have seen. But def would recommend a better tune after…way better.
Dang I wonder why they would make it run lean? Is it dangerously lean?
 

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Yeah I was looking at phearable stage 2, but the hondata event isn't local to me so I'll be road tripping back home on the base tune. Just want to make sure it's safe. I know lots of people use it longer term but I've also read some things about it running lean etc.
The Hondata 91 base map definitely does not run lean, it runs rich if anything. The 93 map is leaner for sure but not unsafe in any way, in fact it is much closer to the target AFR you would see on one of the better OTS tunes or even custom tune. If you are worried about it, just run the 91 map and you will be more than fine.
 

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The Hondata 91 base map definitely does not run lean, it runs rich if anything. The 93 map is leaner for sure but not unsafe in any way, in fact it is much closer to the target AFR you would see on one of the better OTS tunes or even custom tune. If you are worried about it, just run the 91 map and you will be more than fine.
Ended up not getting jailbroken. The hondata guys decided to do the event early without notifying anyone so I drove 4 hours for nothing haha. I'll be taking this as a sign and probably won't be tuning it for the foreseeable future. I was on the fence anyways
 

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Ended up not getting jailbroken. The hondata guys decided to do the event early without notifying anyone so I drove 4 hours for nothing haha. I'll be taking this as a sign and probably won't be tuning it for the foreseeable future. I was on the fence anyways
Oh damn! That's pretty shitty, I'm sorry man. You could always do a remote jailbreak if you wanted to have it tuned without having to ship your ECU off anywhere. That's what I was going to do until I saw last minute they were coming to Phoenix so I did that instead.
 

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Oh damn! That's pretty shitty, I'm sorry man. You could always do a remote jailbreak if you wanted to have it tuned without having to ship your ECU off anywhere. That's what I was going to do until I saw last minute they were coming to Phoenix so I did that instead.
Yeah it was shitty and kinda soured me on the whole thing. Maybe I'll look into the remote jailbreak
 
 







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