Lidio in Miami - DUW

[Rick-n-Miami]

I'd like to thank my friend and site sponsor Lidio, for taking the time to travel down to Miami, Florida this past weekend; I really enjoyed it!

For those of you who hadn't heard, Lidio spent the last three days soaking up the great South Florida sun (and rain) while personally tuning three Trilogy-equiped and one NA Marauders.

I for one, am thrilled with the new level of performance my car is at, and I'm quite sure the other guys are equally satisfied. Lidio is a great guy to work and hang out with, and certainly knows his stuff! I had no idea my car had this much power potential; it's simply amazing work!

Here are a few pictures of the tuning event infront of my house:

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Three Trilogy Marauders parked in my driveway (never thought I'd see that!)


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Dennis (Hotrauder) and Eggie (Malo03) overlooking the day before's mods.


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A close-up of Dennis's engine bay.


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Lidio thinking through Eggie's tune.


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Eggie hard at work overlooking the install of his shinny new pulley (see the coffee and donut in hand).


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The new pulley is on!



I didn't think to bring my camera to the "testing area", but there is a new layer of blacktop laid down in an industrial park in west Miami. I'm sure it would have made a great shot :)

Lidio, thanks again for the great time and great work! Also, a great thanks to my fellow SSM members who gave a great showing at the unofficial Tower Shoppes meet the other night for Lidio!

[captJ696]

Wow, talk about cool, two thumbs up for Lidio:2thumbs:

[Hotrauder]

Rick, Great job putting this together. I know you are really pleased with your tune and if Ford Motor Company President Bill Ford could drive this car he would be building them again next month. This car is so smooth and the performance so seamless that the power is secondary. Not secondary power by any means but the power delivery is so well modulated that my 85 year old mother is comforable driving the car at WOT. Priceless to see the grin on her face. She never had a car that could chirp the tires much less burn the rears up right now. Lidio was thorough, thoughtful, persistent and fun to be with. Applying his aptly titled "ASS TUNE" to my Marauder rocks. I am especially grateful to Lidio because he had to miss his 3 daughter's Father/Daughter dance to be with us. Thanks Lidio, Thanks Rick and thanks to Rick Sr. who did the wrenching on the pulley swaps, played host and all around great guy and car buudy and to Mrs. Rick, Sr. (Cathy)who did a supercharged job with hospitality and coffee and DONUTS. Dennis:2thumbs: nice pics, Rick, thanks. I recommend this to anyone who wants peak performance from their Marauder.

[CRUZTAKER]

Lidio does house calls now?

I knew I should have bought property somewhere sunny....:depress:

[jstevens]

True, True. Only expect the best from Lidio.

A first class person through and through.

[StevenJ]

Yeah I second that. Thanks Lido for the technical advice. I'll make sure to install gears before a toqrue convertor and also thanks for letting me know that denso plugs aren't worth getting. It was great to meet you at the Tower Shops.

[rayjay]

Thats pretty cool, did you guys use a dyno? Love the Trilogy DTR :up: , maybe someday...

[Smokie]

Congratulations to all on your power gains, was there a dyno involved in this type of tuning?

[MaLo03]

WOW!
Thank you Mr. Lidio for your fine workmanship and professionalism. My MM is a whole new ANIMAL!
Thanks to Mama-Rick-n-Miami and Papa-Rick-n-Miami for there hospitality and of course Rick for setting this up.
The new released power is awesome.

[03marauder99vic]

You didn't invite the grand marquis owner from next door?:nono:


:D

[Rick-n-Miami]

Well, that's not next door... it's my mom's GM :)

[BK_GrandMarquis]

Wow, that's so cool!!! Was he there for something else and dropped by to tune your cars on the side or was he scheduled just to see you guys?

[MI2QWK4U]

Its great Lidio could take care of your cars like he is known for. I never take it for granted that Lidio is 5 minutes away. Simply stated he is the best at what he does, very low key, willing to risk his own vehicles to push the evelope, never a customers car. Talk about benefiting from that experience, I know that I, and probably eveyone here in Michigan owes a huge debt of gratitude for taking care of us. You guys just got a taste, good isnt it!

[Hotrauder]

Its great Lidio could take care of your cars like he is known for. I never take it for granted that Lidio is 5 minutes away. Simply stated he is the best at what he does, very low key, willing to risk his own vehicles to push the evelope, never a customers car. Talk about benefiting from that experience, I know that I, and probably eveyone here in Michigan owes a huge debt of gratitude for taking care of us. You guys just got a taste, good isnt it!

It is the best. A modest, thoughtful and generous man who will share with everyone the benefit of his knowledge and experience. My upgrades were small and my financial investment modest but Lidio spent over 2 and a half hours driving in my car making adjustments and burning changes into chips. This was far more comprehensive in my opinion than a dyno in that real world, in traffic and PRIVATE RACE TRACK driving from standing start to max at WOT were data logged and multiple times and chips were burned at least 7 or 8 times. Including one for something Lidio felt on the drive back to Rick's that I was totally unaware of. The tune session involved over 50 miles of test and tune driving. I of course helped immensly. I held the laptop and said. "OH YA!" lots of times. The improvement over the stock Trilogy is tremendous... and the Stock Trilogy tune was a 1000% improvement over the SCT 9100 tune I originally had. For anyone on the fence now is the time to jump. Life is short. Dennis:beer:

DISCLAIMER: I paid for the opportunity to brag up Lidio. My only compensation is his friendship and the performance of my car. Priceless.:D

[Warpath]

Its great Lidio could take care of your cars like he is known for. I never take it for granted that Lidio is 5 minutes away. Simply stated he is the best at what he does, very low key, willing to risk his own vehicles to push the evelope, never a customers car. Talk about benefiting from that experience, I know that I, and probably eveyone here in Michigan owes a huge debt of gratitude for taking care of us. You guys just got a taste, good isnt it!

x2 :banana2:

[BruteForce]

I wish Lidio would go on tour and visit some of us "isolated" folks.

This is a page out of the ISF HD-TV calibrators method. I've had my big screen calibrated by one of the top folks this way. They arrange a schedule to fly around the country based on getting X number of "tunes" in a particular city. The folks getting the tunes pay a fee that includes an equal share of the tuner's travel expenses. Something to think about...

[jdando]

I wish Lidio would go on tour and visit some of us "isolated" folks.



I wonder what it would take to get Lidio to vist MN in February :lol:

I think my only choice is to drive to Michigan in August:banana:

jeremy "enjoying the quality of life in MN"

[94_302]

Rick, thats awsome you got your tune done by Lidio. Your car was just too slow before :D j/k I really can't imagine what it's like now, I still get a smile on my face thinking about my first ride in a blown Marauder :bows:.

[Lidio]

This is the second time I’ve flown out of state to tune MM’s and I have to say its been a great time, I’ve met some very nice people and above all paid some bill’s during the time of the year/season when my shop and dyno aren’t very busy here when the Michigan winters are in full tilt.
You guys in the warmer climates keep this sh?t up any longer with me and I swear I’m gona have to move to TX or FL soon.

On Friday while I was in FL this past weekend at the “Towers” I was taken to a car cruise with several of the MM guys, plus a ton of other very nice rides and then a great dinner later on. But what killed me the most was the fact that this was first weekend of February!!! Here in MI, all the out door car happenings are pretty much done in mid to late October and really don’t kick back in till for the most part late April early May. Are you kidding me!!! Car cruises and car hang outs and drag racing pretty much all year round except for X-mas!!! And lets not kid our selves… we or at least I’d be drag racing on Christmas eve if the tracks were open.

But truthfully I’d be one broke-ass bich with the amount of cars I own…. If I could race, insure, hurt, and just plain drive and abuse them all year long.
It really, really does gives us where the winters are some what harsh: some thing to look forward to during our cold season in hopes and expectations of an early, dry and cool spring.

It all started with my trip out to TX back in early December… this is what primed me and built up the confidence that I can do this on the road. I’ve made the decision that for right now I’m gona do this twice a year during my winter months. I figure I’ll do one trip in late November/early December and one in late January/early February. These have turned out to be optimal times to break away from the shop and not disrupt to much from the family and holiday season.

This past weekend, Rick-in-Miami orchestrated the whole thing, was a great host and made the whole thing very easy for me and what appeared to be easy as well for the other 3 MM’s that also got tuned. From the looks of it, because of how complete I like to be, and how extensively I like to test drive (especially the automatic cars). I think I’m only gona do no more then four or five cars at a time with this “fly me in” custom tunes like this past weekend if others might be interested in doing this. I think if I do less then a minimum of three it simply won’t be cost effective for me and the customers. I don’t simply make a few pulls on the dyno and then say “ship it”. There is a lot more to this then WOT on a chassis dyno. Once you know what’s safe for a giving combination for a tune, then what comes out at the rear wheels is simply information on a paper. If you know what the safest spark and A/F are for a certain application. There is no reason to lean on it on a dyno just for bragging rights. As I’ve said before and others might agree: big numbers at the rear wheels is a decent reference. “Show me a time slip”. This is where it all come out.. ET and MPH !! Today people use chassis dyno numbers like an ET slip. I own a chassis dyno and know better.

The reason I say this about the dyno thing is because this past weekend we didn’t make it to a chassis dyno at all with any of the cars I tuned. It simply fell through because the dyno guy had no working brakes on the dyno. So I said: no go on this one. But had we made it onto the dyno I wouldn’t have adjusted a thing after monitoring and adjusting it all on the street in the real world tugging a 4700+lbs car with two and some times three people in it. What they made at the rear wheels is what they would have made.
I watched and data logged the A/F with a real A/F meter put into the exhaust before the cats... and data logged the timing and many other parameters. Once I had these where I want them and felt safe with on the street, what happens from there on a chassis dyno is simply a reference. This is how safe tunes are really accomplished, especially with the MM’s. The DynoJet does not subject a MM to the load it sees in the real world.


Any way feel free to PM or the others I’m sure wont mined that got tuned, and I’m open to a visit any where else for this sort of thing this coming late fall.

Thanks and it was a pleasure meeting every one this past weekend.

[oldekid]

How special is that?. . . . . what a guy! :beer:

[Cobra25]

Lidio it was a pleasure meeting you at The Tower Shop's and Having dinner with you. You made a number of our members here very happy by coming down and tuning their cars. They all are very happy with their new tune's. Now Malo03 (Eggie) is so happy I don't think I'll here the end of it, how well his car perform's Now ! If you ever do move down here I'm sure your will be very busy all the time. Any how I hope you stay was a good one and your always welcome Here.

[Warpath]

Well, I keep threatening to bring my Cobra back in to you Lidio. But, I figure I'll get to it when I get to it. If you're moving south, I may have to get to it sooner. ;)