If only your opinion was based in facts instead of your wife's "feelings".
Seriously swatski, if you want to keep doing this super-over the top hard sell on a really expensive mod, you need to buy an edit license for one of your engines so you can base your posts on FACTS. $250 and you'd know EXACTLY what was changed in your tune. Short of doing that, your comments on what these canned tunes change is based on feelings and nothing else.
Comments like this that you're making...
"The short answer is no. The one honest hp (power) gain in N/A engine is a tune which takes advantage of higher octane."
I'm going to tell you from my 4 decades of actually doing this stuff for a living that your statement is wrong. For a dozen different reasons it's wrong. What are you basing that statement on? Where is your training or experience to back it up? Who told you that? Or did you simply read it on the internet? Please stop giving advice on things you really don't know anything about.
I'm really not trying to incite a riot or start a war here, I'm simply trying to keep factual information in this forum instead of feelings. FWIW, at one time I personally called Riva for info on their N/A 1.8 tunes. They said "Don't bother". Seriously. (Yes, I have the guy's name that said it.) Here's another fact... This screen shot is from a "canned" tune from a major vendor. This is the timing difference between a bone stock tune and their stage tune. Are changes like this worth ~$1500 for a twin engine boat? Highly intricate and detailed tuning going on there that's for sure. lol.
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@Jgorm you're gonna like this screen shot. hahaha.)
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