Good tuner for ECM and TCM on 2016 6.2 8 speed

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Im looking for tuner to disable AFM and a few other things, on my 2016 Yukon Denali 8 speed. Later on after my extended warranty expires ill do some heavy mods to the engine.
I was thinkin HP tuners, Black Bear EFI live or Diablosport. Any of these good and easy to use or any other one out there
 

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I chose a Black Bear performance tune, and I'm completely satisfied.

I don't know if this is industry standard for tuners, but Black Bear's policy of giving you free updates to your tune for the life of your truck, after you add new mods to the truck, is really convenient. Something as simple as changing tire heights, which can cause the speedometer to be inaccurate, can and will be corrected by Black Bear with a tune update.

IMO, you cannot go wrong with Black Bear.
 

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Im looking for tuner to disable AFM and a few other things, on my 2016 Yukon Denali 8 speed. Later on after my extended warranty expires ill do some heavy mods to the engine.
I was thinkin HP tuners, Black Bear EFI live or Diablosport. Any of these good and easy to use or any other one out there
We would be happy to help with a tune. We would tune your vehicle via our AutoCal, it will allow us to see your vehicle data and provide your custom tunes via email. Whenever you are ready give us a call 877-809-4070. Thanks!
 
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So with blackbear autocal i dont do any tunings, blackbear make file, send it to me and i just reflash or i can makes changes by my self on autocal. Im trying figureout is autocal handheld or laptop only ??
 

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Bumping an old thread but I recently got my 16 xl denali tuned in person by Chuck at Corvettes of Westchester.
Absolutely love the truck. Throttle difference is night and day

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Good to know.

Is it a one-time tune, or will they re-tune it for free, each time that you add a future mod?
 

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Chuck will retune if youre unhappy with the outcome first time around. Similar to what i think blackbear does with online tunes (at least what I gathered from reading posts, have no personal experience with a blackbear tune).
As for future mods I think there's an additional cost to retune.

I got an AFE stage 2 intake prior to tuning so he dialed in everything pretty good. If I were to get headers later on I'd probably pay and get a retune from him.

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I have HP Tuners and only did a trans tune and it was amazing. With Intake and Gibson exhaust and tune I dropped .7 seconds off my 0-60 time and now with the air off I get rubber in second. If anybody is interested I can send a copy of my HP tuners file.
 

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does the trans have a slight hesitation right before the harder shift ?

i tuned my 2011 and had this, the solenoid timing was slightly overlapped, and needed to adjust to correct before issues.
 

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I have HP Tuners and only did a trans tune and it was amazing. With Intake and Gibson exhaust and tune I dropped .7 seconds off my 0-60 time and now with the air off I get rubber in second. If anybody is interested I can send a copy of my HP tuners file.
Do you still have the tune and willing to send? I have a 2017 5.3 with the 6 speed.
 

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