I would recommend thoroughly reading through https://www.civicx.com/threads/joined-the-ktuner-world.34484/ This is where I got most of my information on the Ktuner before I bought mine. Having never tuned my old Civic Si this was all new to me and I did not want to screw my car up. After a lot of research I purchased it and I can say it is definitely worth the $. It completely wakes the car up and makes it more fun to drive. My car is a daily so I do not beat on it and redline it every chance I get. My commute is about 20 minutes with about 15 minutes of hwy travel. It makes merging and passing all the more fun since the boost will pick up. Sometimes I will stick it in Map 3 on the way home at night when there isn't a lot of traffic and step on the gas just cause it's fun. I haven't had any issues. Granted I have only had it for about a month so I can't speak for long term, but I have been following the advice of the people on these forums. Most of this advice is common sense and things I have been doing for years with any manual transmission car, such as downshifting and don't WOT in 5th or 6th gear at low RPM's. Actually I think general consensus is at any gear at low rpm's. If you are like me and are worried about keeping the car running and you don't race your car and abuse the shit out of it, I think the clutch should hold up. I run it on Map 2 in Normal mode full time and only kick on sport when I feel like getting to speed quick. Only hit Map 3 a couple of times and even then I did a 2nd to 4th gear pull to put this guy to shame cause he was trying real hard to race me and I felt the full power kicking in with no clutch slippage.
Thanks for tagging that thread. I started to look into ktuner only after that thread. I like the way he described everything. My only fear is long term reliability of the car if I flash custom tune for opening up the performance capability of the car. I agree that sooner or later a car will need a clutch but replacing clutch at 100k miles is different than replacing@20k . Currently, my car is sitting close to 9k. Already bought K-Tuner and itching to try it out by flashing but worried to pull the trigger
As the author of that thread and being tuned with TSP stage 1 for over 7 months and over 10k miles I can tell you it's safe for your clutch as long as you 1) don't frequently use map 3 in sports mode and 2) don't wot in 5th or 6th gear at low speed/RPM or in any gear for that matter if you are below 2500 RPM.
You didn't say anything about ktuner or tsp . Are you saying that I need to stay with stock tune and enjoy with throttle modulation
Are those setting in map-3 of tsp stage1?
Cool! I will look into it. I don't want to disable rev hang as @amirza786 mentioned in his thread its gonna make the drive harsher or bad
For spirited driving rev hang disable is the bomb. Disable it in the quick adjustment settings and if you want rev hang just enable the cruise control main...rev hang in all its glory is there.
Did you use map 3 often?
Yes.
Disagree w what he said. If you end up needing a clutch, then get it. But i would never buy a clutch first to go to a tsp stg 1 map.Yes.
Note that if you want to run this tune on your stock clutch, don't go over map 2 , it will save you some time. Maybe just the time you save money for a clutch swap later on
I ran map 2 for couple months , i had to issues , but as soon as i started to run on map 3 , the clutch started to slip ( which is understandable ) , even if i was careful to not go WOT before 4k rpms , in every gear.
From my point of view, don't get the TSP Stage 1 tune if you don't have an aftermarket clutch. I don't see the point of running their tune if you don't go to map 3, as its their most powerful and fun map to drive.
My two cents
