The Comeau Files The Comeau Files Hello everyone, I am sure some of you are thinking, where are the mynes guys and why they are not here defending against members who are not even customers or would ever be in the first place right? Well the answer is that we are busy and have a business to run. First thing first, I would like to address this huge lie of an issue coming from Mr. Alex Comeau (checkmate2006) from Kansas with all this propaganda from the far extreme with help from RMW to help with this extreme bashing and slander. Let's start with the history and how Mr.Comeau got in contact with us. My memory comes to me that he found us through a mutual friend/customer from Arizona. I think at the time, we have already relocated to California at the Lake Forest location, correct me if I am wrong. He wanted a tune and complained how much he dislikes RMW and he couldn't tune his mini correctly etc etc... I hear this all the time, and it goes through one of my ears and out the other. The car comes to the shop in Lake Forest, CA along with our mutual friend/customer. We strap it down on the dyno. Do some base pulls... (Now I've heard from the grapevine what I am about to say... Mr.Comeau 100% denies now and short term memory like most Americans do.) While doing the base pulls before any tuning his engine had some blow by and it did in fact smoke up the shop while on the dyno. Even the mutual friend/customer was there and can contest to this as Mr.Comeau denies. I told Mike, I don't think we should tune this car, because if this engine is burning oil in whatever cylinder it is...this can cause premature detonation under extreme operating conditions. Mike and I decided to let him know as he was standing right there the whole time seeing and smelling all this blue/white smoke and while on the dyno and revving out it sounded like it was going to blow.I laughed and said "Alex, this engine is going to blow" His response...."He knows the engine is on it's way out and I've already spoken to Hubie about a engine rebuild... So if it goes, I want a built engine" Now this is the kicker... before I started to tune his ECU, of course a tuner would read out the ROM first for backup. Guess what, we ran into some communication problems. I had to retry and retry and finally, the ECU allowed the read. Once I read out the ROM. Our software...make sure you listen here forum members...there was no Bytetronik of FA53 out at this time. The kicker...Alex Comeau never had Bytetronik software in his ECU, because at the time in that year... it didn't exist. We used EcuFlash,EVC, and Byteshooter. The Ecuflash version is what we used to read out his ECU and to save the file for backup. Once we did that...as we were still under development... I noticed that our Ecuflash version for mini did not have his software version settings file or xml. And plus he was running an old version of the Siemens VDO EMS5150 software. We have an Autologic, and I inquired that to do a software update. Then when trying to initialize the update, we came into another communication problem as the Autologic checks and queries the IKE (Instrument Cluster) ECU to get coding data, mileage and the gateway to the EWS (Immobilizer).We could not communicate with his vehicle and had to abort this update due to some wiring issues in his car. May I add, he wired up a AIM Dash display himself... maybe he cut some incorrect wires or something. Now this puts a monkey wrench in getting a update to the newest software version so I can use the Ecuflash version of our own software. The newer version of the software, we have the setting file/xml for mapping with our own software, but not for his older version just yet. So I had to open up another program, and I am sure some of you have heard of EVC WinOLS. With this piece of software we use the ROM emulator as we were doing development work in finding maps and testing whilst the engine is running. Within EVC WinOLS you can import a csv file into which have map address and scalings. So when you open a ROM into it and run this file, it would read your file and find all the maps within your file. In this set up I have his older version file list within EVC WinOLS but I haven't yet implemented into our software yet. No big deal, so I mapped his engine with EVC WinOLS and used Byteshooter to flash the tune file into his ECU. So his first tune, was not and never on Bytetronik...let's move on. Engine tuned, he drives it and loves it. And I reminded him, about his motor not healthy with all that oil burning.Guess what forum members, motor went....That's exactly what happened. Did he post anything negative towards us for tuning his car and made it blow up from a bad tune at that time....The answer is no! He was full aware of it. Now...he takes his own engine apart because I think he wants to learn as much as possible about his mini. It's nothing wrong with that at all. But when you do that, make sure you can put it all back together. Well long story short, he ships the car to ABF in Lake Forest,CA in pieces for Hubie to do a complete rebuild with forged pistons. Now that is the end of the first tune that he claims was a bad tune and melted a piston. Second motor Ordeal Hubie finishes motor, break it in. Calls me to come tune it. At this time, I am tuning with our Ecuflash version software now. Still Bytetronik FA53 is not out yet, because this is still 2010 and FA was released in Jan 2011, he never had FA. So any ways, tune the car. Tune is good,as he stands right there watching us tune it along with Chase and Colin...yes RMW Colin! he drives car and happy. Drives home, follow up, still happy. Drives all over the country even to MTTS, the Dragon etc. He's having issues with blow by and misfiring problems. Mike tries to help him trouble shoot as he posted. Checks compression, and it's low. But still drives it and race people including Chase and Colin and bragged about beating them both. See him at the Dragon and he told me he is having some issue with misfiring on cyl 3 and low compression. I made a joke and said..."Geez you messed that engine up already?" Anyways I told him I would look at it for him while I was there as I was helping out at the Sprintex booth. But...get this... He's hanging with Mr. RMW and Colin at the Dragon and was pretty much around that booth the whole 3 days I was there. I noted to my brother... I'll give this guy 1 month to come up with some crap hanging out those guys. Guess what... This thread!!! lol He contacts Mike, and ask him for a full refund of the tunes and put his ECU back to stock. Mike agreed to putting his ECU back to stock, but not on a full refund. Mike asked him, "Do you think we rent out tunes?" I guess he didn't like that answer.. So here we go again... This Thread! lol Now any person can look at the pictures of his built engine and can see, there is no melted piston and no signs of detonation from a bad tune.Hubie has offered him new piston rings and I guess he declined that offer. Oh wait, let me copy and paste this from our forum. I have a little write up over there about my meeting with Hubie today 11/23/2011 and this is what I wrote: Just talked with Hubie 5 minutes ago in person as he just dropped by, and he told me he did talk with Alex after his serial posting over all the forums. And found out he was measuring the pistons clearance above the wrist pin (idiot) and also Alex said that the rings gaps were too big. So Hubie asked him what was the clearance and does he has a feeler gauge to measure them. Alex replied, he doesn't have a feeler gauge. So Hubie asked him how does he know that the ring gaps are too big. Alex replied that he assumed since the piston clearance was too big. But Alex doesn't know that you have to measure the piston clearance from the skirts of the pistons, which are below the wrist pin. So Hubie asked him why is posting stuff like this and you are not even using the correct tools to measure these parts. Hubie also offered to send him replacement piston rings once he gets the correct piston clearances and cylinder clearances. But Alex does not have the tools to do this. So Hubie ask him why doesn't send the block and parts to a machine shop to check everything. Alex replies "I don't know" this kid has no idea what he is doing, and who is advising him doesn't even know as well. Now for the tune... Hubie told me that Alex doesn't really know if the tune was bad or not. So Hubie asked him why is he posting stuff up about the engine or tune. And Alex replies that he was upset and plus he thinks the tune was bad because it melted a piston before and it must be a bad tune. But Alex must have short-term memory because I told him that his motor was on his way out because it was smoking a lot on the dyno just getting base pulls. But it was my mistake even giving him a tune in the first place with the engine smoking and me knowing when a cylinder is consuming oil would cause premature detonation under extreme engine operation. But he insisted and was going to be buying an engine rebuild from Hubie once his engine goes. And that was exactly what he did, until now he changes his story to make us look like the bad guys of giving him a bad tune. I told Hubie this today, he wants a stroker engine from RMW, and I guess he gets a discount coupon to slander the both of us. To you Alex, I wish you luck on your new engine and tune. And hopefully when something goes wrong, you don't keep dragging on your engine and racing people knowing something is wrong. I am pretty much done with this, and everyone here can continue to bash and slander, I have work to do and orders to fill. Let's move on to the next subject.......below Now this is the most funniest thing ever heard. I hear that RMW tells people we blew tons of EVOs. Ok...where? Where are these EVOs we have blown up. This is the same story that Rick at Boostec told us what Jan said about us when he first got involved with the whole Sprintex superchargers. He told Rick, that we moved from Arizona to California to get away from all the EVOs we have blown up. I was laughing my butt off, I am like, where???? Does he have a name of this fictitous person, the color and year of this evo or evos, the last 7 digits of the VIN number or something??? I said to myself, typical Jan...lol Now this is another funny one... He says that FA changes your tune while you drive. Ok....lol let me get this straight... The ECU has 64k of calibration ROM memory area. While the ECU's CPU is reading that area to run the car. It erases your flash and write some bogus values in it's place.... But the engine still runs even though the memory was erased??? He is so smart, because first, that is impossible to erase something that the CPU is reading in ROM and write back with out interruption. Second, the flashing code would not allow this, Third, the 64K sector in memory has to be completely erased and rewritten even if you are only changing 1 byte. That just shows you that this guy is out of touch and would do anything or say anything to make someone look bad. But only making himself look really dumb in the process. Now let's get to the FullAccess and it's meaning... Because you guys have came up with some stuff was pretty funny...I'm telling you...lol ByteTronik FullAccess FA53 - The meaning of FullAccess does not mean you have full control of your stock ECU. It means that you have full access to 35 maps on the end user version and close to 250 maps on the dealer version. Full access means you have access to your ecu 24/7 365 days a year. Full Access means you can tune or get your ecu tuned when ever you like and you don't have to wait for anyone. Full Access means you can eating dinner, and tuning your mini can cross your mind... and you can jump up off the table, grab your laptop and Miniport and flash your car at your convenience. Carry on guys, Happy Thanksgiving! Jay
OMG... Happy Thanksgiving back to y'all!! Thanks for setting the story in the correct direction!! Thanks for again, spouting a truthful report on a RMW/Boyz attempt to distort and slam others. Thanks for.... lol, just being truthful!! Just me............................... Thumper oh..PS: Happy Thanksgiving to all..
why is Jan always involved when someone blows their motor yet had nothing to do with it? Strange don't you think?
Again, this is NOT a tuner A vs tuner B thread and comments to suggest that it is are way off base. There are some out there that will try to make it as so but it is not. If your tactic is to keep on that path to get this thread locked it will not happen. What will happen is that others will see just how petty you really are.
Damn...I have a migraine after reading this thread & I haven't even broken the seal on the Wild Turkey yet! So much info...so glad I have a Justa....
I know my word counts for pretty much nothing around here, but for what it's worth, over the last two years, Mike and Jason have done everything right by me. My V2 headers are trouble-free (no leaks, just passed a smog check, sound awesome, work well) and the Mynes tune is two years old with not a single hiccup. I had a misfire once - I took care of it immediately. A casual inspection led to the discovery of a broken valve spring, certainly not a product of Mynes' work.
Look out you now have a target on your back, you said something good about Mynes. This story reminds me of a car Steve rebuilt last year, Endyne BV head, forged pistons,..ect...ect..ect. Tells the kid, " you need to break it in before you hammer it", what does he do.....he hammers it leaving the driveway :eek6: A few months later....he comes in with engine problems and a smoked clutch :frown2:
I knew there was another side to the story and am glad a Mynes representative chimed in here. I understand the OP is pissed because he spent a mountain of cash on his car but can now surmise that Mynes did NOT play the evil scoundrel here sounds like they made a error in judgement ie: tuning an engine that was not healthy in the first place but the way I see this is the OP played a big part in his own dilemma.
I say we take all this drama to the Judge Judy. :idea: Jan had nothing to do with this motor issue and all you Mynes fanboi's pulled him into it. Its ok to defend your tuner but any tuner worth a gain of salt would not have tuned a dying motor on it way out. (White and Blue smoke) Unless they needed the cash and knew they would be getting to rebuild a while new motor very soon. It is the tuners reputation on the line for whatever they do to a car and in this case Jason / Mynes should have turned away the business until the car was completely error and problem free before they tuned it the very first time. The second motor should have had no problems if it was built, broken in and tuned correctly BEFORE it was returned to the customer.
Good story bro...but again it has nothing to do with what happened here. The attempts here to make the OP out to be the bad guy by the tuner & his "hitmen" clearly sent to troll this thread seems to be par for the course. The incoherent & barely readable "explanation" given by the tuner doesn't exactly answer the questions raised by the OP, IMO.
Well bro....when the OP said this in the very first post, "To conclude I put a lot into my car I feel sorry for those who have bought or done business with Mynes Performance/Myne’s Tuning/Bytetronik or ABF Performance. If you have been tuned by Mynes or through bytetronik you better save up for a new motor because your going to be needing one. I encourage anyone who has had issues of any degree when dealing with Mynes or ABF Performance to come forward. All this keeping quiet is for the birds anymore. Something needs to be done. No one should be silent any longer." He completely opened this thread to anyone who has had any dealings with Mynes. And I think you need to reread Jays post again, as it seems that the OP did flog his car after he knew of potential problems. Again I will say, it is a major bummer what happened to him, but it does seem some of this could have been prevented with some common sense and restraint.
Jim just because you drive like a grandma doesn't mean the rest of us do. End of the day regardless of what jason told him he took his money and tuned it. That makes him responsible.
:lol: whatever dude. That's why I have a 8k rev limit :ihih: ON STOCK INTERNALS, WITH A BYTETRONIK TUNE! Oh And I do believe Jay did say he made a mistake in allowing the first tune, but I can imagine you two guys standing there saying "ah come on it's cool". All the OP had to say was, "dude maybe we should wait." But then again, he drove a known smoking car all the way from Kansas to California, to get a tune....would you or anyone else say, "ahh...let's wait"?
Honestly, I can't believe you all are not tired of all this drama. As a moderator I have to read all this crap and at this point it puts me to sleep faster than when my wife tries to explain to me the European tax laws.
Yeah common sense and restraint from the Tuner to tune any car when it was 100 % not healthy to begin with. Jason / is not God and for that matter neither is Jan but come on ....tune a badly smoking car that filled the shop with smoke. Realy the Kool-aid cant taste that good. Oh and "if" they are were so great at tuning Subi / Evos why did they stop to begin with. If they have stopped tuning them, I dont know nor do I care. I for one would have stayed at that Az table and collected the cash all day long. Also on Thanksgiving he is going to bust on Americans? This comment below shows what a great people person he truely is and listens to the rumor mill. "(Now I've heard from the grapevine what I am about to say... Mr.Comeau 100% denies now and short term memory like most Americans do.)" "The smallest things over looked are those that might make more power" or make your car run. ..... Yeah like oil squirters..... I still have not seen the reason those were missed or installed incorrectly.....????? and Mr. ******************************************************************.