Chequered Tuning

15/09/2026

BIG BLOCK TROUBLESHOOTING 🔧🔥

Paul’s tough old girl in for some dyno time, running a Speedworks-built 540ci big-block Chev controlled by a very nice Autronic SM4.

This one had an ongoing gremlin that had managed to slip through the last few shops. After a bit of digging, we finally tracked it down — the MSD rotor with adjustable phasing was slipping, causing all kinds of ignition timing mayhem. 😵‍💫

With the problem found and sorted, we could finally get the big 540 to behave itself and get on with the tune.

Always satisfying when you find the actual problem instead of trying to tune around it. 👌

14/09/2026

WORLD TIME ATTACK PREP 🇦🇺🔥

What a bloody big week getting everything ready for World Time Attack!

A pretty wild mix through ( ecus in all) the dyno before heading to Sydney:

🏎️ Mike Lake’s SLAMBO Lamborghini — back with its new Promaz engine and ready to make some noise.

🏆 Jason Ferron’s JZ Wagon — plenty of prep before Sydney, and Jason went on to put the thing on the podium! Awesome result.

🔊 The Territory — which I'm fairly certain managed to deafen most of Sydney. 😂 If you heard it, you definitely knew it was there.

💨 JT’s R33 — entered Clubsprint for its first proper run and, even better, JT’s first-ever laps of the circuit. Nothing like throwing yourself straight into WTAC!

Four completely different cars, four completely different jobs, and plenty of late nights getting them sorted.

Very big week — but this is the sort of stuff we love. 🇦🇺🏁

11/09/2026

11/09/2026

A tuner’s worst nightmare… 🤦‍♂️

Turbosmart wastegates with the boost-control pneumatics plumbed straight into the water-cooling ports.

We see this WAY more often than you’d think — pretty much a weekly headache at this point. 😂

Surely Turbosmart could make the water and pneumatic ports different sizes so this physically can’t happen. It would save tuners everywhere a whole lot of head scratching!

PSA: Just because the fitting screws in, doesn’t mean it goes there. 😂

Chequered Tuning is not your average workshop. We pride ourselves in quality tunes and we have structured our business to accommodate the best service.

10/09/2026

This thing came up an absolute treat! 🔥

Customer-built R31 Skyline, still rocking a stock bottom end, fitted with an Aeroflow Performance 5558 turbo and Link G5X ECU doing all the thinking.

We set it up on flex fuel, giving it a nice usable 98 tune with plenty more on tap when the ethanol comes in.

98 Octane: 334.8 kW / 525 Nm @ ~22 psi
E85: 395.7 kW / 629 Nm @ ~25 psi

That’s a gain of over 60 kW and 100 Nm on E85, with just shy of 400 kW at the hubs from the stock bottom end. 💪

Awesome old-school package with modern ECU control — responsive, strong and a heap of fun. 😎

09/09/2026

R32 GTR with T88H-38GK singing a tune!! JS Performance

09/09/2026

Justin’s R32 GT-R 🔥

Prepped by the guys at JS Performance, with a bottom end built with NITTO gear, Haltech ECU and IC-10 dash, and the biggest of the old-school GReddy T88H-38GK turbos hanging off the side.

Still running standard ignition hardware, it punched out 583 kW and 815 Nm at the hubs on 30 psi.

A proper old-school R32 combination — big single, big boost and plenty of RPM. That T88 takes a little convincing, but once it’s awake it makes some serious mumbo! 💪🔥

08/09/2026