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I have HP tuners and have tuned several PCMs. I will say factory PCMs are decent at best. I have bricked a few of them. When I spoke to HP Tuners at SEMA last year, they said you can’t predict how many times a PCM can be rewritten. The circuit boards are 10-20 years old and while some can be retuned 100s of times, some may only be retuned a few times. HP Tuners won’t give you a new PCM if you end up bricking it.

All in all I still mess with HP Tuners but for builds like yours, the standalone is, in my opinion, the way to go. For those on a budget and don’t want to spend the $1k and up for a stand-alone, factory PCMs will get you started but I would recommend upgrading to a stand alone somewhere down the road.