I signed up for my first proper track day next month and I'm super excited but also a bit nervous. My 2017 Camaro SS feels fine on the street but I've never pushed it hard for twenty minutes straight. A buddy told me that the factory cooling and fuel maps get really conservative once things heat up, and I might end up losing power halfway through a session or worse. So now I'm wondering if I should get a track-focused calibration done before the event or just run it stock and see how it behaves. Problem is I don't want to rush a tuner and end up with something half-baked just to meet a deadline. I've had my eye on
Dyno Star Workshop for a while because they seem to actually understand performance driving, not just drag strip numbers. Would it be smarter to go before the track day and have them set up a safe map with extra cooling protection, or should I get some seat time first so I know what I actually want to change? Also curious if anyone here has done back to back stock vs tuned on the same track and whether the lap times really improved that much. Last thing I want is to cook my transmission because I got greedy.