What's the best tune for this motor? I have an hs mini max with the spe hot tune and has nothing but problems towing with with it. They swore up and down for a year I was the only one with issues for a year and then finally admitted it's not good for towing and lots of people had issues with it so they gave me their towing tune for free but it isn't very good either.

The hot tune is a little too hot and keeps going into limp mode when towing up hills even on the lowest stock setting, or really getting on the throttle on any setting not to mention way too high of boost for a stock turbo at 30-32 on every level . It makes sports cars look slow before hitting limp mode though.

Their tow tune fixed that problem but it's boost is too low at only 18-19 (had 24 running stock Ford programming) and it smokes like crazy, more smoke on higher settings without getting any faster or any more boost. It doesn't smoke much on the stock setting but clearly the other settings aren't very well tuned.

I want a tune that will tow 25k without issues and smoke(not literally) sports cars off the line at factory boost level s so it doesn't blow the turbo. Any recommendations? At around $300 a pop I don't want to start trying them randomly and end up with more crappy tunes that don't work right. Or does anyone on here know anything about writing them that could fix the ones I got faster and cheaper than starting over? Thanks.

 

Right now, Spartan is KILLING the tuning game! Just released SOTF also.

 

What's sotf? Spartan hadn't cracked the 2013 programming yet when I got mine and didn't look like they were gonna anytime soon so I got an h&s. Spartan hadn't cracked it a year or so later even. Glad to hear they finally did, heard nothing but good about them. Hate to have to buy a whole new tuner when I just need software for the one I got though. Or did everyone quit using h&s tuners? I thought people were still actively writing tunes for them.

 

People are still using them. H&S just doesn't offer support for them anymore. Spartan just introduced SOTF (shift on the fly) software. Been tuning the 13+ trucks for the last 6 months or so.

 

Ah right on, thanks for info.