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Old Dec 30, 2010 | 09:33 PM
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I have 2 friends who are trying to sell me their programmers, one is a Edge Juice with Attitude, and the other is an SCT......Im not sure which one would be better, i have heard good things about the SCT and nothing about the Edge....which would be better for my 6.0?
 
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Old Dec 30, 2010 | 09:51 PM
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sct don't mess with edge bad for 6 .0 i got sct and love it been having it for about a year get costom tunes you wont regret it
 
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Old Dec 31, 2010 | 07:59 AM
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Ditto on the SCT. Make sure you get a good deal - they are reasonable on ebay - $200-250. Make sure it is unlocked and has not been used on too many vehicles - you have 5 vehicles before you need to pay SCT $150 to use it on another. The best Edge product is the Insight for monitoring only - awesome for gauges. Don't use the other Edge options which tune as well.
 
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Old Dec 31, 2010 | 08:02 AM
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SCT no question. Stay as far away from that edge as you can. They are know to cause problems with the trans. Off the self "canned" tuners are bad for this truck. You need to use custom tuning to get the full benifit, and to be the safest for your truck, and trans. Do you happen to know what model SCT he has. Some of them don't do custom tuning. If he has one that dosen't offer custom tuning I wouldn't mess with it either. Let us know what model SCT it is, and we can go from there.
 
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Old Dec 31, 2010 | 12:49 PM
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Im not really sure which SCT programmer he has but which would be the best for my truck?
 
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Old Dec 31, 2010 | 12:53 PM
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SCT XCal2 if you can find it. XCal3 is OK. Stay away from the Livewire (aka Lemonwire).
 
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Old Dec 31, 2010 | 09:35 PM
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i have only had good results with my SCT X3
 
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Old Jan 1, 2011 | 07:38 AM
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the SCT SF3 is basically the same as the X3 ...either of those is a good choice
 
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Old Jan 1, 2011 | 01:37 PM
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My friend is gonna sell me his X3 for $150
 
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Old Jan 1, 2011 | 02:37 PM
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I would go for it. Then get some custom tunes from either innovative diesel or gearhead
 
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Old Jan 1, 2011 | 02:43 PM
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Im pretty sure he already has 3 custom tunes on it
 
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Old Jan 1, 2011 | 02:56 PM
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My friend is gonna sell me his X3 for $150
Good price if it is not locked up.
 
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Im pretty sure he already has 3 custom tunes on it
Unless your truck's PCM has the same programming strategy as his those tunes won't work on your truck.
 
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Old Jan 1, 2011 | 04:57 PM
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Unless your truck's PCM has the same programming strategy as his those tunes won't work on your truck.
Still a good price and you can get tunes for about $100.
 
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