Need to pick tuner with gauges or gauges only.

1st step on stock truck = get gauges, not sure I want an engine tune. Kind of like a trans tune though.

Plans are max usage would be a 8' truck camper (2200 max wt ?), occasionally towing up to two jeeps + trailer = 13k-14k more .

I don't need to be a speed demon

The ones I like,
Edge Insight CS (about 300)(+100 for pyro)
Edge Insight CTS(about 400)(+100 for pyro)
SCT Livewire (560) (with pryo.. combo kit)

BTW looks like prices can be improved some by calling the vendors.

Comments welcome.

Thanks
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I'm in the same delima right now. I want 4 full mechanical gauges, and then a tuner/gauge display as well. But I'm looking to avoid paying $1,000 to do so.


So far, I have come up with this setup, and I think it will do the trick without breaking the bank.

4 mechanical gauges - GlowshiftFor electric gaugesSo for about $400 you have a full gauge sweep. The SGII is easily programmable to see everything the PCM sees, so you can pick and choose to your hearts content.

As for Glowshift, I've been reading up on them here and on other forums. They seem to be a really good company now. There were some reliability issues at first. But getting 4 gauges and pod for the price of 2 Autometer gauges, I'm willing to try them out.

 

btw, tuner wise you should only get the SCT. read around the site a bit and you'll see nothing but bad opinions for the Edge tuner. It works great as a gauge, but craptastic for tuning

 

I went with the Edge CS and the dash pod for my truck. The CTS doesn't fit as nicely as the CS in the pod. I can take a pic later if anybody wants.

 

Hey tylus, where did you mount your SGII. I just picked one up on Monday, but haven't installed it yet. I'm trying to figure out where to mount it.

Thanks, Cory.

 

dont have it yet. plan on mounting to the top of the steering wheel using double sided tape, next to the hazard button.

either that, or I'll pick up the rearview mirror mount

 

x2 from what I have read.

If tuner I will only consider the sct



I really like the looks of the Insight and touch screen sounds easy to program/set up.

But for a few bucks more I can do the SCT and get a tuner. hmmm

 

The dash pod does look nice.

 

I like my CTS, I got the touch screen b/c I didn't want to waste screen area with the buttons like the CTS, BUT the CTS sits outside of the dash pod, white the CS nestles into it for a cleaner look. I added an ISSPro EV2 100psi fuel press gauge, but mounted it into the dash cover behind/below the gear shift lever. If I add a pyro it'll go on the other side by the pedal adjustment switch. The Insights can be upgraded to cover both of those, but for $$$, and I was very dissatisfied with the options for displaying enough gauges on the CTS. You're playing with fire putting any tuner on a stock 6.0L, you might want to look into supporting mods, or at least know the likely repair costs, before you go that route.

Edge could go a looooong way with adding customizeable options on their Insights, namely getting rid of the "Power Level: I" box on their gauge only setup (the menu button on the CTS also), and giving you more options with locating the analog and digital gauge boxes on the screen. They let you change the background with their software, now they need to let us change how the gauges display. This way I can show EOT/ECT, TFT, Volts, FICM volts, boost, fuel press, pyro all at the same time without it being a blank screen with 8 boring retangular boxes on it that only shows numbers. A 4th analog sweep replacing the menu button would be cool too, be able to see ECT/EOT, TFT, and Pyro at the same time on sweep gauges.



I want Edge to offer these options (pardon the horrible MS Paint skills ):

 

that looks great, good suggestions.

 

Well for a few extra bucks, not many.

I went with the SCT live wire. Display is a little dated but for the few more bucks I couldn't pass up the tuner portion.

I will not be running the tuner portion till my platform is ready if ever on anything near daily use.

Next short term steps

Coolant flush, and filter kit.

EGR & Cooler delete.

All providing guages / continued reading don't dictate another route.

Thanks for your inputs

 

I've heard that the Livewire has had issues with locking up and bricking the ECU.

 

they did when they first came out a few yrs back. I havent' heard about them doing that lately though.