About to buy a 1999 f250 sd its my first ford just want opinions on tuners I been looking at sct livewire one please I need opinions

 

In addition to the SCT Livewire, the SCT XCAL3 with custom tunes will also work: 5 Star Tuning | Custom Dynomemeter Chassis Tuning Products and Services

Gryphon (re-badged Edge) with custom tunes: Power Hungry Performance - Gryphon™ CS & CTS - Gasoline

 

Is that the link so buy the live wire an xcal3? I just wanted the live wire one so I could mount it in my dash

 

5Star Tuning sells all the SCT products with custom tunes.

PHP also sells the Gryphon/Edge products (in addition to the SCT products).

 

With regards to “Chips” and “Tuners”, years ago it was the best that most could do to enhance the ignition timing, fuel curve, transmission shift points, etc. It was (and still is) very important that a person verifies that the “Tuner” is ASE certified in both ECM and Transmission programming and IMHO be have current certification by the OEM whose vehicle you want to modify. There are plenty of persons who advertise their programs to be the best and even offer custom tunes, but in all reality, very few actually have credentials in these areas- but that’s not to say that some of these “geniuses” haven’t really caused damage to a few vehicles- just jump over to flatratetech.com and read just some of the comments from the MSE techs!. Perhaps what is equally important is the parameters that can be adjusted are set by the OEM vehicle software…so there is really no “magic” in what they are doing anyway.

IMHO, if you live near any major city there are excellent tuning specialists with dynos who for the same price (if not less) will tune your vehicle taking into consideration your specific needs including environmental conditions, for your specific vehicle. IMHO, the best bang for the buck!

If you are comfortable and understand how to tune a vehicle, you can also do this yourself. There are several software programs available, that “Speak Common English” that will allow you to tune your vehicles ECM. One company is HP Tuners, they have a website….they offer two core programs, one for those who are doing dyno tuning and one for the home-garage mechanic (which is priced at about the same as most of the “canned tunes on the market) …this version limits the span of adjustments as a safeguard against doing something outside of the oem scope……basically, keeps you from doing something “too stupid by accident” (grin)- but you must have an understanding of how/why you are adjusting fuel mixture and ignition timing.

 

Well I used a super chips on my dodge but imma try sct thanks for the help

 

So did anyone actually try 5 Star tuning? I am not scared it will hurt but rather worried it would not change anything or cause an even worse mileage.

 

I've read at least 50 positive reviews of Mike's services and products.

Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums - View Profile: D8chumley has Mike's tunes.

 

Troyer did my 08 and I couldn't be happier.

 

Bill Troyer is probably the best with these modular engines, but unless you actually go to his shop for a dyno tune, his wait times are ridiculous (over a year in most cases).