Tuner?
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Tuner?
once i get my truck back on the road i may look into getting a tuner. i have an mbrp 4 inch cat back exhaust and an afe stage 2 intake. other than that truck is stock. aint looking to get huge power. just dont wanna get the wrong tuner and blow the head gaskets. any suggestions? thanks
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The canned SCT tunes are pretty good.
Matt at Gearhead and Vivian at QuickTricks are well respected for their tunes. I have a couple of Vivian's tunes the Looney Tune and Looney Mild.
Looney Tune is a rocket ship, Looney Mild is about on par with the canned SCT Performance tune.
With that said, I usually run the SCT "Street" tune.
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Matt at Gearhead and Vivian at QuickTricks are well respected for their tunes. I have a couple of Vivian's tunes the Looney Tune and Looney Mild.
Looney Tune is a rocket ship, Looney Mild is about on par with the canned SCT Performance tune.
With that said, I usually run the SCT "Street" tune.
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On Christmas Day I headed to the slopes for a day of snowboarding and there and back at 400 miles I got 20.5 mpg with the Street Tune.
I only get around 15 mpg highway with the Looney and around 17 with the SCT Performance Tune.
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The SCT Performance tune and the Looney/SRL are supposed to be safe for non-studded trucks.
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I had a similar concern with head gaskets etc with how much power the Looney made, so she created the Looney Mild for me.
But.... like I said I use the SCT Street Tune as my DD. I have been curious about the Tow tune, just too lazy and not curious enough to load it.
Does it drive pretty good? Good power and shifting?
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We have the Infinity programmer/monitor if you are interested too. It will do all you need it to and more.
With it you can monitor PID's(boost, ECT, EOT, trans temp, etc.), run KOEO/KOER tests, load tunes, play media, and much much more.
Let me know if you are interested and I will be glad to help you out with any questions you may have.
With it you can monitor PID's(boost, ECT, EOT, trans temp, etc.), run KOEO/KOER tests, load tunes, play media, and much much more.
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ok guys thanks for the input. i believe my icp sensor is pooped out so waiting on one to get here so i can put it in and then i can get a tuner. after that im gonna bank some money and just do small stuff with the truck like egr delete, upgraded hpop form dieselsite, oil cooler, intake elbow etc. nothing to big....yet. truck aint paid off lol
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ok guys thanks for the input. i believe my icp sensor is pooped out so waiting on one to get here so i can put it in and then i can get a tuner. after that im gonna bank some money and just do small stuff with the truck like egr delete, upgraded hpop form dieselsite, oil cooler, intake elbow etc. nothing to big....yet. truck aint paid off lol