pillar pods or programmer with digital display?
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pillar pods or programmer with digital display?
I have a stock 02 7.3 with 202000 miles and want to get a little more pep out of it. I tried to put the TS 6 pos chip on it and don't know if the guy was selling faulty chips or if the pcm was sanded down too far but everytime I plugged the chip in I had a crank no start problem. unhook the chip and it would bust off. so I go my money back on that and now going to with a programmer. are the pillar pods a thing of the past and the digital the up and coming? or is it just a preference thing?
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The SCT livewire Ts 5015 is sweet you can have up to 9 gauges displayed at once you need an egt probe, the only thing you can't get on it is fuel pressure. It shows the real time data your PCM is seeing from all the sensors plus it is a tuner with multiple canned tune options for your truck and you can also get a custom tune if you want to. You couldn't even get three nice gauges and a pod for the price of the sct. All you would have to do is install the egt probe and route the cables from the obd port and egt sender.
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Ive got both a digital monitor and analog gauges for mine. The pros of the analog gauges is they to me look cool. The function and have their own sendor units so I know what the item measured is. The down side is I have boost, tranny temp, fuel psi, and egt. Thats it I cant change them if I wanted to look at a different parameter. I scored a used edge evo a few years back for a hundred bucks. Nothing fancy but it does allow me to see what other parameters are. I can use it to check oil temps coolant temps battery voltage and practically everything except fuel psi. The only concern with a digital monitor in my mind is theft though. Especially if it is a tuner/ gauge package. Most of them now days look like a highend gps and are easy to rip out and then your stuck with a non factory programming and would have to replace a couple hundred dollar device as well as take the truck to a dealer to have the truck flashed back to stock. If it were me id get a tuner and stand alone gauges either digital or analog.
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