I have a 2001 f250 7.3 118,000 miles I am wanting to send in my pcm to DP-tuner to get it flashed, Can you get any of the tunes flash on it, and if so what tune do you recommend, its pretty much my daily driver except very occasional towing of 6000# trailer and a car hauler with my 73 mud truck on it. What tune would you guys recommend? Thanks

edit: I also live in wisconsin does this affect cold starting? Thanks

 

If your going to get a flash, just get the 80 tow and you will be fine... But I would really look at a chip over a flash... The ability to adjust is priceless.

 

Go for the 80hp Econo flash. Tell jody to try to work out the "fuel lag" (as i call it) in the lower RPM's. On my 80 econo program, there is a definite fuel lag programmed in to prevent smoking until the turbo begins to spool up. I use that setting the most, and alot of guys here have a 80hp flashed PCM.

 

Why send your PCM? Just have Jody send you a pre-flashed PCM of your choice. When it gets there, replace your PCM with his and mail the old PCM back to Jody. I was without my truck no more than 30 minutes . I got the 40 tow PCM and I am still happy I did.

 

according to jodys site, you can no longer send your pcm back as a core and recieve the 175 bucks back.
not sure why. maybe he has enough cores. so, the flash is 75 bucks plus shipping,
for any performance tune, or 250 bucks for his supplied with flash. and the flip chip
$245 with one tune and 45 for each additional.

 

Nope. He told me on the phone they took a pretty bad hit getting back a bunch of bad PCMs. Some people just plain SUCK. The flash comes out to ~$100 after shipping and all. I LOVE IT!!

 

That is sad to hear...always has to be some a****** to ruin it for others.

 

Not sure you want the 80 Econo if you tow. I had a 60 because 80 Tow made too much heat for my stock system . I have a 4 in MBRP and DP Tuner VB at the time.

 

That just blows my mind... I could tow in the 125 setting before injectors with no issues... Control the EGT's with your right foot...

 

Thanks guys for all the quick answers, i think i will be going with the 80 econo until i can afford the actually chip so i can get the higher settings and really smoke people

 

I asked Jody about the 80HP Tow tune and he felt it was too high. He recommended the 60HP Tow tune instead.

 

I went with the 40hp tow tune for my ~9k 5th wheel. My EGTs stay in check so well that I rarely have to check them (just a quick glance going up hills). However - they were out of control when I had boost leaks. Nervewracking. And how did I know I had boost leaks? Gauges! Imagine what damage I could have done if I ran 40hp tow with those boost leaks....

Having said that, you could go with 60hp tow for only a 6000lbs trailer. Of course, ask Jody for a definitive answer. But get gauges. BTW the flash is a great deal. I have to feed my PMS on a budget...

 

I have to control what I spend to, I havent even had my truck for a month yet, and i could have spent alot more.

 

i dont want to hijack this thread but i have to ask. how did you find your leak? did you pressurize the system w/compressed air?? how high were your egt's w/the leak?? also what did you do to fix it??

 

I have to admit I didn't really "find" them, I just saw the obvious - y-pipe to engine intake boots that had slid from where I originally installed them, and a clamp that was definitely not doing any good (at an angle and 'loose'). So I figured since I had to take it all off, I replaced them all (including the intercooler boots) and filed the y-pipe while it was out as well.

Before, and without the pcm flash, I could push 1250 easily. If I didn't let up going up some not so steep hills, I could see where it would go right through 1300. Obviously didn't want to do that, so I spent alot of time climbing hills in 3rd going 55 (one time I had to do 2nd at 40). I was left wondering if all trucks were like that. Then some threads about "hissing under the hood" got me thinking and I looked closely at my y-pipe and "voila" as they say...

Now I go up the same hills, with the 40hp flash, boost leaks fixed (and I did get the BTM) and it's much lower. In fact I could probably go to the 60hp because I have more "room" ...

- - - by the way I did make a boost leak detector like that sold on dieselsite, it did help me also. I determined that my intercooler boots were not leaking but I replaced them anyway - - -