with 13000 miles on my truck and 4000miles with SCT Extreme i have been averaging 13.3 MGP. that incudes mix city/hwy and speeding . Oh and this weekend i got to race a bit with a buddy that had a 2006 F-250 with a bullydog chip. had a blast, burned some tires and reached 115mph ooppsss! (dont try this at home). overall its Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Cowboy Steve

 

2008 6.4L Powerstroke + SCT Extreme Livewire = Living the DREAM!!!

 

Wait til you get custom tunes for your SCT

Cowboy Steve

 

It's an awsome set-up. I've been running the performance tune for the last several thousand miles and have averaged 17.5 mpg, mostly highway.

Raced a Dodge a few weeks ago down the highway and by the time I decided to look at the display I was doing 122 mph!! And it still wanted to go. And to say the least the Dodge got smoked.

 

Man you get 17.5 mpg with tunes? thats prety freakin good for a dually.

 

The tunes didn't effect my MPGs at all. I think I'm getting better mileage because I got the 6-speed stick and 3.73's.

 

glad to hear that its going good and problem free.
Are you gonna straight pipe it once the tunes are available for no regens?

 

i like the idea of the stock look. it only looks like i have no chip until they see me leaving them behind, haha

 

Powerstroked162, what did you mean by custom tunes??? I'm new to the diesel world as I will be picking up my 2008 6.4 this weekend and have my SCT Extreme all ready to go. How much more is left to tune after that without changing other parts??? The Newbie needs to know and I'm with 2008drkstone on keeping the stock look. Thanks

 

Heck yea. I'm waiting to Innovative Diesel to release the tune they've been working on. Not gonna be cheap cause you have to buy the DPF delete pipe too, and I'm going with 6" stacks for my dually. Should be lookin pretty good and finnaly get some smoke and noise.

 

Best way to explain it to ya is to run a factory SCT tune then have Matt at Spartan Diesel give ya a set of custom tunes

Cowboy Steve

 

[QUOTE=SouthTexasDiesel]Heck yea. I'm waiting to Innovative Diesel to release the tune they've been working on.[QUOTE]

FWIW, the DPF delete shows no gain in HP on the dyno. So unless the Innovative boys have found some miraculous way to make an improvement over stock without a DPF, that many other performance shops have tried to do as well with no gain and even reports of lost HP, then its not worth the loss of powertrain warranty for a cool sound IMO. And trust me, no matter how friendly, deep in your hip pocket, cool, outta this world spectacular your dealer may be, you will loose your powertrain warranty mark my words. Best of luck

Rest assured that I having been the owner of a truck with the DPF removed, do know what Im talking about.

Cowboy Steve

 

I'm not doing it for HP or Tq gains. It's to get rid of the little nuke under that truck that will catch my ranch on fire. I have to drive through tall dry grass everyday. And I was able to get a piece of paper to light on fire just from the heat coming out of the tips, so I know it can happen.

Not to mention I'm keeping my stock exhaust in one piece, so if anything happens I can just stick it back on. And my salesman, service manager, and owner of the dealership are personal customers of my business. So they don't really care about my programmer.

 

Hahaha, I remember when I thought that same thing about my stealer dealer and another user told me "sounds like the famous last words of a fool" and boy was he right but to each his own. Like I said earlier, your powertrain warranty saves you alot of money in the long run, and you dont even realize it til you loose it.

I have drove my 450 through the hay fields, the grass pasture, the dry grass fields, through a budies wheat field on a tractor recovery, through the feed pasture which is over run by star thistle weeds, etc., and have never caught anything on fire even when the truck was in regen mode.

Cowboy Steve