I need a tuner
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I need a tuner
Ok, heres the deal I have an 05. 5.4l f150 4x4 I am looking to get a tuner to get some extra horsepower while pulling my drag car. What tuner should I get. I would like to get a tuner that i could tune my buddys trucks with too. I figure if i could tune all 3 of ours with one id be happy. I could charge them 50 bucs and keep the tuner myself. One has an 05 5.4 the other 06 with 5.4. Any recomendations.
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To my knowledge there isn't a tuner that can do more then one vehicle at a time. You can look at DTCs from different vehicles(with the same engine of course) to your hearts desire, unless you actually buy tuning softare and 3 tuners and do it that way. For the 5.4, I would think doing Troyer custom tunes would probably be the best(I'm a big advocate of custom tuning after having had both off the shelf tunes and custom tunes) and there isn't any way to do one tuner to hold tunes for 3 different vehicles and custom tuned to each individual driver's specs.
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I couldn't find anything on the software packages, although I did find out for the sniper software you can upload the file right to the vehicle for one particular vehicle, but then you have to put it on a tuner or chip for the other vehicles. The user ReAX is the one that could let you know about the pricing and specs on the sniper software as I believe he uses it. As far as custom tuning, depending on the tuner(the device, not the person) that you get if you where to get it from Troyer(which i believe is the better one for the 5.4 engine from what I have heard on hear) the price can range from 250-600 dollars, but the email updates if you were to change your vehicle(supercharger etc) then it would be an email update of your files for about 65(that's just from what I understand from his website, do want to check with him to be sure on that though). Hope this helps.
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For your usage of wanting to tune other vehicles as well as your own, the sniper special forces would be the most cost efficient method. It allows you to tune 2 vehicles with the special forces and can buy "bullets" to be able to tune more vehicles. Definitely message ReAX for more info as he has first hand experience with it.
