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Old 07-31-2008, 07:31 PM
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Next Upgrade...gauges Or Tuner?

OK...saving up for the next upgrade and I am leaning towards the AutoMeter C2 gauges on the A-Pillar from All About Diesels. Should I go with gauges or Tuner first?
 
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i would go with the gauges first. your gonna want to monitor your egt's and other things anyway. if you get the tuner first, there will be no way to see if something is wrong.
 
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definately gauges first....
 
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Gauges. I don't know who advised you for the mods you did but I would get gauges first before I did anything. Why? Because you want to see what is going on. More importantly, you want to see what the baseline is. That way, when you add something, you can see a change or if something changes, you have a baseline to go from.
 
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Old 08-01-2008, 01:15 PM
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Next thing you need is to call DP-Tuner and he will set you up for what you want.
 
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Next thing you need is to call DP-Tuner and he will set you up for what you want.
with a 6.0 in his rig, he needs to call Eric at Innovative...I've heard Jody is doing 6.0's, but Eric is still the best..
 
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Originally Posted by aklim
Gauges. I don't know who advised you for the mods you did but I would get gauges first before I did anything. Why? Because you want to see what is going on. More importantly, you want to see what the baseline is. That way, when you add something, you can see a change or if something changes, you have a baseline to go from.
hmmm sounds like what i said.. hopefully he will do them before the mods. but, i think he gets it...lol.
 
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with a 6.0 in his rig, he needs to call Eric at Innovative...I've heard Jody is doing 6.0's, but Eric is still the best..
I'm not sure about the 6.0 but I do know Jody has been doing them for a while. Also, looking at Eric's site, he would be limited to using the SCT and that means 3 tunes only and he has to download them before he can use them.
 
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Defiantly gauges first and I thought for the 6.0 Spartin was the Favorite?
 
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Defiantly gauges first and I thought for the 6.0 Spartin was the Favorite?
The last time I looked in the 6.0L forum, Matt at Spartan Diesel was the main man.

According to the threads and posts, Spartan seems to be the overwhelming favorite of the 6.0L crowd.

Stewart

PS - Gauges first...always. Unless you're like me. I ordered the gauges and custom chip at the same time, but the chip with the custom tunes came in first, so it was installed a week or so before the gauges!
 
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