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I bought a 2001 Ford F250 Superduty with the 7.3L in it about a month ago and the dealer I bought it from thought it had a banks chip in it. Well it it does im not impressed and want to put the bully dog 6 position chip and so I can smoke ****! Can anyone tell me how to go about figuring out what it has? Also it may sure have been programmed and if so would it mess anything up to put the chip in? Thanks Ben
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Welcome to FTE Ben. You need to scroll a little further down the forum listing and find our 7.3 section. Here's a shortcut to it https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/forum31/
Not many fans there of the banks, or the bully dog for that matter. If you want more power, you'll need an intake, which can be anything from a $30 6637 filter to a $500 AFE stage 2, a bigger exhaust (usually 4" turbo back will work), a set of gauges, then you can step up to a real chip.
DP-tuner is the popular one here, with Tony Wildman coming in 2nd (by popularity). Both of these offer custom options when you order your chip, and if you want even more power later and start swapping injectors, turbos, HPOP, etc., can offer live tuning to tweak the chip settings to match your truck perfectly. You won't find those kind of options with any off the shelf tuner like bully dog.
Follow the above link and post the same question, and you'll receive enough advice to empty your wallet in no time.
Not many fans there of the banks, or the bully dog for that matter. If you want more power, you'll need an intake, which can be anything from a $30 6637 filter to a $500 AFE stage 2, a bigger exhaust (usually 4" turbo back will work), a set of gauges, then you can step up to a real chip.
DP-tuner is the popular one here, with Tony Wildman coming in 2nd (by popularity). Both of these offer custom options when you order your chip, and if you want even more power later and start swapping injectors, turbos, HPOP, etc., can offer live tuning to tweak the chip settings to match your truck perfectly. You won't find those kind of options with any off the shelf tuner like bully dog.
Follow the above link and post the same question, and you'll receive enough advice to empty your wallet in no time.
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Hopefully no one piggy backed a hard chip over a tune, it would either be too much for the engine or one would over write the other (depending on how it was done.) You PCM should be near the driverside kick panel, the end closest to you has the test port where a hard chip/interface would connect. If it's flush and black with no additional wires coming out of it, there is no hard chip installed. If there is a hard chip, just remove the tape or any other bindings and pull it off. You will want to put something over the hole, duct tape should be fine.
If you take it to ford, they flash the latest updates in the PCM which would over write any tunes installed. Basically bringing you back to stock.
I don't like piggy back systems or hard chips. Semi-custom or dyno tune is the way to go. Like mentioned before, there are supporting mods to help. Its not just the power, but keeping the turbo cool.
If you take it to ford, they flash the latest updates in the PCM which would over write any tunes installed. Basically bringing you back to stock.
I don't like piggy back systems or hard chips. Semi-custom or dyno tune is the way to go. Like mentioned before, there are supporting mods to help. Its not just the power, but keeping the turbo cool.
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Oh, I want one of Jody's tunes, but my Bully Dog was free and I will live with that for a while.
Just wondering if Jody can work on that and hop it up for me. Guess I will have to give him a call.
Just wondering if Jody can work on that and hop it up for me. Guess I will have to give him a call.
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He can't. For a while he was able to reprogram the Edge tuners, but he is no longer allowed to do that. Edge pulled the plug on 3rd party programming as the EPA started cracking down on some of the bigger companies.
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I have one of the old style flip chips.
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