Hello all, anyone have any experience with the Edge Evolution model 15002? I have one in the mail to me right now because I wanted some help with towing my fifth wheel and I also liked the "gauges" it has installed. I am not too comfortable now after reading the post in here about Edge products. I am not a hot rod kind of guy, just looking for a little more power for towing.

Thanks, Glenn

 

Tex...

I was wondering if you were a little under the weather or maybe tired this morning...

UMgriz,

If you look back thru some of the posts on these questions you will see that Tex... has a lot of acquired ($$$$$) knowledge on what you are asking. You will also get my earlier comment. Especially on the new intake ????. There are several guys on here that have earned their opinions. Tex is one.

 

i've seen the best fuel mileage running my extreme street and race files from innovative diesel. custom tunes for my SCT. shifting is clean, quick, smooth, and precise.

 

OK all, I have looked at some more post and I am still a little confused. The Edge "Juice" seems to be the culprit in most cases and a lot of the post indicate that because transmission changes are not made with the programmer, it causes a problem. The Edge "Evolution" does program some tranny changes and I was wondering if that might help not to tear up my transmission and cause head problems. I am not a "put your foot in it" kind of guy and don't do any racing. Just want a little help when towing my 14K fifthwheel in the mountain passes around here and will like having the ability to monitor boosts, EGT and tranny temp while towing. Any thoughts from the experts on the "Evolution"?

Thanks-Glenn

 

I'm with 69cj on this.

Adding performance mods to a 6.0 requires that you understand just how these modification affect your truck and then dollars to do it the right way. I think if you skimp on either you will regret your decision.

 

adding any performance is a risk. the 6.0l seem to be at risk in stock form anyways. really to each his own on selecting mod parts. i made my own EGR delete after my cooler cracked, so i wanted the SCT to turn it off (if married, great excuse to use on the wife to purchase a tuner).

 

I will give you this, the Evolution is better then the Juice and like products, however it still is one size fits all tuning and how Edge achieves higher HP gains is not exactly the best way.

Also, because custom tunes handle things like the truck's strategy(which Edge, Bullydog, Banks etc don't do), that in of itself helps the truck be more efficient. You'll read from people that even though they don't have complaints like mechanical issues, their truck still didn't act right, but you have other people that just love how their truck acted. That's because those that really liked it, their trucks were better mated with the tuning then those that didn't. Where as with custom tuning, your truck will damn near always be mated toward the tuning as best as it can be without doing dyno tuning.

Even though the Evolution is also better then the other Edge products, tuning itself(outside of the strategy issue) still falls short. There are only a few parameters that are changed with tranny and ECM tuning and those few things don't add up to "properly tuning the vehicle's computers". Plus it also give you the ability to expand on modding if you so chose to do(if you get bit by the mod bug like I have).

Getting custom tunes, on the front end, is more expensive then doing the Edge, or Bullydog etc route, but in the back end it's so much better more often then not. Some people never have had an issue with the other products, but more often then not people have had issues.

 

Thanks Tex, I feel a little better now and a little more educated now.

-Glenn

 

I have over 91k on Edge A-2 without a problem , but I have a 6sp . That seems to be the big differance . I too keep mine on the 3rd setting , it seems to get the best milage and tq performance. Would like to hear from more 6sp owners that have the Edge products and what kind of feed back the have . ollllo

 

That's one of their products I haven't heard about in a long long long time. It came out when I was just starting to get into all the tuning stuff.