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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:14 PM
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I need your guys's imput!!

the Hypertech power programmer III.....what do you guys have to say about it. I found one for 125$ does it put out good power or no?
 
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:22 PM
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Sorry Nick Dont waste your money is what I say. Look at what people on here have. DP,TW,PHP,Custom Tunes
 
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:29 PM
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It will work....BUT.......spend twice the money and get a ten times better tuner.
 
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:29 PM
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They are canned tunes. You will see a difference in your truck. Some of them are hard on the transmission. Save up to get a tuner from a custom tuner and you will be much happier
 
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:36 PM
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I ran a hypertech for a few years. I sold it on Ebay and bought a DP. Money well spent
 
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:37 PM
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As the other's have said Nick, canned tunes dont hold a match to any from DP,TW, or any of the other custom tuners not mentioned who know what works best for the 7.3. The ones available from Hypertech etc....that have canned tunes as Jim said, are kind of just generic tunes. Going from canned tunes, to something such as a DP, is almost like going from stock to Hypertech, except as Jim mentioned, the tuners such as DP or TW are much easier on the engine/trans etc.
 
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:38 PM
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I ran a superchip for a while.It wasen't so super after I installed my DP tuner,WOW what a differance.
 
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 10:28 PM
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i just looked at the DP tuners. from what i see there are two? one is 199$ the other is 399$ what is the difference between them
 
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