Alright guys well i bit the bullet opened up my wallet and worked on the truck. Got it studded with arp, black onyx gaskets, sinister egr delete, powermax turbo, and sct with tunes from vivian, all done my a friend of my parents thats a tech at a near by dealer.. I have been running looney and am debating on running wild looney. Anyone out there running it? If so how would you compare it to looney and what do you use as your dd?
It's a touch more powerful than the looney. Runs a lot hotter on my truck than the original looney file I used to run. First time I ever saw 1600* was with the wild. I haven't ran it in a few years though.
well the powermax def has nice whistle for sure. But honestly i expected it to whistle louder at an idle but am sort glad it doesnt cause it can be obnoxious at times. As for the looney and powermax together it def runs strong. I want to load the looney wid but im sorta skeptical about. Iv had enough money put in this thing so running even more juice to it is something i dont really need. I did all that work to it so im hoping the truck will last now
also i had an edge juice and its no comparison to the power of vivians tunes. her tunes are strong and iv never had beter cold starts. My truck used to sit there and carry on and sound like a bolt was dropped down the intake but now its almost instantly smooth sounding, no jattering and carrying on sounding like its about to throw a rod through the block
how cold is it by you? my starts are nice and its like 16 deegrees here. I would like to get the fcim from swamps because i hear thats a real improvment for better cold starts.
Well I installed the tune yesterday when the truck was fully warm it was prolly about 30. I just got the php ficm tune from them while Headstuds done. I may try to restall the tune again and see if it changes anything
Well I don't now if you would if your would call it that or not. But when I start the truck it turns over good but once it fires it hits hard and jumps to like 11-1200 and than goes to idle. It just sounds weird if you know what I mean. My truck doesn't do it on any other tune or stock
Dude, mine does the same exact thing. Does it do it on any other high power tune (I.E. Xtreme Street, SRL++, etc.)? My Looney Wild does the same thing. I've been told it's the nature of the beast with the high power tunes.
mine will do the same thing sometime, it hasnt been doing it at all lately which is weird and its been very cold here all winter. It did it more in the fall.
Well I only ran x-street last winter and did fine. Now that I just got my truck back from studded it I got the looney tune first to try it. I don't have a video yet but I asked vivian if she wanted one but she hasn't got back to me yet
See I have the same issue. ever since I got new tunes for the ARP's and EGR delete it has done it. Thought it was the FICM, so I replaced it. No change.
hmm weird, I dont have this problem at all, but then again my looney has been revised like 6 times. Viv will make it right, she may just have to de-fuel it little at start up.
thats very odd, she revised my looney to make it the wild with altered shifting and the issue went away, maybe its just a bug in the base tune or something.
Mine doesn't do that, but I told her I have studs as well.... Not sure if I got more than just the standard looney... sending her an email to ask. My trucks starts good on street and looney, when "chilled" to 30 degrees, at least better than stock for sure. When I mean start, I should say idle.
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