Hey guys I'm new here as you can see but I do know some stuff about powerstrokes 7.3's, so I'm thinking of chipping my truck its an 97 f450 7.3 psd pretty much bone stock I do have a afe cold air intake and a 3" downpipe to a 3" stack I will be upgrading exhaust 3" downpipe to 5", would a ts performance 6 position chip hurt the motor and overheat it, I'd like to know what the cons of having a chip and the pros and what the best chip/tuner I should get and the difficulty of installing it and is it something I can do myself or something very difficult,
to make a long story short is it bad to chip it, I would like the extra power though. thanks guys would really appreciate it.
Get a 6pos and gauges.. it shouldnt over heat unless your stupid with it.. dont get a canned ts. Get a custom tuned.. php or tony wildman. I know there are others. I have tw and I love mine.. pros... better mpg. More power... cons worse mpg depending on you foot. Can wear out trans if your hard on it
Get a 6pos and gauges.. it shouldnt over heat unless your stupid with it.. dont get a canned ts. Get a custom tuned.. php or tony wildman. I know there are others. I have tw and I love mine.. pros... better mpg. More power... cons worse mpg depending on you foot. Can wear out trans if your hard on it
It's a 97 so e40d I tak it? did 4r100's only come in 99 and up super dutys
do you recommend i get egt guage and trans temp what other guages do think I should get
Chipping it is not going to hurt anything if it is properly tuned for what you plan to do with the truck. What are your plans, is it a dedicated tow rig? If it a dedicated tow rig some company's such as Dp tuners can flash a permanent program on the ecm. A custom tune/chip will be the best way to go and it does not have to be a 6 position, it can be from 1 to 16 positions.
My e4od just got rebuikt at 280k.. 80k of that was tuned with stage 1 sticks and a d66 turbo and it still worked great unless was max setting givin it hell
Theres nothing wrong with it.. but why pay that price for when the aame u get tunes specific to your truck that are what u want them as.. so instead of 10-140 tunes stepping up.. you can have a tow tune.. a eco tune.. a high idle and so on. And the customs are a ts chip.. with the knob al the same just differnt programmjng
what about exhaust I have 3" dp to a small mangaflow muffler than 3" pipe going up the side of my headache rack bought it used came like that, I'm thinking 3" is too small with a chip, what size exhaust do you think from the dp
that's what I was wondering like I said bought the truck used and it came with 3" dp and than 3" pipe up the headache why would they have put a pipe smaller than stock?
Like above stock is 3 1/2 and thats plenty big.. I went 3in dp to 5 ojt. But I **** the sound... install.. driver tire off then remove the plastic inner fender two bolts for the computer the wiring harness pull the computer out and install the chip. Then run the wire for the selector the far wall mounted on the dash or ever you want
Not hard to install, there are instructions online. Who knows why they went smaller than stock, cheap maybe? The most important step for installing the chip is making sure the ecm contacts are clean. The ecm comes from the factory with a wax type coating on the contacts that takes a little work to get all cleaned off.
6 pos js change on the fly programmer. Mounts on your pcm . A tuner plugs the obd2 port and flashes the pcm to somethun new and has tovbe installed while sitting 10min
My bad on the firewall part forgot thr pc is in side.. been a while lol Pcm part that plugs in is behind yhr ebrake.. once u get it hooked into pcm.. take ebrake assembly off.. and run it up thebdash
The connection is right behind your e-brake so the connection will be inside the cab. It is only necessary to pull the ecm the first time you install a chip because it is much easier to clean the contacts
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