I am new to turbodiesels, by last Ford truck was a mid-80's 6.9L with normal aspiration.
I see chip tuning discussed, and generally understand what it is, but would like to know your opinions of the products of various makers. Ii seems like the ones with a ODBII attached display would make the most sense, but I would like to know more.
custom tuned chips from DP Tuner, PHP, TW, etc are the best ones for the 7.3s. the "productions chips" like Bully Dog, Edge, Banks, etc dont give you the best performance.
I have the edge juice platinum w/ att. mon. in my 6.0 and i have to say that i have no complaints. it does a lot of stuff, as far as transmission control,turbo timer,on the fly adjustability, gauges. But the edge is the only one i've owned.
You can chip a 7.3 or use a downloadable tuner ie: SCT
You can only use a tuner on a 6.0 ie: SCT
With a 7.3 you have many options you can select from, several different places to get custom tuning for them as well as off the shelf programing, such as Power Hungry Performance, Diesel Innovations, DP Tuner, Cale at BTS and so on.
Most of the guys with 6.0's will use the SCT and Eric at Innovative does alot of their tunes. There are other tuners out there for the 6.0 as well.
You can chip a 7.3 or use a downloadable tuner ie: SCT
You can only use a tuner on a 6.0 ie: SCT
With a 7.3 you have many options you can select from, several different places to get custom tuning for them as well as off the shelf programing, such as Power Hungry Performance, Diesel Innovations, DP Tuner, Cale at BTS and so on.
Most of the guys with 6.0's will use the SCT and Eric at Innovative does alot of their tunes. There are other tuners out there for the 6.0 as well.
I went with the "chip". Two reasons I got the chip were because of "on the fly" adjustability, and the ability to download new programs online, as the modifications progress. While installing a chip is not what I would call difficult at all, it is a "install". Where a programmer simply plugs in (OBDII port), hit some buttons, wait 5-15 minutes and you're done.
4wheel parts had me talked into and edge evolution (newer one)(programmer) and I liked the idea, because of the monitoring it is capable of.
However, I am just going to buy the gauges I need now instead.
I would agree with everything I have read in this thread and if you stay within it I dont believe you can go wrong.
TW from Stealth (chip)
DP from DPTuner (chip)
PHP from Power Hungry (programer)
No matter what you get, you will wonder how you lived without it....
Hey TWildman... I sent you an email yesterday inquiring about your chip, did you get it
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