best CAI and flash tuner?

Frankenstang838 · Aug 23, 2009

I have a 99 GT.....Granatelli 75mm plenum, BBK 75mm TB, K&N filter in modified OE induction. Exhaust is OE manifolds, modified factory H-pipe into Mac Pro Chambers. Im planning on CAI, cams, long tubes, 3.73 gears, hundred horse shot, and a flash tuner in the near future...... im goin with AFM on the cams, BBK on the headers, FRPP for the gears and NOS for the nitrous, but im a little lost on the tuner and CAI....what would be some good suggestions going by my mods and planned mods? I keep hearing SCT for the tuner, but theirs are more geared for highly modded and/or forced induction engines. I don't have plans for forced induction, so would diablosport be the better choice? I have no clue on the CAI..... any suggestions would help.

twogts4us · Aug 24, 2009

Good lord dude, what would you call "highly modded"? You're telling us your plan is for full exhaust, plenum and throttle body, cams, CAI, gears and 100HP shot of juice...what else would you have to add to consider this "highly modded"?
What you need to do is find out what the tuners in your area are using. With these mods you should be on a dyno monitoring parameters and building a tune. With NOS, you might consider a switch (or flip) chip. It allows you to change the tune from one setup (NA) to another setup (NOS) on the fly. Otherwise, you'd either be running all the time with a NOS tune or you could have 2 tunes loaded in a handheld tuner, but who wants to have to upload a new setup every time they want to play with the spray?
As stated, your most important factor is going to be going with a product supported by a local tuner you are comfortable with. Both Diablo and SCT are good products in the hands of those who know how to write a tune. They are both good for a car with just a couple bolt ons or a full tilt 10 sec ride. A tuner will have an expensive software package that allows him to build a custom tune just for your car. You just need the device to write the tune to - SCT or Diablo handheld or chip.

VEE EIGHT · Aug 24, 2009

K&N FIPK or JLT for the CAI

Frankenstang838 · Aug 27, 2009

twogts4us said:
Good lord dude, what would you call "highly modded"? You're telling us your plan is for full exhaust, plenum and throttle body, cams, CAI, gears and 100HP shot of juice...what else would you have to add to consider this "highly modded"?
What you need to do is find out what the tuners in your area are using. With these mods you should be on a dyno monitoring parameters and building a tune. With NOS, you might consider a switch (or flip) chip. It allows you to change the tune from one setup (NA) to another setup (NOS) on the fly. Otherwise, you'd either be running all the time with a NOS tune or you could have 2 tunes loaded in a handheld tuner, but who wants to have to upload a new setup every time they want to play with the spray?
As stated, your most important factor is going to be going with a product supported by a local tuner you are comfortable with. Both Diablo and SCT are good products in the hands of those who know how to write a tune. They are both good for a car with just a couple bolt ons or a full tilt 10 sec ride. A tuner will have an expensive software package that allows him to build a custom tune just for your car. You just need the device to write the tune to - SCT or Diablo handheld or chip.

Well, there's not much to choose from around here in the dyno tune area. people around here build carbed big block drag cars, or mud bogging trucks. you don't ever see a street machine like what im turning my ride in to. there's a couple boosted stangs, but its a supercharger and thats it...so im gonna have to travel at least a hundered miles to find a shop that i'd trust with my car. i can do all the work myself.....nitrous is the absolute last step cause that might end up being the end of my long block. i'll do more searching to see what kinda shops i have that aren't across the country.

twogts4us · Aug 27, 2009

You can search the Diablo and SCT websites for shops in your area...

ErikTheBeast · Aug 27, 2009

+1 on SCT and a JLT CAI

soupnutz · Aug 28, 2009

Got an SCT that I'm happy with. Kinda wish I'd gotten a sniper though, reason being I've got a f-150 I wouldnt mind playing with the tune on and I'm not spending another $380 to do it. The sniper you can program 2 vehicles with it and for $150 add another vin. haven't heard of many dyno tuners that use the snipers though.

Wish SCT would do that, pay half or a third what the unit cost and be able to add another vin to it.

Only other thing with SCT with the newer updates, some of the user end customization has been disabled, I had to get disabling the EGR added to the custom tune, you used to be able to do that yourself.

Frankenstang838 · Aug 30, 2009

soupnutz said:
Only other thing with SCT with the newer updates, some of the user end customization has been disabled, I had to get disabling the EGR added to the custom tune, you used to be able to do that yourself.

Thats total BS...what else did they take out?

twogts4us · Sep 1, 2009

Blame big brother. Diablo's newest updates don't allow you to turn off the rear O2 sensors (when running an O/R midpipe)...

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