handheld tuners

Hypertech Power Programmer III is great...its real easy to use. Superships is very good i have heard

I've owned both the Predator and Superchips handheld tuner, and in my opinion, the Superchips performance tune gave me better drivability and transmission shift points than the Predator. My steering wheel used to slightly vibrate upon stopping at a red light with the Predator performance tune and the stock tune. Now on the Superchips tune, my car idles so smoothly and no vibration coming from the steering wheel being stopped at a red light. Power wise, I feel that the gains between the Predator and Superchips performance tunes are similar.

personaly i'd get the SCT Xcal 2 over the preditor and superchips. just my bias as it has everything i want, and the guys at SCT are VERY helpful. plus it helps that a lot of tuners use SCT tunes for their customers, so it makes it easy to change things after you get a custom tune.

diablo from what i have heard has the best out of the box tune from diablo, especially for cobras. it works welll, and has a nice display. it does not have everything worded well so some things CAN be misleading. and i have no knowledge of superchips, so i cant comment there.

Torinalth

The Diablo Predator and SCT XCal 2 are both equal with respect to custom tuning, and are simply the medium used to download a custom tune to your vehicle. The only difference is whether your favorite tuner uses Diablo or SCT software. If I were buying a brand new flash tuner today I would probably look into the XCal 2, however if you don't mind used merchandise Diablo Predators can be found for $250 and up. Both will datalog and read/clear trouble codes. If you are going to use the pre-loaded tune(s) that come with the units I have personal experience only with the Diablo Predator and the Superchips Max Microtuner and both are good. The Diablo Predator (and the XCal 2) allow the user to adjust more performance parameters on the pre-loaded tune(s) than the Superchips Max Microtuner.

Bullitt0616 said:

as im new to stangs, what other handheld tuners are there other than Diablo, Superchips and Xcal?

Would it be fair to ask what the best one is or at least pros and cons of each?

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