whats with granatelli and diablo predator?

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swl987

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i'm going to buy a diablo predator and the site i want to buy it from calls it a granatelli diablo predator. is there anything different about it? is it lower quality? did granatelli just buy the company? and the store is not granatelli motorsports. whats the deal?

 

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It's a predator with a Grantelli sticker on it. It may have a pre-loaded tuning file that granantelli claims is better. SLP does the same thing.

Either way, a predator is a predator.

 

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I was sort of wondering the same thing, I want to buy the diablosport predator but I found a couple places with good prices on the "granatelli" predator (includung summit). This leads me to believe that some company produces the hardware and diablo, granatelli, etc. provides the software??? Also, I checked out granatelli's website and now they have some tuner called the fuego??? What are your thoughts

 

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Anything with the Granatelli name on it should
be thrown in the trash.

 

tomustang

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StangPro said:

It's a predator with a Grantelli sticker on it. It may have a pre-loaded tuning file that granantelli claims is better. SLP does the same thing.

Either way, a predator is a predator.

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nah, I'm sure the Made In China sticker was removed and some internal screws wern't installed on the Grantelli one

 

jeffnoel

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I just orderd a Predator Friday $300 shipped new.

 

uhoh5.0

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Where did you order from???

 

SaleenGT2001

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why not get a Xcal 2? from what i've heard the predator is garbage!

 

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Pennywise2 said:

Anything with the Granatelli name on it should
be thrown in the trash.

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hahahhaa

 

jeffnoel

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I looked at them both and decided the Predator would work for me. I got it from Thouroughbred Diesel.

http://www.thoroughbreddiesel.com/

 

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SCT FTW

 

jeffnoel

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Ordered late Friday, paid by PayPal promptly. They shipped it Saturday and it arrived today. Can't say anything abouth the Predator yet but Thouroughbred Diesel so far is batting 1000.

 

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the only big win in the debate over predator and SCT that I have heard is that SCT really does offer downloadable upgrades where as predator doesnt.

 

tha great one

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i just looked in a MM&FF mag and i saw this gran-diabl-predato thing and it looks like it just includes the PC interface kit a $40 value

 

jeffnoel

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Well I used it's diagnostic function last night to check the ECT against my Autometer water temp gauge. My car runs way to hot in traffic when temps approach the century mark. It appears my gauge was right, even though the factory t-stat is 195 the low-speed fan isn't set to come on till 208 and the hi-speed till 228. In town my car runs at 230 when the weathers hot so I adjusted all the fan on-off temps 8 degrees lower than factory to see if it makes a noticable difference on the Autometer.

 

jeffnoel

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Well it did make a diff, car runs right at 220 now when it's 100+ degrees outside.

Next question, Diablosports website if I'm understanding it correctly says the Predator has a performance tune for 87, 91, and 93 octane. Well I can't find them I loaded the performance tune expecting to get an octane option sometime before it actually loaded the tune but it never did, so I removed the tune. Can anyone tell me were I can find the different octane tune options? My Predator does have the latest revision.

 

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Pennywise2 said:

Anything with the Granatelli name on it should
be thrown in the trash.

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agreed

 

jeffnoel

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Thanks for wasting my time...

 

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i noticed the same thing... they give you no option to make a fuel choice... but i have the 4-7k timing map maxed out and 1% fuel removed and i run on amoco 93 w/ no problems...

 

jeffnoel

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My problem is I can't buy 93 in CA 91s the best I can get at the pump.