Hey Diesel Bombers.
I own a 97 F250 Powerstroke. I found it on craigslist and picked her up on July 7th. It has just over 200,000 miles, and rebuilt transmission within the last year. I am not sure if anything was upgraded in the transmission. The truck starts right up and shift extremely smooth. It came to me with a 4 inch down pipe and 5 inch staight piped exhaust. Seeing that the exhaust was poorly rigged together I pulled that off and put 5 inch stacks on. The previous owner was running the edge evolution. He pulled that out before he sold it to me. With all that said, the motor seems a little tired and I would like to boost the power a little bit, but I am a little uneasy about chips and programmers. I've heard stories from many that a chip or programmer can bring many problems. Can anyone give me some advice? Recomendations?

tony wildman

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1997 Chevy K1500 4X4 EC/SB L56 6.5 Liter Turbodiesel
2100 PSI Pop Pressure Bosch Injectors, Bosch Duratherm Glowplugs, Relocated PMD,
Steel Braided Oil Cooler Lines,Custom Steel Vaccum Lines,Tekonsha Voyager Brake Controller
ARP Headstuds, .010 Thicker Gasket , 265/75R/16 UniRoyal Liberators A/T

Get a custom tuned chip. Before you do that you need to do an Intake and guages, sounds like you have the downpipe and everything taken care of.

Custom tunes are what you want on a 7.3 they are the best, you have lots of options, wildman, swamps, PHP, Gearhead, beans, bts, etc.

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08 F-250 Reg. Cab LB 6.4

FOR SALE: 95 F-250 Ext. Cab LB 7.3

Thanks PSD0389.
I was thinking about getting a set of gauges from glowshift.com seeing that I want to stay on the "cheaper" side. What intake would you recommend? Again on the cheaper side...

i have heard glow shifts are cheaply made, if you want cheaper get a cheap set of autometers. if you want a cheap intake so a DIY 6637 intake. and for the chip i would go with either wildman or swamps.

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{95 F250 Powerstroke XLT} 5 spd, Wildman 6 pos. chip, ADs, electric fuel system, AFE stage 2 intake, 3" down pipe to dual 3.5" exhaust with 5" tips. EBPV break, shimed FPR, idm mod by mattymx, CCV mod, Leveling Kit, diprocol egt and boost guages.

Cheapest and best working intake out there for these trucks is a 45 degree 4" exhaust elbow and a 6637 filter from napa, its like 40 bucks and it flows plenty of cold air, thats what I run

I appreciate the help everybody !

i like tony wildman tunes i ran them. switched to swamps aftrer i did my injectors, and i have to say im very happy with swamps tuning, not saying tony is bad i just like the way my truck shifts, it shifts much better with the swamps tunes then before.

powerstroker52's Sig:

2001 24V cummins, 6 inch aussie cut stack for side exit, edge with smarty stack on the way, and built tranny.

Alrighty. Some have told me just to go with the edge evolution, seeing that I just replaced the water pump, front u-joints, wheel bearings, shackle bracket, an oil leak under the turbo, and i dont have the money for a custom tuned chip right now. But im a little sketched with edge. Also, when I pulled my turbo off, I found that a couple of the fins in the wheel were bent. So...something went through the intake. The damage is not extreme, but could that be a reason for a lack in power?

PSD's Sig:

97 F250 Powerstroke 7.3 4X4 -- Ext. Cab LB -- 4" lift -- 16.5" Weld Racing Rims -- 33" BF Goodrich A/T -- 3.5" Downpipe -- 5" Stacks -- 6 Position Chip -- Boost, Pyro, Trans Gauges -- Banks Compressor Wheel -- Work in progess...

Do not get an evolution, they can kill your trans, I had one a long time ago and it sucked

I love my ts chip and tony could def help you with that and you should get the turbo fixed. You may want to look into isspro guages luv mine

BeauH's Sig:

1996 Ford F-250 Powerstroke3:55 gears, Schaffers oil bumper to bumper, Tymar intake, Ts 6pos. Chip,Isspro guages (pyro,boost,tranny), BTS Tranny(wow thanks brian), Swamp injectors, 17* HPOP, Twin 5" Stacks

Thanks guys. I may add a couple more questions soon.

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So... chips again. I was talking to someone who said they would sell me a chip with a 80 hp setting for $150. Are there single setting chips like this guy is talking about and who makes them? I cant get a hold of the guy for the next couple of days and would just like a bit of info.

What brand of chip is it? Its most likely generic if they are just throwing out HP numbers that will be completely innacurate. You wont gain 80hp with a generic tuned chip and stock everything else minus intake and exhaust, hell you probably wont even gain 80 with custom tuning and youll gain maybe 20 with that generic tuner you are talking to a guy about, you just hit your limits with the injectors in this truck and everything

Look into custom tunes, you can get just one tune if thats what you really want

That was very helpful. And it is a superchip.

By the way, I love your truck PSD0389

No problem and thanks man I appreciate it!

The difference between a superchips and custom tunes is night and day, custom tunes are so much better all around, youll get the most out of all your stock parts and in the best way possible, definitely do yourself a favor and treat your truck to some custom tunes