im looking at putting a tuner on my 03 6.0 but i dont have the money to buy the sct and put innovation tunes on it, so i was wondering if there were other decent/good tunes out there for the 6.0 im getting my isspro tranny temp/boost/pyro gauges put in next week and i also have head studs and egr delete so that will answer a few questions haha.

 

Canned Tunes that come with the SCT are still good tunes. Buy the innovative tunes later down the road.

Luke

 

If you can't afford to get the right tunes, then just wait until you can.

If you can't afford the SCT, how are you going to afford anything else? They're all around the same price. Try and find a used X-cal2 or X-cal3 on the forums, make sure it has unlocks left and is put back to stock before purchasing, then you can just order the custom tunes one at a time. I've bought X-cal2's for $150 on the forums. Tunes are $65 a piece from Innovative or $165 for 3 tunes.

Also, did you already pay for the gauges? Those are not the 3 I would get.

 

yes i pulled the gauges out of my previous truck, what gauges do you recommend? a guy i know with a 6.0 bought a diablo for his truck for just under 350 and he loves it, didnt know know if they was any good,

 

Well on most forums the Diablo is known as the "pukinator" if that tells you anything. You can get into an SCT with custom tunes for less than $350 if you shop around for a used one.

Gauges:
Fuel pressure #1 most important
Pyro if you're running a tuner
Engine oil temp
Engine coolant temp

The last two need to be monitored together to watch the difference in temp. This difference will tell you if your oil cooler is becoming clogged, which leads to blown egr coolers (if you still have one) and eventually blown headgaskets.

Boost gauges is more for fun than anything
Trans temp I only recommend typically if someone is towing really heavy and often.

 

i have real easy access to an auto engenuity so i figured i could grab that every so often and check eot, ect and fuel every so often, and my egr is welded closed.

 

You wont be able to get fuel pressure readings from AE. That is the #1 most important, that needs to be monitored constantly, not just every so often. The ECT and EOT you could monitor every so often I suppose.

If you've already got these gauges there is no point in not putting them in, but the other three I would seriously consider adding at some point.

 

okay, i think im going back to the quad pod and going to run pyro/boost/trans/fuel for now and jus use the ae for the eot and ect temp for now untill i get the extra money for em. thanks Mdub

 

No problem! Good call on the fuel pressure gauge too!