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I am looking at buying a HP for my 03 Silvy, with a 4.8! I have heard they are the end all to tuning these trucks. I literally have 0 experience level on this subject, but have been reading everything I can get ahold of. Amy suggestions on how to learn more?
Its easy, just plug in to truck. when it loads up, just push the increase power button, then choose your octane level, boost level, shift points, tire size, rear gear ratio... simple as that, wait... thats hypertech.... jk, Its not easy, and the only way to learn is to read, read, and read some more, then start small. If you can find someone that is GOOD with hp tuners, they could help a lot, but there are not many people out there... lots of wannabe tuners... You will be much better just getting a tune from someone like Nelson performance.
If you have a stockish truck you should just buy a tune. If you constantly need to be changing stuff then hp is nice to have. Nelson provided a great base tune and now I fine tune myself instead of bugging them for 100 retunes a year.
Well, I have a stockish truck, on its way to being built. I am gonna need my own tuner
Start reading in five yrs buy hptuners. Its not like vipertech and those Atari lookin things. Thousands of table adjustments.
Dont flatter yourself in here saying its on the way to being built. The two that gave you the best advice run 9s for fun. Thats built! And $$$$$$
Where you from? If you are near a reputable tuner have them do it for you. If you live too far away from a good tuner then email tune is a good plan. If you aren't going FI or big cubes I would suggest a mail order tune from NP or the likes.Quote:
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Hp Tuners website is a nice place to read and learn, a stock truck is a nice platform to start out at, build as you learn pending how far you planing on going with the truck.
to answer the last question in red is by buying it and taking baby steps and learn as you go
I have a 03, 4.8 w/ the 60e. I have a CAI, cut cats and a flowmaster. Next thing I need is a tune. After that, I'm starting on a trans build, or a built rear. Eventually I'm doing a 6.0 swap, with nitrous and possibly a cam. That's why I want to buy an HP
Sounds to me like you are a perfect NP mail order customer. They have probably tuned about 50 trucks exactly like yours.Quote:
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Couldn't agree more.Quote:
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You're also in the perfect spot to learn how to use it. With a stock truck. Do your research, tune your stock truck. Ok do your bolt ons and with knowledge you gained tuning your truck the first time, do it again. Build on your knowledge. Comes time to cam it, repeat.
Even the pros are learning everyday. Now days there's all kinds of stock motors running around the 20psi mark. Four years ago, there would have been parts everywhere. Guys were blowing up 5.3s on 10psi and had good guys tuning them, but as they've done more and more they've learned more and more. And now we have guys taking stock blocks into the deep 10s in full size trucks.
Sweet! That's why I want to buy an HP. Cause yea, I can pay my neighbor $300 to tune it for me, or I can buy an HP, learn to use it an tune my truck as I go along. Is there a manual or some literature that I should buy that is HP specific?
Th HPTuners forum is your best bet. There's lots of write-ups and people are quite helpful.
best place is have a clue how a vehicle works first, know what makes a motor tick. then read the software windows...the forum may help some but doesnt help everyone
For sure. Reading the forums didn't help me much at all. Trial and error, reading the info below the tables, and pestering you and Casey with ridiculous questions got me where I am... Which isn't very far.Quote:
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I know I am not that good with hptuners yet, but I have found no one thing is the silver bullet except maybe a pro teaching you step by step. Otherwise it comes down to a little bit of everything. Read a lot, watch whichever videos you can get your hands on(I wouldn't pay for the banish DVDs again although I still own them), use the forums to ask questions, practice using the program as much as you can, and try not to blow anything up. :lol: it all comes with time.
Thanks guys. Can y'all explain credit system to me? And maybe also what all it takes to unlock the computer?
Please go to the hptuners website and read. We are here to help, not provide answers that are easily accessible to you with minimal effort.Quote:
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Justin, why is the sky blue?
Its blue?
Mines not blue today. Got some white falling from the sky though.Quote:
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There is snow where I am at. I have tried reading and understanding this stuff guys. Trust me, I don't looking like a dumb@ss when I can help it.
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it'll be alittle more easier to understand if you have the software in front of you ;)
Alright. Hopefully in the next two weeks it will be on its way.
If my truck was tuned by Nelson is the computer unlocked or do I have to buy more creadits?
Allen will likely lock it, and yes if you've never plugged in to that truck before you will have to license it.
Ok I'm needing to do some tweaks n didn want to have to wait on all the shipping
it cost 50 bucks a credit. and you need a bunch because you will end up spending them on the wrong thing once or twice. hp tuners is great but you do really have to know what you are doing. where talking page after page of tables with hundreds of numbers to be adjusted. if you adjust the wrong thing you could fry your vcm. if you adjust the wrong thing the wrong way you will blow your engine. i would listen to these guys and try to research as much as you can. if you know little or nothing about ltft and stft, or kr, or map, maf, ve, pe, stoich, and so on then hp tuners is not for you. you dont just need basic knowledge of vehicles to make hp work, you have to be a learning machine and be willing to stay up late many nights going over logged data and reading about what it is exactly you are adjusting or may need to adjust. i will say that after basically telling you to not get hp tuners, i will say one last thing. i dont believe anyone gets a tuner like hp and just knows everything right from the start. i believe it is a long learning expierence for any buying a tuner like hp for the first time. that guy people talk about that is really good at tuning, he had to learn all of it somehow, and it was by frying vcms, and blowing motors because of bad tunes that he got that good. anyways thats my 2 cents.