LLY: Need guidance

CancerPipe

CancerPipe

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A guy I know asked if I would do some digging for him. He drives an 05 lly pretty much stock except for an air dog, race valve and edge programmer. He is wanting efi live. He doesn't just want a tune but wants efi live and a dsp tune. Any reccomendations as to who I should refer him to? He has a stock tranny and doesn't want to get into all of that.
 
Alliance1289

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In my opinion a DSP5s (or DSP2s for that matter) are worthless on stock transmission trucks. A good single tune is all he should really need.

The stock transmission in his truck is capable of holding ~100 hp over stock safely. If you run a DSP5 on that, each click of the knob is only going to net ~20 hp which in my opinion, won't make any difference by the seat of the pants. It may do marginally better in terms of fuel efficiency, but again probably not enough to notice.

A good well rounded single tune from someone like Kory, Mark, Rob, Nick etc.. should do the trick. And save some coin.
 
CancerPipe

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I completely agree on it being pointless to run a dsp tune with a stock tranny but to each his own I guess. Thanks for the input guys. Keep it coming.
 
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Hey guys im totally new on here and just need some help. I bought an 06' Chevy 2500 HD crew cab back around Christmas this past year. Been driving it ever since without a problem. I was headed in from work the other day and it start revving itself up and down on its own and just took off by itself. N i mean screaming away. I finally managed getting the truck stopped in park and turned the key off but the truck just kept screaming with the key off. I finally popped the hood tried unhooking wverything but it was still just screaming away, i had no clue, but then i jerked the air tube off the intake and grabbed a board out the bed and used it to cut the trucks air flow off. Even tho it was to late and now i have a blown engine, as a result, what could have made it so this? I have been told by guys that work on heavy equipment that the turbo strted using the the trucks oil amd caused extreme damage. I mean why? It never made a strange noise or appeared like nothing was wrong til it was too late. No warranty and now stuck looking for an engine, n praying that the full coverage will at least paying for the wiring amd such that is destroyed. Just looking for a lil advice and some answers. Anyone ever seen this happen?
 
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Duramaxtuner.com has tuned ecm's they sell, one tune in a remapped ecm, seriously plug and play, remove the stock ecm plug in the new ecm and your done. Thats what i would do.
 
1SIKDZL

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I wouldn't do it until he gets the tranny built. I am running a stock tranny on mine with the PPE hot +2, and I am on barrowed time. If I put mine over level 5, it slips out when I am in 5th gear and floor it, it goes into limp mode. A tranny build is my next mod, so I wouldn't waste my money until the tranny is built.
 
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If he does go dsp he really shoud do a transgo shift kit at a minimum. Anything close to 100hp over stock is going to be causing damage/wear on a stock trans, in fact even 80hp over is enough to cause some trans life depletion.
 
LWATSON

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Dustin Mintern was mentioned earlier. He is one of the best lly tuners out there. And it is not a waste getting a Dsp5 for a stock trans truck. You will be able to run a max effort tune for playing around, a daily driver tune with a little less HP, tow tunes and an economy tune. Everyone that I know of that sells tuning to the public have dsp5 tunes designed for stock trans trucks.
 
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