Back in the days of ODBI computers, a hard 'chip' would be swapped in by soldering a chip onto the motherboard which would give instructions to the computer ... much like a CMOS chip on a standard home computer.

Vehicles aren't chipped like this anymore. With the introduction of OBDII computers, which are about as powerful as a basic home computer these days, a lot of performance can be 'tuned-in' with these programmers.

Instead of hard coded instructions buirned into a chip, programmers are now utilized to do a lot more than a hard coded chip could do with flexibilty of the user to make choices and decisions.

Programmers are great because you can easily program your vehicle to mediocre, middle-of-the-road, and basic high performance settings for 87, 89, or 91-93 octane fuel.

While these prgrammers or 'tuners' are not professional tuning programs to set fuel trims and more technical professional type tuning settings, they do give you the basics of what is meant to give you substantially better perfomance at a really good value.

'Bang-for-buck', you can't get better overall peformance from any other modifcation for the price.

 

Ive got an 09 FX4 Super Crew, just installed the reg tune last night. I have the same ping as dpeckford and keith124. It happens just as you press the pedel down, its a faint raddle sound, only last a second or two. I'm going to call hypertech, maybe if enough of use call they will get the ball rolling on a fix, its that or I'm going to return the programmer.

 

A month or so ago, I got a call from my friend at Hypertech and he stated that had had a few complaints about the pinging issue. He said they had a new program and asked if I would try it. I did and all seemed to work well. They now have the new program set up and ready for downloading. Try updating your programmer and re-program your truck and see if that helps.
Good luck.
Jay

 

What octane level gas are you running?

 

I always run standard regular Citgo or Murphy fuel 87 Octane.

 

i posted this back in october. it is now dec-29th 2009 and the new update does infact get rid of the pinging issue, but it lost its power it feels like a stock setting acceleration feels like stock and gas mileage is same as stock. to be honest hypertech just cant get it right as of yet. its a big headache and waste of money. other features work well but tuning sucks..

 

I dont know what to buy! Is there any good tuners out there yet? I pick up my 2010 FX2 tomorrow and the 22"s will throw off the speedo. Thats the main reason i want a tuner. Only other things i plan to do is a borla muffler and remove the snorkle on the intake.

 

I installed a max energy programmer on my raptor last week and im pretty happy with the results it really seemed to compliment my AFE stage 2 intake. Ive been running the regular program so far havent tried the premium one yet but plan to in the future. I set everything the same except I took out the top speed limiter and set the shift firmness to 75%. At first didnt mind the firm shifts but driving the truck normally it just made the truck feel to rough for my liking so I put the shift firmness back to stock yesterday. Overall im happy with it but seems like the downshifts are a bit rougher since ive installed the programmer my mileage hasnt really changed to much but I seem to always want drive the truck a bit harder now cause I got more power lol.

 

hey guys little help clearing some things up please... with these tuners, hypertceh or otherwise is the settings somthing you manually adjust or are there preset programs you can load onto the ecm in new to this stuff so bear with me, looking to get one in conjunction with cai exhaust, hopefully headers, tbs etc and then tune it. basically what else do i need to know thanks

 

With the hypertech tuner there are some setting you set manually such as tire size, shift points, shift firmness, speed limiter, rev limiter.

If you decide on a hypertech I have one for sale in the classifieds yet at a good price.