one more day til i get to open the Predator!!!

[LegMaker]

ok, ok, so for those of you who recall my torment of not being able to play with my predator when it came in a couple of weeks ago, due to my wife putting the clamps on cuz it was for my christmas present, tomorrow i get to open it and play!!! woo-hoo!!!

question - any tips for a tuner newbie????? i have 93 octane here and i have basic bolt on mods (cai, hi-flo cats, cat back, etc)..... any tips on what has worked well for you guys. raised shift pionts, rev limiters, fan temps, etc. really looking for some insight please!!!! thanks fellas!!

 

[TNCHARGER]

I dont know anything about the Predator Chris other than what I have read. I was talking on the phone yesterday to the guy that bought my former SRT8..he loves the predator and is amazed by the power increase...the car is stock except for a CAI and catbacks....he said something about an "R17" tune being great?.....anyway Merry Christmas my friend..:thumb2:

 

[LegMaker]

thanks larry!!!!! merry christmas to you and yours as well!!!! take care my friend!!!

 

[Blown7]

You may want to leave it in it's wrapper, looks like SCT is close.
Birdy told me.

 

[LegMaker]

how much better is that going to be?????

 

[LegMaker]

thanks curtis!!!! did you ever dail in the cmr tunes you were getting from dave at B&G????? still interested in this route as well!!! just do not want anything too hot without spending some time on a dyno......

 

[TNCHARGER]

What Curtis said about the 17 shifting harder....Phil (owner of my SRT8) said that he tried the 18 but it did not shift near as hard as the 17 so he went back to the 17..

 

[LegMaker]

i see.....one of the things i like about my current b&g is that it shifts harder.......

 

[LegMaker]

thanks a ton curtis....... will send pm...... already sent pm with my email......

 

[LegMaker]

thanks curtis!!!!! i soooooo appreciate the help!!! expect a call sometime next week!!! hahahahaha

 

[NYCSRTATE]

Lucky baystard!

Enjoy.

 

[markus]

curtis you are currently running heads/cam with a predator tune? do you have it piggybacking on a b&g flash? how do you like it? was it all custom done or did you use a canned tune?

 

[LegMaker]

oh why thanks tony!!!!

 

[LegMaker]

Chris ,

Do you know if your wife also got you the ubs cable which allows you to connect to your computer? You will need this to download files from computer to predator and vise versa. Also required to send tunes from email to load to predator.

yep, got the pred and the cables!!!!!

 

[LegMaker]

Marcus,

Custom.

I sent tuner my base file B&G file through the predator format and he started modding it from there. Each time I sent him my dataviewer logs of the runs and my LM-1 Wideband logs via their software Logworks2, he would send the base file tune back with his changes. I got 2 tunes on the predator now a race 100 octane and a street 93 which I can load in the car depending on Octane available. If i go on a long trip I load up the 93 as 100 may not be available.

this is kinda what i was thinking of being able to do. would like to get things more dialed in, but i do not have a wideband set up in the car......from my understadning, the a/f numbers logged on the pred are not clean enough to really help a cmr tuner correct????

 

[LegMaker]

ur good to go. Call if you get stuck

thanks!

 

[markus]

Marcus,

Custom.

I sent tuner my base file B&G file through the predator format and he started modding it from there. Each time I sent him my dataviewer logs of the runs and my LM-1 Wideband logs via their software Logworks2, he would send the base file tune back with his changes. I got 2 tunes on the predator now a race 100 octane and a street 93 which I can load in the car depending on Octane available. If i go on a long trip I load up the 93 as 100 may not be available.

curtis,
many thanks. you are a wealth of knowledge. have you tried using just a b/g? if so is it a noticable difference?

 

[markus]

thanks man. ive heard nightmare stories about heads/cam cars running a predator but you have put my mind at ease. thanks again!

 

[LegMaker]

curtis - for those that have heads/cam, but no wide band, things would be ok if they had a cmr tune on a dyno so to read and monitor a/f correctly. once this is determined, and the tune set, no need for a wideband correct????