Semopar Forum

Stealth Mode · 08-15-2011, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by Smitty

Thanks for the info...

I have no personal experience with Banks...Seems to be one of those things where someone might have had problems with one and it went from there. Example, Rammer likes his Quad, but on one of the other forums, Quad owner thinks it is a POS.

The Cummins folks (owners, not the company) do not seem to like Banks...Think he bad mouthed them about making to much torque...lol

Bank's add's double tq over hp... Exactly what diesel's need. Our F350 don't come off the Xtreme tune. It's so fun to be rolling at 70 and stomp it and kick it sideway's. 9400lb Truck too....

I won't get another Programmer for the next diesel unless it's a BullyDog.

**03 Rammer** · 08-16-2011, 05:44 PM

I've been hearing with the Bullydogs lots of guys spiking high voltage to there injectors causing injector melt down with the bully dogs. I have 3 buddies that have had that happened to all went to edge after that.

**03 Rammer** · 08-16-2011, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by Stealth Mode

the 7.3 was a demon diesel.

and a leaky one at it lol 7.3 were known for tons of oil leak issues.

**03 Rammer** · 08-16-2011, 05:49 PM

Smitty, honestly I think from the sounds of it. Your not crazy into wanting to go fast and hot rod the truck. That's fine. From reading up on cummins forum when I was looking around seemed alot of older gents went with banks because they have been around forever, safer power gains with tons of warning features and simple to use. If that sounds like what you want go for it. I almost did but wanted a little more hp/tq gains than what banks had to offer.

**Smitty** · 08-16-2011, 07:41 PM

In most ways I am happy with my Smarty Jr. Up to 100hp, some timing, throttle response tuning. I set it on the 70hp (towing mode) and it works like a champ. I just want something more convenient..."on-the-fly", that I can change with out having download every time.

**4XLGator** · 08-16-2011, 07:49 PM

I think my earlier post (#33) might have been premature. While talking with Smitty this evening, I started thinking a bit differently about what I said in that post. So, I am not ruling out one or two of the ones I previously ruled out...LOL....this is forever changing as time passes, research is done and discussions had.

Analog gauges may not be in my future because of this, especially considering the following. If you buy a tuner/programmer with a digital display you get gauges and the tuning, which is actually less money than the analog gauges I want plus a tuner. In addition, installation is more difficult and time consuming with analog gauges due to wiring and probes/sensors.

So, I'm somewhat back at the drawing board.