First forum post, hey y'all! 

So I'm looking into getting a new tuner for my Cummins, but it's quite the jungle out there, I've come to find. 

I see the guys over at PowerDriven Diesel use the Quadzilla Adrenaline tuners, and I kinda trust that lot with all the R&D they put in these engines, but would it be the right tuner for me, is the question?

I'm not looking for a tuner that'll supply me with a million horsepower and enough torque to rotate the earth backwards if I launch it too hard in 4WD, but something that'll add around 100-150hp. 

Having that said, I already have a Smarty S03, and I read elsewhere on this forum that it fuels weirdly, requesting 100% fuelling at 40-50% throttle, which sparked my interest so I went over to a mate, ran off with his datalogger and had a look, and lo and behold, it fuels really aggressively. No wonder it feels like you have LOADS of low end and then some, all while just lugging and flooding the turbo.

I don't feel like the Smarty is what I want, I want a bit more grunt than the Smarty can provide and am open to suggestions.

 

That said, I'm also unsure of how much power my truck produces, the previous owner handed over receipts for everything he'd done to it.

It's a 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 Sport, with the 24v 5.9 Cummins and the dreaded VP44, luckily that's nearly brand new, so there's that.

It has 100hp BD Diesel Injectors, PN 1075823

BD Diesel SuperB Single Turbo Kit, PN 1045220

AirDog Raptor 150 lift pump

Uprated billet single disk converter

47RE with shiftkit, rebuilt not too long ago with Alto "Red Eagle" friction bands and clutches.

Running it at the moment on the Smarty S03 SW#5 with some more sensible Revo settings.

Anyone willing to estimate the power output of this thing? I'd reckon closer to 300hp, but who knows. 

 

I'm also curious what they mean when advertising injectors as "+100hp" injectors, because surely, just swapping injectors won't add power? Unless you compensate with more air and fuel delivery?

15 minutes ago, Dynamic said:

he problem is that there is ZERO electronic control of transmission line pressure in a 47RE or 48RE. Line pressure rise is 100% dependent upon throttle (and subsequently TV cable) movement. These transmissions suffer from a severe lack of line pressure in stock form, and then when you take away 30%, 40%, maybe even 50% of its TV cable travel for a given amount of power output from the engine, things don't exactly improve.

 

Bingo... Thanks for confirming what I was thinking!

In other words then, I'll be dropping some cash in on PDD's site or Goerend's site to beef the drivetrain up even more. 

Oh boy. 

Dynamic sells transmissions and parts as well. 

Oh? Nice. It'll be down the line though, just got in some 35s and 18" rims, which set me back a bit.