Hi Everyone,
Is there interest in a group buy discount price on the SCT calibrators?
We can program them for all models and years from 1996 through 2006 (RT/10, GTS, SRT-10, Ram SRT-10 and Ram Hemi).
With a group volume, I can get a better price from SCT and pass a 15% savings onto everyone. That puts the box, with three programs we put in based on your car and mods, at $509.
For those that may be unaware what the hand held flash device is, how it operates or what it does, the box plugs into your OBD2 diagnostic port under your dash. Once plugged in, you follow a series of prompts to save your stock program from the PCM and then load in the program of your choice. We have tunes for 91, 93 and higher octane. The programs optimize the air / fuel ratio and spark advance, giving you quite a bit more power and throttle response. The gains depend on the year and mods, but they're always noticeable. In addition to optimizing the tune of the engine, we can also turn off the downstream cat sensors (so you can run catless without a check engine light), activate the fan earlier, change the rev limiter, turn off the wide open throttle timer, turn off the torque management on the automatic Rams, etc, etc. All are very beneficial improvements in their own right.
We can make the group buy happen if we get at least 25 orders. If you guys are up for it, post on this thread to ask questions or just put your name down and we'll start a list. If we get enough people, we'll set up the actual order process. This thread will basically be for seeing how many are in so we can see what price we can get down to. If we get 30+, we will be able to drop to $500, which is SCT's minimum price.
If you guys want to do it, lets give it a try for two weeks, until the 25th of this month.
Here's an email from an owner after a simple fuel and spark tune on his stock 2001 RT/10:
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Back when you guys tuned my Viper, I was rather short-sightedly focused on the peak numbers. Everybody does that, I guess, and I even know better, but I did it anyway. The peaks were a little better than the VEC1 was able to give me (no VEC or tune 382HP/433TQ, VEC1 410HP/456TQ, SCT tune 437HP/480TQ), but the car FEELS so much better that I knew something else was going on. I thought maybe it was the rock-solid A/F mix, because I knew it wandered all over the place on my older runs.
Today I ran across my old dyno sheets, so I pulled out the one from the tuning run for comparison.
Both graphs start at 2000 RPM.
With the VEC1 I was making about 325 @ 2000, I peaked at 456 around 3600, had that characteristic dip, peaked again around 4400 and held until about 5000, then dropped off.
The SCT tune is totally different. At 2000 RPM it *starts* at 400 TQ and holds steady until about 2700, which is amazing in itself. Then it climbs steadily into the 480 TQ range at about 3700 and stays there until about 4400, where it starts to slowly drop off. The characteristic dip is totally gone, too.
I wish I could justify the expense of taking this thing to Sebring for a weekend. With it cranking out that much torque that low and that steadily over the whole RPM range, I would bet I'd see a huge difference. I do see a big difference just driving it around town. (And much to the dismay of my tire budget, it's easier than ever to slide that ass-end around... somewhere between 325 TQ and 400 TQ down around 2000 RPM must be the sweet spot for breaking loose a pair of 13" wide tires.)
I dunno, you guys probably have done similar comparisons already, but I found it interesting, and I figured I'd mention it just in case you hadn't looked at it this way yet.
--j.
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Is there interest in a group buy discount price on the SCT calibrators?
We can program them for all models and years from 1996 through 2006 (RT/10, GTS, SRT-10, Ram SRT-10 and Ram Hemi).
With a group volume, I can get a better price from SCT and pass a 15% savings onto everyone. That puts the box, with three programs we put in based on your car and mods, at $509.
For those that may be unaware what the hand held flash device is, how it operates or what it does, the box plugs into your OBD2 diagnostic port under your dash. Once plugged in, you follow a series of prompts to save your stock program from the PCM and then load in the program of your choice. We have tunes for 91, 93 and higher octane. The programs optimize the air / fuel ratio and spark advance, giving you quite a bit more power and throttle response. The gains depend on the year and mods, but they're always noticeable. In addition to optimizing the tune of the engine, we can also turn off the downstream cat sensors (so you can run catless without a check engine light), activate the fan earlier, change the rev limiter, turn off the wide open throttle timer, turn off the torque management on the automatic Rams, etc, etc. All are very beneficial improvements in their own right.
We can make the group buy happen if we get at least 25 orders. If you guys are up for it, post on this thread to ask questions or just put your name down and we'll start a list. If we get enough people, we'll set up the actual order process. This thread will basically be for seeing how many are in so we can see what price we can get down to. If we get 30+, we will be able to drop to $500, which is SCT's minimum price.
If you guys want to do it, lets give it a try for two weeks, until the 25th of this month.
Here's an email from an owner after a simple fuel and spark tune on his stock 2001 RT/10:
.................................................................................
Back when you guys tuned my Viper, I was rather short-sightedly focused on the peak numbers. Everybody does that, I guess, and I even know better, but I did it anyway. The peaks were a little better than the VEC1 was able to give me (no VEC or tune 382HP/433TQ, VEC1 410HP/456TQ, SCT tune 437HP/480TQ), but the car FEELS so much better that I knew something else was going on. I thought maybe it was the rock-solid A/F mix, because I knew it wandered all over the place on my older runs.
Today I ran across my old dyno sheets, so I pulled out the one from the tuning run for comparison.
Both graphs start at 2000 RPM.
With the VEC1 I was making about 325 @ 2000, I peaked at 456 around 3600, had that characteristic dip, peaked again around 4400 and held until about 5000, then dropped off.
The SCT tune is totally different. At 2000 RPM it *starts* at 400 TQ and holds steady until about 2700, which is amazing in itself. Then it climbs steadily into the 480 TQ range at about 3700 and stays there until about 4400, where it starts to slowly drop off. The characteristic dip is totally gone, too.
I wish I could justify the expense of taking this thing to Sebring for a weekend. With it cranking out that much torque that low and that steadily over the whole RPM range, I would bet I'd see a huge difference. I do see a big difference just driving it around town. (And much to the dismay of my tire budget, it's easier than ever to slide that ass-end around... somewhere between 325 TQ and 400 TQ down around 2000 RPM must be the sweet spot for breaking loose a pair of 13" wide tires.)
I dunno, you guys probably have done similar comparisons already, but I found it interesting, and I figured I'd mention it just in case you hadn't looked at it this way yet.
--j.
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