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Old Mar 30, 2005 | 05:31 PM
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Has any1 tuned their AUTOMATIC mustang with a diablo predator?

if so, wut have you noticed, and how much improvment have you notice?

whats the dyno for rwhp improvment?

Is it really worth 400$?
Old Mar 30, 2005 | 05:41 PM
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Yeah I have tuned my auto with it, and love it!!!!! [sm=happy046.gif] I totally think it is worth the money I spent on it (you can find it for less that $400 just have to look, got mine for $350) I am in the process of bumping up the timeing right now, I have bumped it up a little and am going to do a little more. As far as the auto go's I adjusted my shift pressure, and points, and now it chirps the tires every time it shifts from 1-2, and it trac-control is off, at WOT it will smoke them going into 2nd!!!! See my sig for the other mods that I have, but I would highly recommond it to anyone that has an auto. I am going to get gears sometime in the near future and will use it to adjust my speedo for that, and also when I get the o/r prochamber form mac I will shut off my O2 sensors. Well sorth the money IMO!!!!!!

I have not dynoed my car yet or before i started to mod, but when I do I will surely post it!!! I am waiting to get my pro-chamber before i have it dynoed.
Old Mar 30, 2005 | 10:11 PM
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How does it work? It is pretty straightforward? Do you need a lot of knolege goin in to get that done?
Old Mar 30, 2005 | 11:19 PM
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Just a question.... Why don't more Stang brothers & sisters help eachother out by tuning other cars in the area once they own a tuner? Maybe this happens & I just don't know about it but I would pay something to save on the cost of buying one which would help pay for the unit for the owner & help me out by saving me 300 or so bucks. Perhaps we aren't that organized?
Old Mar 30, 2005 | 11:22 PM
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Just a question.... Why don't more Stang brothers & sisters help eachother out by tuning other cars in the area once they own a tuner? Maybe this happens & I just don't know about it but I would pay something to save on the cost of buying one which would help pay for the unit for the owner & help me out by saving me 300 or so bucks. Perhaps we aren't that organized?
Because once you set a tuner to one car you can't change cars. The tuner remembers the computer on 1 car and goes by that. It is not interchangable.
Old Mar 31, 2005 | 09:20 AM
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How does it work? It is pretty straightforward? Do you need a lot of knolege goin in to get that done?

Yeah it is really strightforward, the only thing that I was not sure of when I did mine was how to set the shift pressure. It is call shift modulation on the predatuor and you can set it to STOCK, 50%, OR 0, if you want it to shift hard set it to the 0 setting.
Old Mar 31, 2005 | 09:40 AM
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When will the Diablo Predator get hacked? Maybe it already is...
Old Mar 31, 2005 | 10:29 AM
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sorry but kinda off topic (noob):

does anyone know if you can keep "retuning" with the predator? I'am done for the moment with my engine (finished cheap bolt ons - moving to suspension). I'd like to tune it but i will probably add more mods down the road. i'd hate to spend $350+ for a one time deal.
Old Mar 31, 2005 | 11:02 AM
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Yeah you can go in and adjust any of the permeters on the predator any time you want to and re-install the tune with the adjustments made. I am now just starting to adjust my timeing, I keep advanceing it a little at a time to too make sure that there is not knocking.
Old Mar 31, 2005 | 11:11 AM
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sorry but kinda off topic (noob):

does anyone know if you can keep "retuning" with the predator? I'am done for the moment with my engine (finished cheap bolt ons - moving to suspension). I'd like to tune it but i will probably add more mods down the road. i'd hate to spend $350+ for a one time deal.
DiabloSport can send you a custom tune for a little over 100 bucks. I wouldn't recommend having a cutom one made unless you are as far as you want to go with the modding process. The tune it comes with works fine.



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