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Old Oct 13, 2007 | 07:11 PM
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i know its been asked a million times but i was woundering what the best tuner is for a 2000 3.8l5spd mustang
Old Oct 13, 2007 | 07:42 PM
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i would go with the xcal 2 or 3.
Old Oct 13, 2007 | 08:46 PM
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my SCT XCAL 2 is sitting down at ups wait ing on delivery mon il let you know how good it is on tues
Old Oct 13, 2007 | 10:12 PM
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i had the diablo and it worked great but when i got more mods i traded it for an xcal2 and got it tuned by justin and i love it....xcal2 ftw
Old Oct 14, 2007 | 04:01 AM
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xcal b ecause it has more options but diablo if ur on budget
Old Oct 14, 2007 | 07:12 AM
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it depends, if you plan on doing larger mods in the furter find a dyno shop that looks like a good shop with good prices and find out what tuner they use. if they use xcal get an xcal if they use diablo get a diablo. either one will do the exact same thing for you but the shop will need the same brand they use to be able to properly tune your car.

if you dont plan on ever getting a dyno tune then it makes no difference at all. both will give you the same gains. some people say one is better than the other but there isnt any difference really.
Old Oct 14, 2007 | 11:24 AM
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I love my xcal2 definately noticed a big gain in performance and like the options on it. Great customer service to if you buy it through vmptuning and have justin tune it. He always replys back. But I had to get an xcal over a diablo cuz im an 04 3.9. Diablos dont work for those engines.
Old Oct 14, 2007 | 03:08 PM
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I vote xcal .

I have the LiveWire and love it.
Old Oct 17, 2007 | 10:01 AM
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the biggest reasson im asking this is because i need to fatten up the air fuel ratio at 65+mph and can probably only do that on a dyno. my car seems to be running way lean at 65+ mph and threw a code that says lowegrflow but i cleand everything so now that problem is fixed but its still running lean and yes i do have bigger pans to the little v6 in the near future
Old Oct 17, 2007 | 12:12 PM
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justin can do email tuneing if you have a wideband you can hook it to the sct and datalog it and send him the data log just as good as dyno tuning


i got mine and love it the shifts are so much better and they shift hard i only have the shifts up on 15% coming out of 1st and it will chirp them going into 2nd you can go as high as 25 and aslow as 0 im assuming o is stock and 25 is hard shifts







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