rip 112

You ain't lying, buddy!

mattf

I assume you are suggesting a smarty, which confirms what I'd been thinking, I was just hoping to get out of it a little cheaper. The smarty website did say that the california truck they tested did show more improvement than the other trucks.

ropnjessi

I would definetly look into your gear ratio's, when you upsize the tires like that you take away from the rpm's, you will loose power.

Spooler

The 04.5 have the throttle cable also.....I have one.

jwb600

those a local guy that dynoed 525 out of his 03 5spd with a tst/ats downloader stacked, he will chime in. well silverbullet turbo also. the trk was stock other than that. so you can get power out of it.

mattf

I know the engine has potential, and now that I'm finished making it breathe I can look into the electronics aspect. I don't want to ruin the truck, I still have to drive it to work everyday, and I can't break the bank either, I'm a poor soldier. But I love my truck and want to be able to smoke all these powerstrokes runnin' around on post. Also, my rearend is a 3.73

jwb600

well I know the feeling Im not exactly loaded myself I got a personal loan to build my tranny. I work full time to pay for my stuff nobody helps me out. I run a smarty for power right now and I like it. it will put out some smoke if you want it to. I have ran edge, bully dog, tst before and all of them make good power. just dont buy anything banks and you should be fine. guys on here say that the diablosport stuff works really good on the 03/04 trks but I dont know if it works on the cali edition. the stuff is reasonably priced too.

jwb600

it all depends on what power stroke it is. some 6.0s run pretty good with not much on them, even thought I think the motor is junk. the 7.3 has to have alot of parts to dyno anything. all depends on what they are. I have a buudy with tons of parts on his 7.3 and it still doesnt have 400 at the wheels. I put down 80 more hp than him on the smarty with no other power adders

mattf

Its good to hear that I'm not the only one on here that can't buy every thing he wants for his truck. I'm hoping to go on another deployment fairly quickly so I can make some money. But I have been looking at the smarty pretty hard for the right now, it has a great rep 'round here, and the smarty site says it makes for power on a cali truck than the rest, resulting for my detune I suppose. There is a diy propane set up in this forum called homemade propane or something that looks real cool, I'm just worried about drilling into my $400 banks airbox that didn't do sh*t for me, not to mention blowing up a truck that I'll be paying on for the next 8 years.

BossHogg

There are +'s and -'s from what Ive read between the 03-04 and the 04.5+'s! I personally think the 04 I have drives great, and seems to have a more simplistic mindset. No kitty, gets better gas mileage, and doesnt have a ton of electronic stuff on it compared to the brand new trucks.

The newer trucks have the 3rd injection even, which helps with adding power, but as far as longevity, they are all the same.