A Predator or ZTrinity sounds like exactly what you are looking for.

As has been mentioned, it offers great performance upgrades right out of the box, will improve mileage by 2-3 MPG on the highway, and will grow with you as you mod the truck inthe future.

Also, if you ever have to go to the dealer for any reason, you can flash the stock tune back to the truck with no trace of anything having ever been done.

The Predator also allows you to make changes like tire size or gear ratio, should you change those at some point in the future. If you sent your PCM out for a tune, you'd have to take it out of the truck and send it out every time you changed something.

The Predator has other nice features, like the ability to datalog your PCM and read and erase trouble codes if necessary.

Thanks
Mike

 

Most reputable tuners send you a replacement PCM with tuning changes done, and all you have to do is spend 5 minutes swapping out computers. There is no down time other than swapping computers. Plus, most of the tuners that we recommend usually get it right the first time, especially on a stock truck.

 

Exactly!

 

www.gowheatley.com

 

Blackbear is the way to go cheaper than the diablo I bought and a lot more power-the only joy that my diablo gave me was when I sold it on craigslist

 

You really shouldn't bad talk the sponsors. To the op it's all your choice diablo is the best out of all the hand helds, and also they're are alot of us that enjoy our dyno/street tunes.

 

I know Diablosport is a site sponsor and it's great they're supporting the site, but I don't get paid to sell products on here, they do. For chevy trucks, there is not handheld that can touch custom tuning. Period.

It doesn't effect me either way if the OP buys a programmer or gets a custom tune, but I will never suggest a programmer to anyone unless they feel like pissing away money.

 

IMO, buy the software, spend the next 6-12months screwing up your tune and reading about billion threads, then on the 13th month you should be going pretty good...



Honestly EFI Live and a wideband were my first mods i bought for my truck... If i could go back i would have bought it again first....

 

well said honestly I've never told anyone to buy a hand held lol.

 

I agree with them. The handhelds would have more value if they weren't price double or more than what they are worth. They are so close to the price of buying the full package tuning software that it doesn't make sense to buy a tune in a box. Also a custom tune from someone else will be a better tune and usually cheaper.