Hey Guys,

I know there is not alot of praise for these tuners on here, but I wanted to give my .02 cents. I picked one up used from a friend for $210 the other day, updated it (took forever) and did the 87 Octane tune.

I've got some experience with tuning having owned a G8 GT in the past so I can honestly say this tune makes a pretty decent improvement. I know y'all recommended that I go with a dyno tune or go with Blackbear, but I'm up in Canada, and the dyno tuners I talked to wanted alot of $$$ to tune my truck, which is basically stock except for an Airaid MIT. I also wanted to keep it under a certain budget so that I don't have to sleep on the couch when my wife see's what I spent.

There is a big difference in the way the transmission shifts. Even if I picked up only a few HP right now, the truck feels totally improved in terms of driveability and transmission feels less sloppy and way smarter; more responsive with crisp shifts.

I'm getting a Diablew custome Tune in a few weeks also.

* I just wanted to make reference to my G8 GT and the superchips cortex tune that I had. My neighbour had the same car as me we both had intakes and catback's, but he had a custom tune. His car put down 334WHP and my G8 with the superchips tune put down 313WHP on the same day same dyno. -- On the street from a dig or a roll, I could pull on him everytime... And it was everytime my car shifted I'd gain ground. His dyno chart also only had a peak of 334, where mine was a more flat curve with no peak. So even though the diablo might not make as much peak HP on these trucks I still think its a decent tuner, especially if you can score a used one! I'm sure the blackbear tune is impressive, but for the $200 and change I spent I'm happy.

Thats my reveiw.

 

There was very little gain (hundreths of a second) when I when from my diablo tuner to a BB road tune. The shifting is where the best improvement was in the BB tune. I may have gained just a little better (1/2 mpg at best) fuel mileage with the BB setup as well. I really don't think the diablo setup deserves the bashing it gets around here.

It will be interesting to see what you think of your diablew custom tune down the road.

 

Congrats man on the find. Ive hurd some good and bad about your tuner. It should be fine. I know what u mean about the wife. If mine knew how much ive spent over the last year on stuff. I would be in the shed. Forget the couch.

 

Good to know! And yep i'll post a reveiw when I get the diablew tube done!

 

i agree. especially with the custom tune. i went from a superchips(felt strong down low) to a diablo predator(not as strong down low, but stronger up top) to a custom "diablew" tune(noticeably stronger everywhere compared to the other two "max tunes") to an hptuner for trans tuning abilities(feels slightly better than my diablew tune/trans tuning has alot to do with that tho).

diablo isnt as bad as others make it out to be. better than others thats for sure

 

i think diablo is the best for hemi cars. i was running 12.90@107 with stock longblock 5.7 2007 300c. datalog tuned for knock retard and dyno tuned for 12.5 afr on 93cai tune. johan helped out from diablo also. i was the fastest stock stall and rear gear 5.7 in the country with no custom cmr tune.

 

I purchased an inTune for my last truck, an 07.5 VortecMax. I noticed almost no difference after installing the tune from stock. I forked over the cash a couple months later for a BB tune and it was substantially better than the canned tune from diablo. If I had it to do over again I would have went straight to BB the first time, no questions asked.

 

BB FTW!

 

you should have gotten a custom tune for it, not that Justin@BB doesnt do good work, i know he does. but i can say that if you had done that, you wouldnt have noticed as large of a difference. everyone knows the canned tunes in the hand helds arent all that great or even good in some cases.

Either way, getting a custom tune through any one with some experience tuning, regardless who tunes it, will make you wonder why you waited on getting a custom tune in the first place.

 

I agree completely. However, the OP seemed to be talking about the canned tunes that come with the inTune.
I have not had a different custom tune other than BB but I am sure they are comparable. I would be hesitant to say anyone can beat Justin's tunes for these trucks though.