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i have a 2014 chevy silverado with a 57 series K&N and a outlaw exhaust system, i wanna get long tube headers and a throttle spacer. would I need a performance chip for the headers? and if i put the headers in without the chip would it hurt my engine?

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Throttle spacer is a complete waste of money. Zero benefit. 

Installing headers without a tune won't hurt anything. You'll get more out of your mods with a tune. 

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This is how I do it. 

 

No such thing as perfor.ance chips anymore. Get a tuner. Spacers are junk. But intake/tb is worth it. Tune on e85 with those mods is worth good power.

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6 hours ago, paracutin said:

Throttle spacer is a complete waste of money. Zero benefit. 

Installing headers without a tune won't hurt anything. You'll get more out of your mods with a tune. 

Ok scape the spacer idea. What is the is a good tuner? Thinking Diablo or Edge? 

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5 hours ago, That.Chevy.Guy said:

Ok scape the spacer idea. What is the is a good tuner? Thinking Diablo or Edge? 

Diablo, Edge and there is a third one that I can't remember the name of right now. They are all made by the same company. Go to their website and chat with them. It's the same freaking guy at all 3 sites! He told me that they are the same. 

My truck is not tuned. I'm not a risk taker and don't want to jeopardize my power train warranty. 

Handheld tuners are good. They are convenient and easy to use. They also have the ability to display some cool info. For the ultimate performance I would suggest HP Tuners or EFI Live. 

My first tune will probably be HP Tuners. They are the only ones that can currently tune the 8 speed trans. Hopefully there will be others by the time I am ready. 

1SLOW1500 can tell you all about HP Tuners if you can get him to slow down enough to do it. No offense man but some of your posts are hard to read. Punctuation, caps and grammar are not your specialty. I love the information so please don't take that the wrong way. 

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2 hours ago, Jacoby said:

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HPT is overkill!!!

No, HP Tuners is doing it correctly.

 

OP, E85 + and a proper tune is what you need before anything else.  That will give a bigger gain than anything else you are considering.

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7 minutes ago, Nitrousbird said:

No, HP Tuners is doing it correctly.

 

OP, E85 + and a proper tune is what you need before anything else.  That will give a bigger gain than anything else you are considering.

Please, if possible I’d like to hear NON E85 suggestions too...this tuning is all new to me. I know I can convert to E85 with my 6.2 (2018 so tranny tune is too involved) but I have no place to buy E85...well I can but it’s 170 miles away.

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8 hours ago, SS502 said:

Please, if possible I’d like to hear NON E85 suggestions too...this tuning is all new to me. I know I can convert to E85 with my 6.2 (2018 so tranny tune is too involved) but I have no place to buy E85...well I can but it’s 170 miles away.

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No E85 - no worries.  You are probably already running premium fuel as you have the 6.2.  From my reading, it appears that tuning the trans makes the biggest difference to how these trucks perform.  Yes, adding 40hp is great but not if you have torque management stopping you from putting it to the ground.   TM is just one aspect of the trans that can be modified.  I think you need to actually send the TCM in to HP Tuners to be unlocked.  Once completed, they return it to you and you or your tune shop can make the changes to it and the ECM.  It is also possible to purchase a TCM to send to them so that you can use your truck while they are unlocking it.

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2 hours ago, paracutin said:

No E85 - no worries.  You are probably already running premium fuel as you have the 6.2.  From my reading, it appears that tuning the trans makes the biggest difference to how these trucks perform.  Yes, adding 40hp is great but not if you have torque management stopping you from putting it to the ground.   TM is just one aspect of the trans that can be modified.  I think you need to actually send the TCM in to HP Tuners to be unlocked.  Once completed, they return it to you and you or your tune shop can make the changes to it and the ECM.  It is also possible to purchase a TCM to send to them so that you can use your truck while they are unlocking it.

Thank you, I do only use 93 premium and I appreciate the inputs! I will probably go the route of buying a separate TCM and letting them unlock it :thumbs:

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11 hours ago, Nitrousbird said:

No, HP Tuners is doing it correctly.

 

 

Yes, HPT is overkill for these trucks. I get the impression the OP is not looking to heavily modify his truck. If that’s the case then he can do more than enough with a hand held. And I’m not talking about uploading a canned tune and off he goes. He could do a custom tune with a handheld. Especially the one I suggested. 

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5 minutes ago, Jacoby said:

Yes, HPT is overkill for these trucks. I get the impression the OP is not looking to heavily modify his truck. If that’s the case then he can do more than enough with a hand held. And I’m not talking about uploading a canned tune and off he goes. He could do a custom tune with a handheld. Especially the one I suggested. 

You cannot tune the 8 speed trans on a 2018 with a handheld.  Period.  Tuning the trans makes the biggest improvement in how these trucks perform.

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He does.  User SS502 asked about a tune and he has a 2018 with the 6.2L.  

At least I think I am reading that correctly. :shakehead:

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