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Old Jul 9, 2010 | 12:08 PM
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First off - I'm completely new to tuning so I'm open to any and all feedback about tuning or options I've not listed here. I would prefer to own the tuner than get a 'mail order tune'.

I'm interested in getting one of these two units (Diablo Predator or SCT SF3).

From the perspective of someone who has never used a tuning device before, which of these is easier to use and are there any advantages disadvantages that are unique to one over the other?

To be used with a 2005 LS2 Vette....

Thank you!
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Canned tunes such as the type you are suggesting are only going to work on a stock car. Once you mod the canned tunes in such a unit are actually pretty far from optimum.

Get a real tuning software package and learn to tune your own car.

Start here:

WWW.HPTUNERS.COM

You want the MVPI pro tuner. They have a forum that discusses how the tunes work.
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Originally Posted by No_Replacement
First off - I'm completely new to tuning so I'm open to any and all feedback about tuning or options I've not listed here. I would prefer to own the tuner than get a 'mail order tune'.

I'm interested in getting one of these two units (Diablo Predator or SCT SF3).

From the perspective of someone who has never used a tuning device before, which of these is easier to use and are there any advantages disadvantages that are unique to one over the other?

To be used with a 2005 LS2 Vette....

Thank you!
The SCT is a flashing tool, your tuner needs to email you the tune and you flash it using the X3. You can't make any changes to the tune only the tuner can. The predator I believe has some tunes already loaded. and you can make some changes to it.
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