Wahoo! 5-star tune on Ngauge downloaded

[Fish]

This. In more simple terms, it keeps the transmission in a lower gear for any given speed (greater than zero ), thus keeping the rpms higher into the power band and making the throttle more responsive.

You’ve probably noticed this if you forgot to slide the shifter back into “D” as you drove down the highway, your rpms never drop down into a normal range for cruising speeds.

Thanks Randy. I'm still waiting for my Ranger arrival so I'm sure I will see this as I drive it. Maybe will have it in about 3 wks.

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[Randy2400h]

For anyone that’s getting ready to install a tune for the first time, downloading the stock map takes a significant amount of time (+25 minutes), then after you email your stock file to 5-star (or whomever), they’ll provide custom maps. When you go to install the custom maps, the tuner WILL AGAIN back-up the stock file before installing the custom tune (+30 minutes). Once a custom map is installed, flashing between custom maps only takes a few minutes.

 

[Fish]

Should be nearly the same if not identical. 5-star can do some other stuff if you request it. I was talking with Andy on this forum. Apparently they can adjust the electronic clutch on the engine driven fan; he wanted for it to stay disengaged entirely until reaching a desired temp. Right now the clutch seem to engage the fan on every start-up, regardless of temp, then releases the clutch after X amount of minutes if the temp is below the desired operating temperature.

5-star will can also provide the ability to disable auto start-stop on specific maps. I want “ASS” on my daily driver maps because it saves me gas but it has no business being active on the performance maps.

Thanks Randy. Very good info.

 

[Andy]

Wow, that's pretty solid. You've got me hovering over that shopping cart button...

Can someone give me a short version of why one would get the ngauge tuner over the SCT/BullyDog/5star tuner? From what I can see on 5-stars site and elsewhere the ngauge is more expensive, but can't discern what makes it worth more.

In addition to what has already been said, I went with the NGauge since it’s always there on the dash where I can keep an eye on the exciting data. I have my gauges set up to show cylinder head temp, boost, oil pressure, high pressure fuel valve percentage, knock, and learned octane.

However, if all you want to do is tune the engine both devices will do the exact same for you. Just depends what you want out of the device.

 

[VAMike]

I saw this yesterday - this is a screen capture from a TFLTruck video showing results of 0-60 drag races between a 2.7, 3.5 EB and a 5 liter V8, both before and after tuning. The results surprised me

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[LewisLegacy]

Would there be any significant difference between buying an nguage tuner and tune from 5-star directly vs. buying the tuner elsewhere and getting email tunes from 5-star? I'm seeing that I could likely get them cheaper from separate sources.

 

[Doc]

Update on the tunes.

I was having a pretty good time burning through gas around town, but I finally had to put the daily driver & tow map into the truck today. The shifting is noticeably not as firm as the performance map, but still more natural feeing to me than the way the truck shifted stock; a very excellent medium. It takes a little more throttle before it starts building +15psi boost numbers but it still gets there and still provides a dramatically better mid-range response over stock. I knew my oversized tires were negatively effecting my average MPG indicated by the truck due to the speedo error, but now the Ngauge has allowed me to correct the tire diameter to 32.09”. My highway mileage is now averaging 24.8 MPG. Which I think is impressive considering I took out front end rake with my 2” leveling kit and I’m running oversized tires (275/65-18).

Can you still manually shift the automatic with this tune?(upshift/downshift button)

 

[Randy2400h]

Would there be any significant difference between buying an nguage tuner and tune from 5-star directly vs. buying the tuner elsewhere and getting email tunes from 5-star? I'm seeing that I could likely get them cheaper from separate sources.

Besides the “5-Star Tuning” boot-up page on the Ngauge, I don’t think there would be any difference. If you find a cheaper combination I would just call 5-Star and see if they can come close to price-matching it, save yourself some footwork.

 

[Randy2400h]

Can you still manually shift the automatic with this tune?

Yes. It definitely still shifts manually while in “S” (Sport) mode while using the +\- buttons on the shifter.

 

[Doc]

Yes. It definitely still shifts manually while in “S” (Sport) mode while using the +\- buttons on the shifter.

But the performance tune is in the drive mode?

 

[Randy2400h]

But the performance tune is in the drive mode?

Yes. On the performance maps you’re getting the same engine tune for both “D” (Drive) and “S” (Sport) modes. The only noticeable difference between “D” and “S” is that “S” keeps the engine in a lower gear for any given speed, allowing it to be more responsive.

 

[Doc]

Yes. On the performance maps you’re getting the same engine tune for both “D” (Drive) and “S” (Sport) modes. The only noticeable difference between “D” and “S” is that “S” keeps the engine in a lower gear for any given speed, allowing it to be more responsive.

Thank you for all the good info...btw does the drive mode eliminate the 1 3 5 shift ?

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