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does anyone know about programmers for tow vehilces?  Do they work?  I want to put one on
my  Chevrolet 1500 Silverado.  i am looking  for  a little more power and torque

a guy I met with a 2500 said he put one on and blew his motor so be careful.

thank you for letting me know that.  I will be careful. 

D, as you know i have a diesel and they make tons of programers for them. i looked into them and found similar info as above as being concerned about making too much head presure and having a failure. with gas engines you may just be able to adjust the shift points on your auto transmission and get the desired effect without messing around with  the timing and ignition.

what programmer should i be looking at?

supperchip, evolution,

i didn't finish, hypetech, diablosport, jet powertech, and the one that i found most interesting for diesels other than banks is a company called bully dog i looked it up and they have gas applications. bullydog.com. some of these companies have it where you can change the program on the fly so as your not burning up your engine.

Hello, I have used superchip programmers on several of my work vehicles. On gas engines the biggest differance is in the shift points, not realy great improvements in power or fuel milage. On diesel engines if you set them to tow safe setting they realy come to life. If you use the high performance mode you MUST have an exhaust temperature gauge as you will overheat and blow a turbo quick. The trucks I've used them on were Ford F150 5.4 gas, Ford F250 6.0 diesel Ford F350 7.3 diesel, and we are getting ready to put one on the new Ford 6.4 diesel. I also have it in the plans to add one to my wifes Dodge 2500 5.9 Cummins diesel. Just my .02, good luck and do a lot of research first.

call Alex at sniper tuning,he is the one who started superchips back in the day.. or go to snipertuning.com, hes a straight up guy, i got 150hp on my dually and love it.call me and i will give you his number, he does all lugos performance mustangs so he has to be good!

Hey D,    Bully dog and super chips are two of the best programers on the market. Both companys offer on the fly adjustments. They will allow you to adjust shift points for towing andthe real high end kits will allow you to aadjust the timming. That is something I would not recommend playing with. To much timing in an engine can lead to an engine failure. You can run them to lean ( to much air not enough fuel) and burn holes in pistons. The other extreme is run them to rich ( to much fuel not enough air) and the engine is unable to burn the extra fuel,and you end up with poor fuel mileage and other problems as well.