PHP Hydra tunes

i am thinking about replacing my old ass bully dog 6 position chip with a new PHP Hydra. It holds 15 tunes and the ones they offer are quite alike. i was thinking of getting 8-10 of their tunes, and fill the rest with custom ones. Any opinions on what custom ones to get? Any ideas on the PHP itself? Im looking to get better shifting and less smoke. Thanks Guys

The Hydra is the best tuner out there for a 7.3, what is currently done to your truck?

truck is pretty stock. gutted exhaust, 6637 air filter. would really like a good towing tune that will keep my trans alive. i dont wanna replace that again

Definitely get the hydra. I would recommend trying gear head tunes. Low smoke, good shifts and decent power

If the ebpv is intact, you can use the decel tune.

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Hey, thanks guys

Being mostly stock, you really don't need to spend the money on custom tunes unless you swap injectors. PHP has plenty of good tunes for most anything your gonna do with the truck. I would buy a Hydra, try out the tunes you like and see how it does. If after that you feel you need custom, talk too any of the tuners that cover the Hydra and see what they have too say.

Don't wanna hijack this, but any of you happen to know about how much would gear head charge to make custom tunes for bigger injectors?

No idea. Call/email them and ask.

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there is no reason to buy a hydra if you already have a chip. just send the chip to a tuner to be programmed with the tunes you want

m_j said:

there is no reason to buy a hydra if you already have a chip. just send the chip to a tuner to be programmed with the tunes you want

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Wrong. One of the main reasons of buying the hydra is to be able to load your own tunes to it instead of having to send the chip out. The other advantage is the amount of tunes you can have.

How often do you use those 15?
I use high idle for jumping people, leave it in the highest tow tune, only turn it down if I want to avoid dumping smoke everywhere.
Yeah, the convenience of hooking to the puter is nice. I push the hydra also, but since he already has this one... just needs tunes worth a damn.
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buy a burner and load your own tunes just like the old dayz.
for the OP a new chip is a waste of $$

TS style chip burners have been around for 10 years...(or more). For 200.00 you can buy the burner and have any tuner send you tunes that you can put on the chip yourself.

Now, if you just want the newer platform.....that's a different story but you can get tunes e-mailed to you on the TS platform.

Personally I feel the Hydra is the best tuner there is out there. Even if you did buy a burner for a TS Style 6 position you still have to remove the chip every time you want to re-burn it. with the hydra you are a one time install and its done. A tune gets emailed to you, plug the USB port into your computer and download all your tunes in five to ten minutes depending on how computer savvy you are.