Tuning the 7.3 in current times

DEEZUZ · Dec 23, 2021

What are you guys suggesting?

I have always had a 6 position chip and am currently with Tony Wildman. I dont think I'm changing but a friend wants me to build his truck.

I am not up to par with the latest and greatest.

Let's make the 7.3 great again.

mcnance865 · Dec 23, 2021

Hydra chip should be the only thing considered. There are no cons and no other chip has pros over the hydra. The stock PHP tunes are great for stock trucks. If not going with bigger injectors then I would recommend trying the tunes from the PHP library first. See what you like or don't like or want modified. This will give you a better starting point for custom tunes. The below list are the current go to guys. I have tunes from all of them on my hydra chip. They are all slightly different and most of it is just preference and the mood I am in. List in no particular order.

Jelibuilt (Brian Jelich)
SDK Performance (Dan Kropinak)
1023 Diesel (Dusty Hogate)
AA Tuning & Design (Andrew Arthur)
GH

DEEZUZ · Dec 23, 2021

We need great daily driver abilities and towing. Not a race truck. It will get a turbo eventually but no more fuel than stock sticks.

Right now we're working with a high milege engine that's PMR.

79jasper · Dec 23, 2021

Tuning has came a long ways. You can keep PMR engines alive at higher power unlike the old days.

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dsberman94 · Dec 23, 2021

I’d get a hydra. Saying that I hope there is still access to the php tune library and I’d just use those if he isn’t doing any more than stock fuel. No reason for anything more than that.

DEEZUZ · Dec 23, 2021

I swore low RPM killed PMRs

RascalMafia · Dec 23, 2021

I was planning on ordering a Hydra with GH tunes next week... sub'd

nsfr1206 · Dec 23, 2021

Another vote for the PHP Hydra...

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JohnT24 · Dec 23, 2021

What is PMR ?
Thanks

nsfr1206 · Dec 23, 2021

I put a link to another site so edited that out. But it’s the way Ford made rods. They did forged for some years and then changed to powdered metal.
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79jasper · Dec 23, 2021

JohnT24 said:
What is PMR ?
Thanks

Powdered metal rods.

CTC DEEZUL said:
I swore low RPM killed PMRs

From what I remembered, everyone was throwing too much Timing down low. So technically yes, but tuners know what they're doing now.

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Bugman · Dec 23, 2021

nsfr1206 said:
I put a link to another site so edited that out. But it’s the way Ford made rods. They did forged for some years and then changed to powdered metal.
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Just to keep things straight. It wasn't Ford but Navistar who built the 7.3 engine