Hey all
I've never done any tuning before. I've been reading a lot about it and I'm liking the way it sounds. 97 5.9 ram sport 4x4 btw, does anyone know where I can talk to someone about this?

 

Hemifever Tuning. He is the only one I am aware of that supports pre-98 trucks.

 

I don't know if your year truck uses a speedometer gear or not. My 96 does, and when I changed my tires and gears I bought a different tooth count gear and swapped it out in literally a couple minutes. Maybe this will help:

http://www.transmissioncenter.org/sp...e_and_jeep.htm

I've also got the hemifever tuner on my truck (1996 SLT 1500 4x4 5.2 auto 4.10 gears 2" lift 285/75/16" tires). I've only been running the 87 octane tune though so I don't really feel a big difference.

 

That post was almost two years ago.

98 and up don't use speedo gears.

 

That's funny; I didn't look to see how old the post was. Maybe I should start looking at dates from now on before commenting. I do a lot more reading than posting on this forum. Hopefully he's figured it out by now.

And I knew somewhere in there they stopped using the speedo gears. Now I know when - 1998. Thanks! Changing speedo gears was so easy; then they had to go make it difficult.

 

But, its oh-so-much-better....... Yeah. Right. Uh-huh.

You aren't the first, and won't be the last.

 

when I did my fathers custom tune on his "cough, cough, 06 Silverado" it was through blackbear performance and what they did was send me a data logger and ask me what kind of driving I will be doing, then sent me a pcm. it woke that truck up like I never could imagine, really couldn't believe the gains in the seat. compared to my superchips what a waste SC is. does the sct do it in a similar way; data logging and stuff.
his data log consisted of: his frequent highway driving, in town driving, step incline pull (large hill) and a couple WOT pulls thru 1+2 auto
I thought that was really thorough and custom. he doesn't have a programmer with different tunes, but it is free to have them retune for something else. again I was impressed with the gains!

 

Hemifever has 'canned' tunes for lightly modded engines, do things like alter fuel/timing tables, and turn off torque management, adjust shift points, etc. I haven't seen anyone complain about them yet.

For custom tunes (which cost more), data logging is pretty much a requirement. he just sends the tunes though, you put them onto the tuner, and then upload them to the PCM.

 

Can't wait to get mine should be here next week and all steering components will be done also. Be like a brand new truck!

 

Don't get too carried away with your expectations...don't get me wrong, the tuner is good and is definitely a nice addition, but your truck has 3.55 gears and 33" tires i'm assuming from the info in your sig...and it seems that all you'll have done as far as mods go is the tuner and exhaust. You'll probably notice a difference with the 91 octane tune, but don't expect to feel like you've got a hemi under the hood