ok ive been reading alot on how a programmer can disable mds for a better response in the throttle and rid of that annoying sound. ive been reading on a superchips flashpaq or a diablo sportstuner. tuffy choice. alot of money there.

i have a 2008 dodge ram 5.7L hemi mds motor and im trying to get rid of that annoying mds bc of the sound of 4 cylnders cut off jus is a bust for the guy that loves the sound of his V8 and loves the overdrive but not with mds.

if anyone can right me in the right direction either SC or DST programmers i would be grateful. i live in alaska and hemi's are great up here but theres alot of chevy guys and i ued to be one until i wanted to prove to my other chevy friends that a hemi can prove the horsepower and torque that a stock chevy or ford cannot produce just stock unless u get the top of line chevy LTZ or a Ford Raptor!

cant wait to see if anyone replys thank you.

 

I am in the same boat as you..I was told BOTH units provide MDS Disable.Please correct me if Im wrong. I am choosing the SC Cortex.. I was told the SC is great if you dont plan on doing much more than a CAI,ehaust..maybe a set of shorties...Im doing all of the above and an efan

 

with your year trucks it's really a toss up. Some people, like me, have a year that Diablo does not support transmission tunes, and I personally think the tranny firmness is the single best feature of a tuner. So I have the SC.

If your future mod plans are such that you will need a custom tune (cam, heads, etc.) then the Diablo is for you, however if you don't plan on going that far, I kinda feel the canned tunes of the SC are a little stronger...

 

disabling the mds alone will just improve the throttle response time, not the actual shifts themselves. As long as your year has transmission support then you can use the tuner to adjust shift points. 05-08 you can use either SC or Diablo.

 

The SC3865 can turn off MDS. For a truck not heavily modified I think SC3865 does a good job. But to be honest I haven't any experience with the Diablo so can't compare them.

 

sweet thanks guys it means alot! i guess the SC is a way to go then!

-timberlind

 

For a lightly modded-stock truck and being an 08 I'd go with the SC for the full trans support. The diablo (DSP) is very nice and I do have it on my truck and it works wonderfully, but I do not believe there is full trans support for the 07-08's just yet (at least not user adjustments I believe) while the SC has everything right now or will very soon. So if the trans is your biggest deciding factor the SC is the way to go.

That being said, the DSP tune out right now is just sweet, and IMO pulls better than my old SC3815 ever did, plus added about a 1.5mpg gain on the 91 tune vs what I was running on the SC3815's 91 tune. Right now I am currently not running any trans tuning through my DSP (something with their latest release was not working right with reading some of the 05's TCMs, should be fixed Wednesday) but even without the trans controls its dropped my 0-60's from 5.76sec to 5.31sec (wish I had loaded this tune before I went to the track last time)... Also, again IMO, I think the options that the DSP has for tuning far out performs that from the SC and if you are planning on doing some modding beyond a catback and CAI it is the way to go.

Either way you cant go wrong