Dr Performance??

[JLehman]

Saw this ad in tdr mag, wondering what the're all ab0ut?? anyone had there system or know anything about it?? thanks

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

In a nutshell they're all about having questionable and overpriced products sold with deceptive advertising.



My brother's inlaws had a Stage II kit installed in their '98 12-valve and had nothing but grief with it. Terrible smoke and poor MPG not to mention leaky injectors. Installed at the shop in Kellogg Idaho.



Vaughn

 

[BPonci]

Oh boy,not another Dr. P thread!

 

[Mad Bomber]

DR ??

Run the other way

 

[JLehman]

Thanks for the response and i tried a search first but it wouldnt take only 2 letters(Dr) Does seem a little unlikly that they could do what there ads say when no one else out there can from what ive read here. thanks again

 

[John_P]

Jlehman:



Vaughn MacKenzie is giving you some VERY good advice on

Dr. Performance!! I agree with him 100%!!



Back in 1998-1999 they ran extensive advertising in the

TDR and other publications saying that they could "out pull,

out drag, and out accelerate" any other diesel performance

company/modification with the ad going on to say "and

you can take that to the "Banks!" Like Vaughn said,

"deceptive advertising!" I personally ran against some

of their "Dr. P prepped trucks" at dyno events and drag

races across the country and can tell you that I certainly

was not impressed!!! For a short time, they claimed to

hold the "current world land speed record for a diesel"

@ 148. 536 MPH, that supposedly happening on or about

08/17/99 done at the Bonneville, Utah. We all know that

Banks Engineering has beat that now by a long shot!!

They also claimed a "quarter mile track record" of 12. 59

@ 109. 87 at Woodburn, OR. on or about 08/07/99.

There are MANY TDR members who are WAY BELOW

that and were back then too, so I just never saw the

big "claim- to- fame" of it all!!! Heck my 2002

Dodge CTD is not far off that 1/4 mile mark!!



Anyway, as the other member said, "run the other way!"



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John_P

 

[Hillbilly Hotrodder]

There's a big Dr Performance shop here in Weatherford, Texas where I live. Is that their main place or what? None of their ads list where they are, just phone numbers.



By the way, yes there are a ton of Dr P enhanced haulers in this neck of the woods. Mostly, it's the F450 horse trailer pullers though. There's a ton of Quadzilla trucks around too. Quad is about 20 miles from here in Lake Worth, Texas.

 

[MUDDY]

i posted several times on the subj of dr p. to make a long story shrt,,,,,,i installed a phase 2 on my 98. 5 and in testing it appeared to give half the gain of torque they advertied it to. it was removed less than a day latr as it made less pwr than my previous setup



imo, dr p is a crook

 

[Fueler]

my '01 had the good doctors phase II garbage when i bought it. no elbow for the turbo, no guages... it dynoed 242/474.



DD3's fixed everything.

 

[Wirenut]

How about Dr. Burkey He's cool

 

[Devildog]

When I first got my truck I called DR. Performance and talked about the upgrades. Every time he said "YA. . Sir. . " it sounded like HEEE HAAWWwww...... It turned me off, I didn't want a Jack Ass working on my truck and the "Bang for the Buck" was no where near what you get from other vendors. Just glad I do my home work before I make any purchases!