TST question

[Coonrod]

I am about to buy the TST. I was going to hold out for the Edge or Quadzilla, but I am tired of waitng.



Should I get the model that has built in gauges or not? I already have Dipricol gauges on the A pillar. I would rather save the money and get the one without.



It will be going on a 600 Auto. I already have the AFE intake also.

I know I will have to respect the box or I will burn up the turbo or transmission.

 

[LThurman]

if you have the guages already you will be alright but you lose the ability of the max egt shut dn. Your right foot would do just as good though. I can't speak from experince about the transmission but in my paper work that came with i think it said 3/3 was the max you wanted to push the stock auto. There are several threads on turbo's and the tst boxes. I would refer to them.

 

[mattymac]

The one with guages is nice I already had autometers but I figured if Im going to spend the 7xx for the chip whats another $100? cheap insurance in my book.

 

[SRadke]

The one with guages is nice I already had autometers but I figured if Im going to spend the 7xx for the chip whats another $100? cheap insurance in my book.

Yea, same here. Plus it's nice to drop the egt cutoff down to about 1000° if I ever loan the truck to somebody



-Scott

 

[Don-T]

I bought the TST with the guages. I already had guages installed so I used both until I decided both sets were consistant then I removed the analog guages. 3/3 is a good setting for the auto trans. I tries 5/5 and it was OK for several thousand miles and then the converter started to slip. Now anything above 3/3 makes it slip. I am going to leave it on 3/3 until I get around to upgrading the trans. I am thinking about removing the TST box this weekend and sending it back for a re-flash. It sets a crank sensor code from time to time, I think that will be fixed with the reflash though.

 

[daytripper63]

Just got my TST box back from being reflashed to get rid of single ping/knock noise on deceleration,

reflash is apparently a whole new program on chip cause setting 8-8 dont have the kick my box used to have on 4-2 or 4-4 I miss the kick it used to have, I would be happy with a program somewhere in between the old program and this new reflashed program.

I will say EGTs are no longer an issue but that is a side effect of power and I dont have as much any more...



If anyone whom was concerned about buying a TST box cause they might break something... I dont think that is an issue any more... Not as much punch down low like old program.

Robert