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Let us know how this turns out for you. I've had a Pulsar on my truck since about April and haven't had any issues. Although, the truck does occasionally alert to an issue with the electronic throttle control. If I turn the truck off, and then right back on, all but the engine light goes off and the truck runs fine. I need to take it to the dealership but just haven't made time to do so. And I don't know that this has anything to do with the Pulsar, as I believe other members who don't have the Pulsar are reporting the same issue. Plus, I really like the Pulsar's performance mode and I'd like to keep it if possible.
Hope the new one works for you, Captain.
Exactly this. If you look at the problems people report with the Pulsar...it is the same exact problems that people are having with the trucks without any tuner. It’s the first year of a new gen truck with tons of onboard electronics. There are going to be electrical gremlins and kinks to work out
I've had my Pulsar installed since last April with no issues. The extra power is great and I love being able to switch between different levels of power. I did do the update to it when I first got it which has to be done with a cable hook to it from your laptop computer. I bet a lot of people having problems have not updated software to the current software. I'm going to try and do another update soon just in case the tune has been improved.
The problem is if you live in a stupid state like new york or california you getting it professionally tuned makes it illegal to drive on streets and the state actually finds out and sends you to a referee to verify that it has not been changed from stock. This happened to a friend of mine who had his computer unlocked and tuned and he had to buy a whole new computer from the dealer and instal it to get by the referee. Most of us cant really afford that or have the time to swap it out when ever we do a smog check but with a pulsar unit in stock nobody knows and my other friend who has a pulsar checked and it passed. For people who use thier trucks as trucks and not race cars the pulsar will do fine and if you want a race car get a corvette or demon!
That's not a tuner though. If people want to tune a throttle controller is not what they are looking for.
I did the i3 with the spare pcm. Just returned it to get the T2. For the little extra money I think the upgrade is worth it. Last I looked it was less that a $100 difference. Also look at Jay Green for tunes.
thanks! how do you like the tune? big difference? Is the jay green tunes similar to the hemifever ones? Ive heard guys on here talking about the Jay Green ones
In my opinion hemifever does more of the same tune for everyone while jay personalizes it more. The can tunes are pretty good. Depends on what you are looking for but unless you have a lot of add ons outside of a CAI and exhaust I think the can tunes will be all you need. There is for sure a difference but I wouldn’t call it a big difference. Noticeable but not jaw dropping. Also depends how much throttle boost you give it. People love the pulsar cause on performance mode the throttle boost is as much as they safely can allow so it feels way quicker.
