Best economy chip for 7.3 psd ?

[Kiwif150]

Hi all , My Father has just brought himself an 03 F250 7.3 psd - it has 460km on the clock but has had an $8500 trans rebuild and a new turbo in the last 12 months .It's Brazilian built factory rhd .... he picked it up for 25 k which is a bargain here as that's about the cost of a rhd conversion if we'd imported it.

He brought it to tow his boat which weighs about 3.5 ton and is looking for a programmer that can tune for economy and also tune for towing ...... our speed limit here for towing is 90km/hr (55mph ish) and 2/3 of his 400 mile trip would be in hilly terrain with many 20 mph corners.

What do you guys reckon would be the best programmer to buy?

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[compressionignitionrules]

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I installed a 2 position superchip program on tow safe to my 2003 e350 with 7.3/4r100. it lost me aprox 1 mile per gallon towing but improved the shifting so much from stock I left it in and ended up retiring the van about 200,000 km later at almost 560,000 km . no issues with trans , fuel pump puked on crappy diesel and I decide to call it a loss.

my van had 235/85/16s and 3.55 gears, I played around with different tire sizes but didn't change my economy much, with 215/85/16s it had a little more snot into hills . i my van weighed in around 7000lbs and I pulled anything from 4500lbs to over 10,000lbs gross. my trailer weighs 3000lbs empty.

 

[79jasper]

I would get the hydra, but I don't know if you can find shipping to you.

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[greenskeeper]

First you need to repair the steering wheel as it is on the wrong side of the cabin

Second as mentioned try to get a hydra chip....I have TDP economy tuning and it gets me another mpg or two.

 

[Kiwif150]

First you need to repair the steering wheel as it is on the wrong side of the cabin

Second as mentioned try to get a hydra chip....I have TDP economy tuning and it gets me another mpg or two.

Well we got the Hydra Chip . fitted it and what a different truck to drive - can actually clean up a 3.2 ranger until 65mph now!!!!!

That took a Brazilian team a long time to get the steering wheel moved over so i think we'll just have to leave it there for now

 

[fraree]

That took a Brazilian team a long time to get the steering wheel moved over so i think we'll just have to leave it there for now

As I've said before, the steering wheel is on the "right side" down in the southern hemisphere
Our A/c systems have a lot longer pipes/hoses due to the RHD conversion too !

 

[fraree]

Hi all , My Father has just brought himself an 03 F250 7.3 psd - it has 460km on the clock but has had an $8500 trans rebuild and a new turbo in the last 12 months .It's Brazilian built factory rhd .... he picked it up for 25 k which is a bargain here as that's about the cost of a rhd conversion if we'd imported it[/ATTACH]

Mate, he got a pretty good buy for $25k, they're $45k upwards over here for those models

 

[Kiwif150]

Mate, he got a pretty good buy for $25k, they're $45k upwards over here for those models

Yep , he did well ..... been looking for a couple of years and when this one came up he just whipped out the checkbook - mostly they are 40k upwards here unless there is something wrong.

 

[13fcolt]

Digging that aluminum bumper.

 

[compressionignitionrules]

nice Roo Bar too!

 

[Ben94122]

I think it's aluminium!

Digging that aluminum bumper.