Hypertech max energy power programmer

[Steve's Chevy]

Anybody have any experience with them? I just want to know if it's worth the $300 to pick one up.

I'm on the fence with re gearing my truck because it runs real good but it could use a lil bit more power and a friend said that it really woke up his truck . I'm on 4" lift spindles running 285/70/17 and have 3:73 gear

This would be on a 2wd 97 silverado ecsb 5.7

Any info would be greatly appreciated .

Thanks.

 

[sewlow]

Got one for my '98.
Changed the shift points & firmness. Not a big dif.
Removed the speed governer. That helped! Hehe!
Changed the rev limiter point. Only allows +500 rpm. But it was just a V6. Not like that added any power!
Allowed re-calc. for dif. sized tires & wheels,(235/75-15's. 28.7"/721 revs. per mile,->295/40-20's. 29.5"/706 revs. per mile) and a gear change. 3.42->3.73. This alone made the cost of the tuner worthwhile! Speedo & tach are now darn close to dead on!
Other than that, as far as adding power, not a real big change. Just allowed me to drive a bit more aggressive without bumping up against the stock spec. speed or rev limiters.

 

[oohunter04oo]

Do you have to run premium with this tuner, or does it have different options to choose from. My superchips programmer in broken. I really want to fix my speedo.

 

[Steve's Chevy]

Do you have to run premium with this tuner, or does it have different options to choose from. My superchips programmer in broken. I really want to fix my speedo.

From what I understand you can pick the grade of fuel you want to run with . I always just run 87oct

 

[Steve's Chevy]

Anybody else have any opinions on the hypertech programmer? I'm not looking for a custom tune because I'm not sure what I'm doing with my truck yet.

 

[Jesse82nc]

Well with BBP, you can send it back any time for just shipping ($15) to get a retune when you make changes. IMO they do a better job than what the hypertech can do. BBP can make changes to more things in the PCM, and for less money ($200 vs $300). You would need to send it back 7 times for retunes for it to be more.

I love my BBP tune

edited - why can't I say their name? It deleted it from my post.

 

[///RAGMC]

I had a hypertech on my 99 it helped with mileage and shift points. I liked it alot and was good for its time. I had it set for 91 but it had diffrent tunes for any grade of gas.

 

[oohunter04oo]

I didn't realize a BBT was only $200. Hmmm

 

[bluex]

Well with BBP, you can send it back any time for just shipping ($15) to get a retune when you make changes. IMO they do a better job than what the hypertech can do. BBP can make changes to more things in the PCM, and for less money ($200 vs $300). You would need to send it back 7 times for retunes for it to be more.

I love my BBP tune

edited - why can't I say their name? It deleted it from my post.

It's filtered out because one of the admins here also does tuning

 

[Jesse82nc]

It's filtered out because one of the admins here also does tuning

Ah I see that now after hunting around. I thought EFI Live Autocal only worked on 98+ GMT400s? I know it doesn't work on my 96, that's why I went with BBT.