crisko182

i recently purchased a banks big hoss diesel tuner for my 01 i installed the chips and took it for a test drive i noticed some increase in performance but not near as much as expected i also do not get very much black smoke at all is this normal or is their something i dont know about.

blackdiesel

banks is crap... basically. step up to edge products, tst products, injectors, or a smarty. or a combination of them. sorry you had to learn the hard way tho!

Tiger Rag

Yep, that is a normal reaction to having installed a Banks product. Maybe you can take it back to where you bought it. Banks over promises and under delivers. Hate you had to drop the cash to learn that. I hope you can return it.

Good luck, Matt

crisko182

well i dont think i can return it but i have heard that i can stack it with a superchip would this be worth the money or what would be better for the $$400

Charlie8301

Usually banks has some 30 day money back thing, but I dont think you get a 100% refund.

Randy

crisko182

well i will call banks and see what they say what is all this i hear about smarty how much power will this smarty add

Tiger Rag

The Smarty is awesome. It is not so much as what you measure on a dyno as the seat of the pants feel it delivers. It makes your truck much quicker from a stop and delivers great torque for towing down low. Couple it with a fueling box like a TST and you've got an awesome combo.

On adding the superchips, I don't know about that. I would think both do timing and you don't want 2 boxes that do timing stacked together. One that does timing and one that does fueling works great together or you could get a box like the Edge Comp that does both pretty well.

crisko182

well i have been thinking and i think what would be the best for right now would be to save a litlle and do a p-pump conversion i think my vp44 may be going so if i do the p pump conversion i can just adjust the fuel plate and boom bring on the power the only prob is is that i know there is a kit for it but it is still difficult to do the conversion and i dont think i am good enough to do this myself any ideas on a good place to get help in the dallas area

rebal

GET a smarty and stack the big hoss on it.!! you will feel it then!

blackdiesel

get the smarty and a tst pm3 and you'll have a monster. chunk the bank$

crisko182

well would it help if i stacked a diablo power puck on top of my banks chip i have one just laying around

Charlie8301

banks and power puck dont stack well

Deezle1

Do yourself a favor and get rid of the banks all together, and get a Smarty and PM3...banks is big bux and little nutz!

Dom

Tiger Rag

If you are already stuck with the Banks and can't return it, you could add a TST pm3 to the Banks. Just let the Banks do the timing and the TST will do your fueling. You have to be careful that you don't have 2 boxes trying to do timing.

jefff929

on the lighter side



If the Banks stickers are on, they claim to add like 210 hp don't they?