Pentastar tuning?

[B-g-K]

Hi all,
I'm new here. I've had my '13 quad can 4x4 with the pentastar 3.6 for about 5 months now. I'm very impressed with it and the 8 speed torqueflite so far, especially coming from all v8's in the past including a hemi. Went to the smaller engine because I'm on the road so much for my job (sales manager for cummins) and I'm averaging 23+ mpg with 75% highway. Any of you guys know anything about any tuners available so far for this set up? Looking for the option of more power, and if possible an even better mpg tune. Thanks in advance.

 

[NYCruiser]

I would check with DiabloSport. I know their tuners support the 3.6 for the Jeep crowd. Maybe Ram too?

Company doesn't provide a vehicle?
Surprised you aren't driving the Ram 2500 with the Cummins in it!

 

[B-g-K]

I would check with DiabloSport. I know their tuners support the 3.6 for the Jeep crowd. Maybe Ram too?

Company doesn't provide a vehicle?
Surprised you aren't driving the Ram 2500 with the Cummins in it!

I put 3500-4000 miles per month on my vehicle and they reimburse mileage, wish they just gave me something cummins powered to drive, but it wouldn't be very economical. The ecodiesel ram does interest me, I wish the Titan wasn't so ugly or I'd consider it with the new v8 5.0 cummins as well.

 

[B-g-K]

Just checked their site and it appears they don't support it, as of now at least. Probably not much of a demand for them yet. I had their predator tuner in the past on another vehicle and it was decent.

 

[NYCruiser]

That's a lot of mileage.
If you take vehicle depreciation and longevity into account the diesel would start to make a lot of sense for you.
At 50K miles/year your gas vehicles will be mostly shot by 3 years.
A Ram diesel could run 500k or more miles if you're not towing/hauling with it.

 

[B-g-K]

I usually turn them over every 12-18 months. The 2500 with cummins is just too much for what I do, and everything I tow the pentastar can handle. Next time around ill probably consider the ecodiesel ram, but I want to see how they do before I take the leap.

 

[WhiteExpress]

If you're doing a bunch of highway cruising, do a partial grill block.
I bet you'd see more MPGs.

 

[NYCruiser]

Yeah, I'm watching that too. Great MPG number and torque too.

 

[B-g-K]

I'm still not going to complain about the mpg's with this set up though. Pure highway driving at 55 mph I see 25.5-27 mpg average. 23 mpg overall is better than I expected for sure.

 

[NYCruiser]

I don't know how much better than that you can expect in a full size truck. Its gonna become a real trade off on utility to get over 30 IMO

 

[B-g-K]

I don't know how much better than that you can expect in a full size truck. Its gonna become a real trade off on utility to get over 30 IMO

Well, if you look at it trucks in the 90's were lucky to make 200-250 horse and about the same torque and get 13 mpg. I make 305/270 on paper at the crank and get 23+. They can do it if they want to. Just takes a lot of research and development. The oil companies dont care too much, they'll just lower supply and ramp up prices per barrel.

 

[smiley]

So true man I mean my mom had a little 93 Lebaron the thing got like 30mpg and 15 years later my wife had a Jetta that got 27mpg. The tech is there to be Better not worse. If they want good mileage to win they would be pushing diesels and not choking them down. Side note how is that Titan going to afford a new engine offering when they don't sell now? Cummins 5.0 sounds sweet though. I don't know if tuning companies could do any better than you do now really that is very good.


$miley