Keep Smarty Jr or Jump ship to EFI Live

[Iron Horse Racing]

So after a lot of back and forth, ( was suggested I update the smarty jr, big mistake, update didn't have the deletes)
I finally tracked down a copy of the old tune and got the Dodge 6.7 running good again, then the head gasket went.....(that saga continues)

My question of the day, should I dump the smarty jr and go to EFI live ....

Con's

$450 .....for one tune which is all I need, its another 450 for the autocal so I have a method to re tune if for some reason it looses it's tune, like taking it to the dealer and they re flash the ecm, even though I instructed them not to, but I had the hand held and just re-loaded in the parking lot...
so it would be $900 total...


What I'm looking for is Pros...

What will I gain with EFI live....???
Claimed to be a better more custom tune?


When the truck was stock I was pulling a load (18,000 lbs) and getting 39 L/100 km, once all the deletes and the smarty jr in place it dropped to 24L/100km..

Will the EFI live do better??

 

[AreWeThereYet]

I had the Smarty jr on my 2006 ram 1500 hemi,.. very nice for a gas tune but the transmission shifting sucked ass. I sold that truck and bought a 2006 ram with the 5.9 Cummins and waited for the EFI live support to be released before I bought another tuner even though Smarty had support for the '06/'07 5.9. I bought the AutoCal and had Anarchy Diesel make my tunes, I then installed the CSP switch so I can switch tunes on the fly without having the EFI handheld plugged in,.. There is a reason EFI Live has been proven for Duramax and the Cummins guys, I'm glad I chose what I did.

 

[Iron Horse Racing]

I had the Smarty jr on my 2006 ram 1500 hemi,.. very nice for a gas tune but the transmission shifting sucked ass. I sold that truck and bought a 2006 ram with the 5.9 Cummins and waited for the EFI live support to be released before I bought another tuner even though Smarty had support for the '06/'07 5.9. I bought the AutoCal and had Anarchy Diesel make my tunes, I then installed the CSP switch so I can switch tunes on the fly without having the EFI handheld plugged in,.. There is a reason EFI Live has been proven for Duramax and the Cummins guys, I'm glad I chose what I did.

Heard they have better options for the Automatic's, but I'm running a 6 speed manual.....

 

[Dragon4x4]

The smarty JR is a good tuner for the everyday guy that just wants his truck deleted. I had the smarty JR on my 11 Ram its was great did the job just fine and you can still play with timing and fueling. I switched to H&S Mini max a couple years later because I wanted the trans tuning and gauges. The Smarty JR was still a cleaner burning tune for sure, it smoked less and was quicker off the line than the H&S.

Honestly 70% of the guys running EFI don't know enough about the tuners they just went that route because its a "Custom tune" and got sold that its a "custom tune". Yes the tune is a custom creation but its not built for your specific truck its built to cover most peoples needs. Unless your truck is strapped to a dyno and getting tested after every change that EFI tune is a box tune made for the masses and most would not know the difference if it had EFI or Smarty.

If your going to put some serious fuel and air mods on the truck than yes EFI live is the way to go and get it on a dyno, other wise its useless.

You might get a bit better mileage with EFI but kinda doubt it.

 

[Rkwhite]

Exactly what Dragon said.......