Bully Dog Tuner (40417 vs 40450)

Any pros/cons for one vs. the other on ther Bully Dog Tuners for our trucks.

There is the 40417 GT Platinum and the 40450 GT-T-

Both are listed for my 09 Tacoma 4.0L.

 

people will tell you they dont work.
weather that is true or not, i dont know.

 

well I found both on Amazon for good price, 343.00 for 40450 and 349.00 for 40417

 

get ahold of defconbrix, he has experience with it.

 

No appreciable gains will be made. Use the $350 for something with real value.

 

I live next to bullydog and a few of my close friends work for them. I wouldn't put their shit on my truck. That's just my opinion.

 

20 hp and a gauge reader/code reader seems pretty decent for the money

 

20 HP? LOL
Not in this world or any other.

You won't even get half that.
But it's your money. Waste it if you wish.

 

Also,
Let's just pretend that we live in imagination land for a minute.....

What is your truck gonna be able to do with 20 more HP that it wasn't able to do before?

 

won't happen. if it were true, everyone on this forum would have it.

 

Just thought it would pair nice with Banks Cat Back Monster Exhaust, K&N Cold Air Intake, and AFE Silver Bullet Throttle Body Spacer....should be an increase of around 40 including the Bully Dog...that's close to 20% hp gain from the 236 stock hp

 

I can't tell if you're trolling or not? You don't honestly think you're going to get 10hp with all of that stuff, yet alone 40?

Cat back exhaust will net you maybe 5 horsepower if you're lucky, mostly all you're gaining is some noise.

The K&N intake will also net you 0 horsepower, and gain you some noise.

What makes you think a throttle body spacer is going to do anything? They're snake oil. If anything, get an intake manifold spacer, there is at least some actual evidence that they can help a little bit.

 

OP's dreams -

 

A TB spacer does gain you just a hair of torque gain but it's very minor and not worth the money in my opinion. And just so you all know the kid that let BD use his supercharged 4.0 to build the tuner ended up selling it last year with lots of engine noise. Our local dealerships owner let them borrow his 2014 supercharged tundra so they could build a tuner for it. They returned the truck on a trailer with no tuner and a blown up motor. Choice is yours my friend. Like I said I live right next to them and my friends could hook me up with custom tunes for my cummins but instead I have an edge chip on my cummins

 

OK, thanks for the input, just don't have the $ for the Super Charger

 

buy once, cry once

 

Don't waste your money. Like everyone else said, spend the money on something else more useful.

 

they asked to use my truck cuz I have a SC so they could build a tuner for the first gens I told them to get bent.

Every time you have Enough money for something stupid like a tuner or a TB spacer just take that money and hide it then eventually you will be able to buy a SC.

No joke everything I ever own will have boost from now on.

 

Throttle body spacers havnt done shit since the days of throttle body injection... Now things like the intake manifold spacer that makes intake runners longer will change how power comes on for more low to mid... But overall power is going to be the sameish

 

I brought my '13 Tacoma Sport (non-supercharged) into BullyDog for a few days of testing and on the Dyno it increased my truck just under a 10hp increase. I have a drop in K&N filter and a MBRP single exhaust. My fuel economy has also increased an average of just over 1mpg so far on just over 70 gallons. (Still on stock gears and 35's so when I do regear I will see an even bigger increase)

I haven't had my trailer lately to test the towing benifets but that was a huge seller for me - I wanted the tow mode shift patterns etc. that's where I hope to see the biggest improvements having a tuner.

On gas engines you won't get the crazy gains you do with tuners when compared to a diesel but if you plan on keeping the truck for awhile that extra mpg and hp is well worth it in my opinion.