The Tune by SVC

[Yukon Joe]

I tuned my truck with the SVC tune last night after pulling off my Volant intake and replacing it with the stock intake.

Holy SHIT! I have roughly 14,000 miles on the 5Star tunes, mostly 91 performance, and within 150 miles of driving on the SVC tune I can guarantee you the SVC tune is a night and day difference.

Shifting is silky, silky smooth; the truck is never searching for gears and quickly drops down a gear or multiple gears whenever I punch the accelerator. As far as engine power goes, the truck flies now. Jeff and Jarrett weren't kidding about the third gear pull, 30-92 mph is intoxicatingly fun now. I don't have actual dyno numbers, but based off seat of the pants feel alone my now 100% stock truck with the SVC tune feels faster than the truck did with the Volant CAI and 5star 91 performance tune did. It's that good of a tune.

The way the truck drives is different from the 5star tunes. While Mike's tunes are good, they aren't smooth and I've always never been really happy with them because I felt like something was off about it. The power delivery wasn't as smooth and consistent, the truck would sometimes respond jerkily. While 5star shifting is light years better than stock, the SVC tune shifting is a world's difference (better) than 5star.

My fuel economy has been absolute shit though, the truck is now so fun to accelerate around everywhere and annoy the hell out of my girlfriend in the passenger seat trying to play games on her phone. It's seriously like a whole new truck.

I realize the SVC tune is expensive for a canned tune, but after driving on it I appreciate the extra effort put in and overall quality of the tune. I'm the type who will almost always spring for the higher quality product; local craft beer over PBR, Fox over Ranchos or Icons, Raptor over FX4, crack ***** from Compton over birdman's mom, etc, etc. sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it's not. In this case it absolutely is.

Quick note: I know this review is overly glowing about this tune. I wasn't paid for the review, my Instagram followers will know I'm not the biggest SVC fanboy, and those of you who know me personally know I'm pretty straight forward about things like this. I'm genuinely thrilled with the tune and wanted to share my thoughts with you bros.

I'll continue to report as I put more miles on, but as it stands right now, this is a 5 out of 5 stars tune (pun intended).

Isn't your truck for sale?

Yukon Joe
www.RUNRAPTORRUN.com

 

[Huck]

Isn't your truck for sale?

Yukon Joe
www.RUNRAPTORRUN.com

Exactly what happened to the fire sale?

What would be great is if it released during down hills / coasting.

Most vehicles I've had in the past when you left off the throttle it coasts, the raptor slows down.

I get the weight / inertia / momentum.

Just wish it would "kick out" when not on the throttle


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[Westside Offroad Group]

Isn't your truck for sale?

Yukon Joe
GREAT LAKES RAPTOR EXCURSIONS

Much like Raptizzle when he was selling his truck, I can't stop adding little things to it.

Plus I'm gonna keep it a few months. Still need to rewrap it, line-x the new bed, and fix little niggles like the passenger side door handle and passenger airbag sensor before I sell it / buy something different, so until then I wanted a good tune on the truck while I drive it around daily. $250 was a drop in the bucket for this truck.

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Exactly what happened to the fire sale?

What would be great is if it released during down hills / coasting.

Most vehicles I've had in the past when you left off the throttle it coasts, the raptor slows down.

I get the weight / inertia / momentum.

Just wish it would "kick out" when not on the throttle


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Fire sale happened. I sold all of the parts off of the truck, including wheels, tires, front and rear suspension, psr, bumpers etc. Now I can sell the truck for as little as $43k and make more than what I was asking when it was all put together

 

[nsdq3]

JB post

I tuned my truck with the SVC tune last night after pulling off my Volant intake and replacing it with the stock intake.

Holy SHIT! I have roughly 14,000 miles on the 5Star tunes, mostly 91 performance, and within 150 miles of driving on the SVC tune I can guarantee you the SVC tune is a night and day difference.

Shifting is silky, silky smooth; the truck is never searching for gears and quickly drops down a gear or multiple gears whenever I punch the accelerator. As far as engine power goes, the truck flies now. Jeff and Jarrett weren't kidding about the third gear pull, 30-92 mph is intoxicatingly fun now. I don't have actual dyno numbers, but based off seat of the pants feel alone my now 100% stock truck with the SVC tune feels faster than the truck did with the Volant CAI and 5star 91 performance tune did. It's that good of a tune.

The way the truck drives is different from the 5star tunes. While Mike's tunes are good, they aren't smooth and I've always never been really happy with them because I felt like something was off about it. The power delivery wasn't as smooth and consistent, the truck would sometimes respond jerkily. While 5star shifting is light years better than stock, the SVC tune shifting is a world's difference (better) than 5star.

My fuel economy has been absolute shit though, the truck is now so fun to accelerate around everywhere and annoy the hell out of my girlfriend in the passenger seat trying to play games on her phone. It's seriously like a whole new truck.

I realize the SVC tune is expensive for a canned tune, but after driving on it I appreciate the extra effort put in and overall quality of the tune. I'm the type who will almost always spring for the higher quality product; local craft beer over PBR, Fox over Ranchos or Icons, Raptor over FX4, crack ***** from Compton over birdman's mom, etc, etc. sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it's not. In this case it absolutely is.

Quick note: I know this review is overly glowing about this tune. I wasn't paid for the review, my Instagram followers will know I'm not the biggest SVC fanboy, and those of you who know me personally know I'm pretty straight forward about things like this. I'm genuinely thrilled with the tune and wanted to share my thoughts with you bros.

I'll continue to report as I put more miles on, but as it stands right now, this is a 5 out of 5 stars tune (pun intended).

I don't personally know JB, but after reading a ton of his post (mostly critical), I gotta try this. SVC send me a PM when you have a tune available for a Volant CAI (with scoop). I also have a Corsa extreme cat-back, if that matters. Thanks

 

[ZBoater]

I'm going to wait until there's more info out there before pulling the trigger. It sounds good, but the incremental benefit over a full set of 5Star tunes for $250 is still a big question in my mind. YMMV.

 

[starkall]

Is a tune available for the air raid intake and SW lightning exhaust.


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[EFTOBIAS]

I don't think I read anything about this, but would changing the gear ratios require a re-tune?

I would assume that would be a factor, I know a lot of people running 37s are also running 4.88 gears - 4.56 gears would be as close as possible to evening out the ratio... when actually evening out would be 4.34 - so there is disparity there.

Are you guys planning to do tunes for the regeared rear/front ends too?

 

[ZBoater]

The SCT canned tune lets you specify a gear ratio.

 

[dfass16]

A little update after driving the truck a few days and letting the tune settle in some. First off its for sure a performance sided tune..the hard the trucks driven the better it seems. The tune has definitely sharped up as far as the slight hesitation while shifting and still extremely smooth compared to the previous tunes i had. Was cruising in 6th and pushed it to the floor it dropped to 3rd and and put me in the seat with no hesitation or harshness in the shifts. All and all im pretty happy with it specially what it does to the supercharged engine/drivetrain. As far as the cost of it, it comes down to this....Good work isn't cheap and cheap work isn't good.

 

[TurboEd]

A little update after driving the truck a few days and letting the tune settle in some. First off its for sure a performance sided tune..the hard the trucks driven the better it seems. The tune has definitely sharped up as far as the slight hesitation while shifting and still extremely smooth compared to the previous tunes i had. Was cruising in 6th and pushed it to the floor it dropped to 3rd and and put me in the seat with no hesitation or harshness in the shifts. All and all im pretty happy with it specially what it does to the supercharged engine/drivetrain. As far as the cost of it, it comes down to this....Good work isn't cheap and cheap work isn't good.

If you have a supercharged Raptor it is not the same efi tune at all. Maybe the trans is the same. But you are on an almost entirely different and way more complex tune by svc I believe.

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If anyone changes differential gearing and/or tire size you need that programmed to your tune.