Ok guys, After doing a lot of research I bought a fairly priced 2005 excursion 6.0 PSD with 160,000 miles on it for our family to pile in on the weekends. Well, after she drove it, I now believe it will be her daily driver. Before I bought it I pulled a clean oasis report on it showing by the book service and no engine repairs or issues. Of course on the way home it threw a P0299 (underboost) code. I pulled the turbo saturday and cleaned up the ring, re-installed, cleared the code, and test drove it. It is running good.
In my research I put together a list of upgrades I am in the process of ordering. EGR delete, oil cooler, coolant filter/flush, blue feul pump spring, stc fitting, and stand pipes/dummy plugs (I've already got everthing else off anyways). Does anyone think I'm missing something or think anything is un-necessary? The head bolts have 4 or 5 numbers stamped on them so, I believe they are stock. The dealer I bought it from gave me a good price because "he said" he was using it for himself personally and had to replace two injectors... Now, we all know that used car sales men are just that... He is a toyota only dealer so, there could be some truth to what he said. He didn't know if they changed the filters or not during the injector replacement (I have 2 new ones).
Here is my hickup... I thought I was dead set on buying a custom tuned SCT from Eric but, then I read about swamps FICM tuning... I am ultimately interested in better fuel economy with more power being the bi-product. I read guys say running hot tunes with a easy right foot gets the best economy. I'm going to get the SCT with custom tunes regardless but, is it necesarry or advised to run the swamps FICM tuning too? Keep in mind that heavy towing is left up to my 6.6 duramax (fifth wheel) and I'm wanting this excursion to be a healthy daily driver that is extremely reliable and can occationally pull the seadoo's out to the lake.

 

I answered this in your PM, wish I knew you had a thread I would have just answered here.

Innovative does the FICM tuning for themselves and Swamps. So Swamps is only selling you Innovative FICM tuning. On the flip side, Innovative doesn't do 58V FICM's, they have Swamps do those for them.

Just call up Eric @ Innovative and get it through him. I'd just go with a street tune via the SCT right now and leave the FICM alone for what you're doing.

 

Swamps uses PHP's FICM tunes.

 

Since when? PHP can't even keep up with their own stuff? Hmmmm

I know the Innovative 58V units are from Swamps, it would make sense that Innovative does the tuning for them, but I've been wrong before.

 

Swamps have always used PHP FICM tunes.
http://www.swampsdiesel.com/prestashop/en/

 

Hmmm, good to know! I guess I was misinformed. I know Swamps does the 58V hot upgrades for Innovative.

Thanks for the correction!