Quadzilla questions

chumminz01

chumminz01

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I've had a offer to trade my Smarty for a Quad ADR with the control pod. I got a couple questions..
1. Is it worth trade with Quad closing its doors?
2. I love the low end of the smarty will I lose it with a quad?
3. How adjustable are the tunes with only the pod, just 1-10 or what?
4. Is there anyway to get new tunes?
5. I've read some on the buttons messing up, does this plague the pod or pulse monitor?
6. Will my clutch hold towing, can't remember for sure but it's 400-450 hp rating.

Just wanted your input, as compared to a seller talking it up.
 
I had a Smarty on my truck them went to a Quad, I thought the Quad was a huge gain over the Smarty.

I am not sure what the Pod controller is capable of. I believe it is only power levels 1-10.

I'd probably take the trade.
 
Depends the smarty may be more reliable, the Quad will give it a lot more go when the turbo gets spooled
 
id trade you im detuneing my truck and my quadzilla was reflashed days before they went mia... its set on a 3800 rpm tune tho...
 
I had a quad and had nothing but trouble with it in my opinion I would look for a drag comp I've had Myn for a few months now and it's amazing no surging and I actually have somewhere to send it if its fries
 
Ive had a quadzilla on my truck when it was VP still, I thought it was the biggest Pile of Sh*t Ive spent money on. It was an Adrenaline with pulse V2. All it would do is pop and sputter, blew the ECM fuse a bunch. I used to have an Edge comp drag and i would recommend the edge and a smarty over any quadzilla.
 
That too, surging with the quadzilla was terrible. No surging with the edge. Id keep your smarty, I tried a smarty on my old truck for a day and it was the best day i ever had with that truck
 
Stick with the smarty. The smarty is way more reliable power. With the smarty you are reflashing your computer. The quad lies to your map sensor and you have to tap your pump wire. That is why people have so many problems with the quad. I have a smarty and a quad adrenaline on my truck and I only use the smarty most of the time and just use the boost fooler on the quad. You would be surprised how much power you can get with smarty, a boost fooler, and 150hp injectors. Save yourself a head ache and dont tap your pump wire. It only causes problems for your electronics on vp down the road. Tapping the wire makes the pump run at double what it was meant to run at and it can cause problems with corroding that pump wire as well. Wish I never tapped my wire but at the time I was power hungry and all I had was quad on truck so I did it.
 
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I personally wouldn't. Seen quads do crazy stuff to throttle response and overall driveability. As said before, comp box is the way to go. Smooth fuel curve and makes good power for driving and towing.


As for tapping the pump........tap it, to questions asked. Don't worry about it, mine was tapped for 9 years on 1 VP and never had problems till now.
 
Tapping the wire has little to do with pump reliability. Its the other factors tapping the wire affects that can cause reliability issues. ie. someone running a stock lift pump taps it and runs low fuel psi.

My quad was amazing on my old truck. I do know some trucks don't respond well though too. If you could possibly try it first? I know thats asking a lot out of the guy you would trade with..
 
zfaylor said:
Tapping the wire has little to do with pump reliability. Its the other factors tapping the wire affects that can cause reliability issues. ie. someone running a stock lift pump taps it and runs low fuel psi.

My quad was amazing on my old truck. I do know some trucks don't respond well though too. If you could possibly try it first? I know thats asking a lot out of the guy you would trade with..
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it has a lot to with pump reliability because it doesnt run right if that connection becomes corroded. if i bought a new pump today then i would never tap the wire. if i wanted 150 horse i would just buy the injectors. not to mention the fuel circuit resistor is known to overheat and go bad on the adrenaline as well. i dont care what anybody says the smarty is way more reliable than the quad. you cant really mess up reflashing your computer unless you unplug it before its finished loading. if you dont care about reliability then get the quad. like i said i have both. instead of talking to us call a shop like dynomite diesel performance or fleece performance or something like that. they will probably tell you the same thing
 
To answer one of your questions , yes you can still monitor with the control pod
Boost , egt, trans , and fuel press .. It was I while since I've installed one but I'm almost positive on the fuel press . Also I believe it's only one at a time and can switch on the fly between what you want to monitor .
 
Yes you can monitor all that. But you need the fuel pressure sending unit to monitor fuel pressure on the control pod.
 
chumminz01 said:
I've had a offer to trade my Smarty for a Quad ADR with the control pod. I got a couple questions..
1. Is it worth trade with Quad closing its doors?
2. I love the low end of the smarty will I lose it with a quad?
3. How adjustable are the tunes with only the pod, just 1-10 or what?
4. Is there anyway to get new tunes?
5. I've read some on the buttons messing up, does this plague the pod or pulse monitor?
6. Will my clutch hold towing, can't remember for sure but it's 400-450 hp rating.

Just wanted your input, as compared to a seller talking it up.
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1. if its a fully working unit and you don't mind the risk of if it fails you have no support.
2. depends on what tune you run. stock tune, yes. Comp tune, no.
3. 0-10 with the pod. you can download tunes to change the timing curves, fuel curves, and injector durations. You just aren't able to adjust the settings like you are when you have the pulse monitor.
4. yes, here: quadzilla tune downloads - Dodge Cummins Diesel Forum
5. That was an issue with the pulse V1 monitor which many like myself fixed via modifying the monitor. (installed tactile switches to the board)
6. depends on mods and power level. for the smoothest towing I would recommend PL2

as for all the doomsayers:

some of the mentioned issues were from 5 years ago. which newer tunes fixed. Though it is better to have a pulse monitor with the adrenaline for custom tuning, its still a great box.

had mine since about a month after the box was released by quad 5 years ago and haven't had any issues with it. my $.02
 
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