Gearhead Tune Review

I've had a Gearhead tune in my truck for 6 months and 5k miles now and love it! I had a 5 star tune in my Gen 1 and have no experience with MPT, but I am super happy with everything regarding the Gearhead tune. I've been to Snoball and TRR and it performed as well off road as it does on road. The review done by the OP is spot on. I love the added bonus that when ever I travel out of state, I never have to worry about Octane issues. The powerband is great and it pulls strong in all gears. Handles higher speeds great too. While at TRR I also had the pleasure to meet both of the owners and not only are they cool guys, but they most definitely know their shit. 100% two thumbs up here.

That is what they believe. It’s also reasonable to assume their tune won’t be as hard on components with stock turbos.

That being said.... I’ve been running an MPT 93 tune for 2 trouble free years. My turbos are doing just fine. Will they wear out more quickly? Maybe.... but everything wears out eventually. It’s hardly unreliable.

I’ll be honest..:. I like Lars. A lot. And I think they are very smart guys over at Gearhead... I ran his tune. It’s slower. To the tune of 0.7 seconds slower to 60 than MPT and it doesn’t pull up top as well. It’s only a very modest upgrade over stock in terms of performance but in my opinion their trans tuning is the best in the biz. This was my experience on my truck. Your mileage may vary of course. Well... I haven’t tried JDM yet, but I’m working on that.

I’m also not a fan of the bigger Turbos. I’ve not seen a set that doesn’t take longer to spool and that doesn’t make less power off idle.

mattr66 said:

Gearhead is the only tuner that pays attention to the maximum turbo speed that should be run. Anything over 220000 rpms is shortening the life of the turbos. That's why the Gearhead tunes feel like the power is dropping off at the higher rpms. If you want more, get more turbo.

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Gearhead also accounts for octane and drops boost automatically if you can't run enough timing so you don't melt the factory cats.... 220000 rpms is the turbo design limit.

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And if anybody was wondering, I'm the calibrator and developer for Gearhead.

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Matt are your tunes available on the N-gauge?

lilgsx96 said:

Matt are your tunes available on the N-gauge?

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Yes

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Limits are made to be broken.

Everything has a theoretical limit.

mattr66 said:

Gearhead also accounts for octane and drops boost automatically if you can't run enough timing so you don't melt the factory cats.... 220000 rpms is the turbo design limit.

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My gear head tuned dyno results
CAI, catted downpipes

rsbug said:

View attachment 126462 View attachment 126463 My gear head tuned dyno results

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That looks like you didn't let the octane learn before dynoing... What did it make stock on the same dyno?

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mattr66 said:

That looks like you didn't let the octane learn before dynoing...

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Been running 91 octane since the tune, about 4000 miles worth.