after i install a cai and exhaust system do i just take my truck somewhere to get tuned?

 

No. You want to look at different tuners and decide which one you like. Order it and install yourself.

I would recommend looking into a Gryphon Tuner. I love mine. www.powerhungryperformance.com

Also do a search on tuners and do some reading. That will help you out tremendously

 

i guess im just apprehensive about doing that to my truck and messing it up. Is it necessary to tune it right after i install the cai and exhaust or can i wait six months or so untill i have the money?

 

I bought the X3 on a brand new truck and immedicatlely feel a difference. this is without my custom tunes which are being done. No other mods to make. Just the tuner, and I am happy.
Troyer X3.

 

I would not run a CAI on a 5.43v without a custom tune. There is too much risk of running lean and the risk is much higher on the 2004 and 2005s. Not only that, you don't use the potential of teh CAI without a custom tune. Get the exhaust when you want to, but I would get the tuner and teh CAI at the same time.

 

ok so lets say its one or the other...either exhaust and cai or exhaust and tue..which one?

 

The tuner will do more for you performance wise and "fun" factor than any other mod. It also improves shifting. If I could have only one mod, it would be the one. The exhaust will do little for you by istself other than sound good, but that alone is very important to me. The CAI will do littlle for you unless you have an exhaust to get rid of the increased air flow and a tune to mix proper fuel with the inceased air flow.

If I could do only one, I would do the tuner with custom tunes, then do the homemade intake mod that costs about $12 that is explained in the How To section(which I have done). Then I would do exhaust when I could. I did my exhaust long before I did a tuner and Iwish I had done the tuner earlier. I was just apprehensive as they were in their infancy for the 5.4 3V.

 

thanks for the help fellas. ill be doing the exhust and tune and just do the gotts intake

 

better make sure it's a custom tune VS a canned tune