Hey guys, today we're gonna be taking a closer look at the VMP Rev-X Tuner by SCT for 2018
GT Mustangs.
You're gonna wanna be checking this out if you're looking for a tuner for 2018 GT Mustang
that's either stock or has some basic bolt-ons.
This tuner comes with one custom tune from VMP.
Now you're gonna wanna check out a custom tune if you don't wanna go with something
that has a pre-configured tune from SCT on it.
A custom tune tends to give a little bit more power and is a little bit more specific for
each vehicle.
This tuner costs about $600 but do keep in mind that you are getting a new device here
and you're also getting a VMP custom tune.
VMP has a great reputation for being able to deliver both great power gains and awesome
driveability with their tunes.
The install for this will be a one out of three wrenches in the difficulty meter but
let's get to the good part and show you guys the dyno numbers.
So our stock dyno run gave us numbers of 433 horsepower and 390 foot-pounds of torque.
After we installed the C&L Racer Cold Air Intake and paired it with the VMP tune, we
made numbers of 455 horsepower and 398 foot-pounds of torque.
That makes for a peak gain of 22 horsepower and 8 foot-pounds of torque.
What's even better than those peak gains though are the curve gains, we saw great curve gains
with this cold air intake and the tune.
We're looking at curve gains of 21 horsepower and 20-foot pounds at 6000 rpm.
What's even more exciting though is that we gained another 20 foot-pounds of torque right
at 3300 rpm.
So you have both horsepower and torque gains in the curve on a high-end side of the RPMs
and torque gains on the low side of RPMs too, so that's gonna mean a great driving experience.
Now that we've talked about the dyno numbers, I'll show you exactly how to get the tune
uploaded to your car.
Okay guys, to start your install you're going to take your OBD II plug, this end is gonna
go into the top of your device just like that, I'm gonna plug this end in your OBD II port,
it is located right under here.
Once you plug into your OBD II port the tuner is gonna turn on and you'll see this screen
right here which is basically like your home screen.
All right, so to upload your tune you're gonna go to program vehicle, we are going to confirm
the information here just to make sure that we are tuning the correct vehicle.
We'll hit confirm.
All right, so at this point we're just gonna hit continue, we're going to hit the ignition
on but not start the car.
All right and now starts the process of programming the vehicle.
So from here all you have to do is select your tune.
So we're gonna go down to our custom tune which will be on the device down here, we'll
select that.
All right, so we're just going to confirm.
Basically what happens is when you have a device that has an SCT pre-configured tune
on it like this device does and you add a custom tune to it, it disables your pre-configured
SCT tunes.
But if you guys are going for a custom tune like this one anyway, disabling those SCT
pre-configured Tunes really isn't a big deal for you.
So we're gonna hit continue, and hit continue again to load our custom tune file.
And this is really all it's gonna take in order to get the tune on to your car.
This is why I say that a tune is one of the best bang for your buck modifications.
You don't have to install anything, there's no tools, no work involved, all you're doing
is uploading a tune file to your car.
Once it's done and you start your car, you have instant horsepower and torque gains and
better driveability.
At this point, we're being prompted to hit the ignition off so that's what we're gonna
do.
All right and we gonna put the engine back on.
So the tuner has built-in Wi-Fi which means that you will need to log in to your personal
Wi-Fi.
Once you log into your Wi-Fi, the tuner will automatically remember and automatically log
in every time the tuner turns on.
That means that you guys will have built-in firmware updates, so no more plugging into
your PC to get your firmware updates.
That's one of the really nice features about this tuner.
So this is PC compatible just like all of your other SCT devices and this does come
with one custom tune from the VMP.
That means that you guys will submit some information about your car, like what kind
of mods you have on it.
This car has a C&L cold air intake on it, so we made sure to tell VMP that.
A VMP calibrator will go in, write a custom tune for you, and then email it to you.
From there you'll be able to upload it to your device here and then get it on your car.
It does come with one data log review if you guys need it.
Just like most of your other SCT devices, this does come with all of your familiar features.
So you guys can view gauges or data logs, you just select gauges and data logs.
Make sure you have the ignition turned on.
We're just going to select our vehicle here.
We have a Ford gas, it's 2008 or newer, continue.
So you guys can change these.
We can stop, we can start recording our data, we can select exactly what we want a data
log.
We can select a gauge layout, I'll just show you guys some of the layouts.
Right now I have the first one selected.
But you can literally go in and select any layout that you want.
This display right here will show you the most, showing you almost all of the gauges
that you can see through the SCT device here.
We can also read or clear our trouble codes just like any other SCT device with this here.
So you have some new features here with this Rev-X Tuner but you also have all of your
old familiar features as well.
All right, so if you wanna read or clear your trouble codes, you're gonna go to vehicle
functions.
You're gonna read your codes here, clear them here, or if you guys should need a special
function.
All right so this is gonna be our cam reset, our crank relearn.
We can access our TPMS through here or change our tire size and axle ratio through this
as well.
All right, so here's where we can access our Wi-Fi, change anything from here.
We can check for updates through this as well.
We can change our brightness, our orientation, you can perform factory reset on the tuner
through here.
Right now the theme is dark red, you guys can pretty much customize this to make it
look like what you'd like.
But your most important features I would say is when your gauge is in data logging or if
you wanna tune the vehicle you go to program vehicle.
That's gonna wrap up this review and install.
Keep in mind, you guys can always check this tuner out more online right here, at americanmuscle.com.