Terminator X for the hemi is here!!

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Looks promising, only downfall I see is you have to fab up a cable throttle body setup. I know how well it works for the LS crowd. I may purchase after the 1st of the year. Price wise it is a toss up between it and the efi source goldbox. Who will be first?

Holley Performance Products
 
After some reading, it's a viable option for us as long as it's as "plug and play" as implied.

There are hemi to LS throttle body adapters out there, or the Holley sheetmetal intakes have both bolt patterns. The LS TB is $160 from Holley. Wish this was out 5 months ago...now I more than likely will make changes to our gen III hemi prototype already :p
Even if it's the same price as the Chrysler controller (as a vendor) the savings from the LS throttle body will negate that. (On a from scratch build)

Any takeout/donor guys might still be better off with the Chrysler kit....while it's avail anyways.

At least we know Holley isn't going anywhere.

I beat up Scott and Shawn at Holley for hemi stuff every time we talk. I'm going to pretend they got tired of me, and I had something to do with it :rofl:
 
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This is to me a far better option for us over the mopar kit
You can tune it yourself once you done any mods vs paying for a tune
The LS throttle body is a easy fix
Cheap system and will have tech support
I don’t trust mopar/ dodge for nothing
They have proved over the years
That the core enthusiast will not be helped
Been waiting on this system
Very excited to see this type of help from
The aftermarket. Hats off to holley!!
 
I can’t believe that you guys aren’t super excited about the terminator being released for the hemi
I know I am !!!!
 
If I didn't already have my EFI Source gold box I would seriously look at it
Price point they are almost the same. I was looking at the gold box also. I think the gold box has more features that most will never use.
 
o1heavy, that's a nice 1 ton truck.

I'd be excited, and I'm glad another something is coming out for the Mopar crowd, but I don't have a Gen 3 Hemi. I'm not really into those. Actually, I've had and still have a couple new modern vehicles with the 5.7, a 2013 Ram 1500 that I bought new and my current 2018 Jeep TrailHawk with the 5.7

Between those two vehicles, with the constant lifter tick, broken exhaust manifold bolts on the 2018 Jeep with 30,000 miles, and reading about these issues on various forums for years since the birth of the damn thing, I'm not impressed with the quality or design of that engine. The LS did it better. Hopefully Mopar can one day stick with the same owner for more than a decade and design something a little better.

I will say, I am impressed with the power the Jeep has, it really scoots.
 
o1heavy, that's a nice 1 ton truck.

I'd be excited, and I'm glad another something is coming out for the Mopar crowd, but I don't have a Gen 3 Hemi. I'm not really into those. Actually, I've had and still have a couple new modern vehicles with the 5.7, a 2013 Ram 1500 that I bought new and my current 2018 Jeep TrailHawk with the 5.7

Between those two vehicles, with the constant lifter tick, broken exhaust manifold bolts on the 2018 Jeep with 30,000 miles, and reading about these issues on various forums for years since the birth of the damn thing, I'm not impressed with the quality or design of that engine. The LS did it better. Hopefully Mopar can one day stick with the same owner for more than a decade and design something a little better.

I will say, I am impressed with the power the Jeep has, it really scoots.
I agree and as a matter of fact the engine I bought for the swap has two broken exhaust studs and a two damaged lifters
That basically trashed the engine
 
Unless they have really deep pockets !

Pretty much - I am going from a factory PCM on my 6.1L to a complete stand-alone system and have been accumulating parts as I go. The Holley is a good system but honestly, I prefer to make things work not just buy plug and play stuff... I built a MS3X and am currently making the wiring harness - the MS3 is just as versatile and nothing on it is proprietary - I can troubleshoot it myself, expand it, modify it, etc.

I am glas that companies are coming out with gen 3 swap parts - makes things a lot easier than when I did my swap 10 years ago - but when there's so many "bolt on" things swaps become underwhelming IMO - look at LS swaps... I just walk past most these days because it's simply but a crate engine, plug it in, and go... no real "hot rodding" going on these days.
 
Pretty much - I am going from a factory PCM on my 6.1L to a complete stand-alone system and have been accumulating parts as I go. The Holley is a good system but honestly, I prefer to make things work not just buy plug and play stuff... I built a MS3X and am currently making the wiring harness - the MS3 is just as versatile and nothing on it is proprietary - I can troubleshoot it myself, expand it, modify it, etc.

I am glas that companies are coming out with gen 3 swap parts - makes things a lot easier than when I did my swap 10 years ago - but when there's so many "bolt on" things swaps become underwhelming IMO - look at LS swaps... I just walk past most these days because it's simply but a crate engine, plug it in, and go... no real "hot rodding" going on these days.

you are definitely smarter than I am -----------
 
These look like a great option for my 6.4 instead of the MP kit. One thing though, I see that both controllers specify "for non-VVT only" so to use these setups will I have to lock out my VVT? and if so I wonder how that will affect my engines overall performance?
 
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