that being said. programer vs box.
ill take a programer every time.
why? what does a box do? it lies to the computer, it fools it into doing something it wasnt programed to do. they are verry crude, and usualy verry simple. you do realise an mp8 is basicly a reostat? a $5radioshack part ? it simply changes sensor data. what its doing is telling the computer that something is wrong and it needs to open the fca more on the cp3 more to increse rail presure. real easy to plug in and diagnose.
the problem is when you get a glitch, or when ya get greedy.
a programer on the other hand, it tells the truck to do what ya want based on fuel ,timing, boost maps etc. if the person doing the programing has done it well, it'll work well. some programers have verry crude maps. some programers will just take a value and run it thru a multiplyer... those are realy bad...
marco- the programer for smarty's is in a verry unique position, and has some knowlage that none of the other programers have. i cant go to far into it, but he has much better maping than any one else.