Hi, I'm Wade from Thoroughbred Diesel.
Today we're going to be installing a PedalMonster
and we're going to be hooking up with our
already existing DataMonster from bikes.
PedalMonster, DataMonster, there's a lot of
monsters inside of this.
We started receiving our PedalMonsters from
Banks a couple of weeks ago.
We have already done a video for this as the
PedalMonster is standalone that works with
the app you can download for your phone.
We have a truck, 2016 eco diesel, Ram eco
diesel.
We have done an installation video on the
Derringer with the DataMonster for this truck.
And now we want to do the PedalMonster as
an expansion of that set up and try it out.
So that's what we're going to be doing today
and showing you how to do it.
This is an easy install and it's a pretty
seamless getting it to work with your Super
Gauge or your DataMonster like we have.
But the first thing that you've got to do
with this is you've got to update your iDash,
Super Gauge, DataMonster, all the same thing
with different functions, but you have to
download those.
So since we have a DataMonster it comes with
the micro SD card and the jump for that.
That's what you're going to need.
If you just have an iDash or a Super Gauge
you'll have to go and get yourself a micro
SD card and hopefully a jump or something
so you're able to hook it into your computer
to be able to update this.
Now we're going to roll over to the computer
screen and we're going to show you how to
do the update.
We're back in the truck with our DataMonster.
And now it is time to install our update that
we have done here.
So you just want to power it up.
It powers up for your truck.
I've turned it around here so you can see
it a little bit better.
And once it fires up what we're going to do
is we are just going to insert our SD card
and it'll come up and say, "SD ready."
Then you hit the right button, go down to
install updates.
I can't remember what exactly what it is.
Firmware update.
Hit the right button again.
And then we won't do the iDash updates.
We hit the right button again.
Choose the file, we hit it, it verifies it.
Do you want to continue?
Yes.
It'll go through this.
And we're going to reboot a couple of times.
I'll leave this real time for you all so you
see how long it takes to do this.
You should hum [inaudible 00:03:00].
I'm not a very good hummer.
They should not be used in any other context.
Side note there.
Oh, shoot.
That'll be the one that goes viral right there,
Adam.
All right.
All right, so update's done.
We're good to go.
We can go ahead and remove the chip at this
time.
SD card removed.
Make sure you keep your SD card, put it in
a safe place.
And there you go.
So now we have done our firmware update.
We are ready to physically install our PedalMonster.
When you purchased the Banks' PedalMonster
that is the upgrade for if you have an iDash,
Super Gauge, or DataMonster.
And I've already said that 1,000 times this
video, so I'm just going to call it the iDash
all the time and it'll serve the purpose for
anything.
Again, give you what this truck is, this truck
has a DataMonster with the Derringer, and
then we're doing this PedalMonster upgrade
for this.
So now that we've gone through that for the
last time, how this interface is going to
work with the Derringer is you're going to
have your PedalMonster at your APPS sensor.
And now our wire that comes from our Derringer
hookup outside of the hood, this normally
goes to the DataMonster or the iDash, And
then the iDash has a wire that feeds down
to the OBD tube.
You can look at the installation of our Derringer
video, and this will link you to that.
But this is going to change with the DataMonster
interface.
What we're going to be doing now is the drop
coming from the Derringer, or coming from
the engine side of the truck, instead of going
to the DataMonster it's going to come to the
PedalMonster.
Then the PedalMonster is going to come with
a cord and it can hook in either side of this.
It doesn't matter.
I'm just going to show you doing it.
It can hook into either side.
And then this wire is going to be our interface
up to the DataMonster, iDash, whatever it
is.
We've got to get our DataMonster down, get
the wire coming from the Derringer unhooked
from it, and hooked into here.
All right.
Working with our DataMonster here, what we're
going to do is we're going to go ahead and
unhook it from our windshield.
And what we're doing is we're just getting
access to the back of it so we can unhook
the cable.
I had a little zip tie here.
I'm just going to cut that zip tie.
All right.
Now the DataMonster pushes in and out of the
cup fairly easily so we can just access the
backside of it here for our cables.
And I'll show you.
So you have a four pin and you have a...
Whatever that is.
I'm sorry, six pins.
So you've got a four wire connection and a
six wire connection.
The six wire connection is what we're wanting
to unhook.
This comes from our Derringer, so we're going
to unhook it just like so.
And then we'll go ahead and pull that cord
out of our cup here.
And then let me just pull my trim off on this
truck.
This is a 16 eco diesel Dodge.
You know what I'm going to do, is just route
my wire back down and through.
So we'll go ahead and pull this out and get
this wire closer to our accelerator pedal.
So this is our wire from the Derringer that
we just hooked from our DataMonster here.
Remember it can go in either side of the DataMonster,
so you're good to go there.
Pick a side and you're good.
Now we've got both our wires hooked into the
DataMonster.
Now this wire is going back to the DataMonster,
so I'll feed that back up through again for
us.
And then we'll hook it right back to the DataMonster.
We have our interface wire from the PedalMonster
here.
We're going to go ahead and feed it through
the cup and hook it into the back of the DataMonster
here.
Hope you can see that, this just goes back
into the six pin port.
Dynamic shooting here by Adam and I.
And there you go.
So that's got that taken care of.
So what we'll do is we'll just get our wire
length fixed back up here, and then yuck everything
back in on this side of the truck.
All right, time to hook our PedalMonster into
our accelerator position sensor, which is
always the electrical portion right above
your gas pedal, for lack of a better terminology.
So we're going to go ahead and unhook here.
Adam's going to pass me the camera for some
dynamic shooting here and I am going to focus
on these dodges.
There's no safety catch on the connector so
I'll pull it down here so you can see it.
So you're using that catch right there is
what you're going for.
This is the stock harness side.
We will go with the male from our Banks kit,
push that in until it clicks.
Now the Banks end of the module...
Adam, I'll ask you if you can just put a hand
on it right there on the camera.
I think we're in a pretty good position there.
Now I'm just going to turn this around and
hook it right back into the sensor.
Now, the Banks wiring harness that you're
going to get is going to have an actual safety
tab on there, so you'll have to make sure
that that is pushed up before you insert it
back into your stock sensor.
Push until it clips, and then push your red
tab in.
And then there is your PedalMonster loose.
You want to make sure that you leave everything
down here because you're going to have to
push your pairing button on this.
It's time to set our PedalMonster up here.
So what we're going to do is we're going to
go ahead and wake the DataMonster up here.
So on you guys that have got keyless trucks
you just need to be on run and then hits your
right button to wake it up.
Now we're going to hit our right button.
What we're going to do first is we've got
to calibrate our PedalMonster.
We're going to go down here to the Banks'
modules and hit right, and PedalMonsters our
top selection.
We're going to hit right again.
We want to go down here to the calibrate.
It says it's complete, but we're going to
run through it again.
Calibration is required.
We hit yes.
Depress gas pedal completely, release gas
pedal completely, depress gas pedal completely,
release gas pedal completely, success.
Calibration is complete.
So we are in good shape here.
So our pedal, we can start changing our levels
here.
We don't want to be in stock anymore.
We've got the good stuff going.
So let's go to...
So you've got city, sport, track on here,
which are...
You can stay in your stock level or these
three sub levels here.
We'll go to sport and hit right.
If you wanted to change it in level here,
you could, but we're not going to do that.
We're going to go back to the home screen.
Now let's set up our gauges so that we have
control of the PedalMonster.
We're going to hit the right button again,
going to go to gauge selection.
Or I'm sorry, gauge layout, hit the right
button, scroll all the way down here to the
PedalMonster.
There's PedalMonster combo, and then there's
Derringer PedalMonster, that gives you both
of them on the same screen.
We're just going to pull the PedalMonster
up here so you can see it.
You can see we've got the sport that we had
chosen.
We can run in the 10 sub levels that you've
got inside of sport.
So we'll start the truck.
You can see when you're throttling here it'll
show you where you would have been stock and
where the Banks takes you to.
So that's pretty cool.
Let's go back here and let's do a different
gauge layout.
Let's do a gauge layout that gets us to having
Derringer on there as well.
We're going to go to the Derringer PedalMonster.
That gives us our power levels on the left
here for the Derringer.
And then we can hit the left button and that
gets us to the Derringer power levels so you
can see that those are changing when they're
selected.
The back button there selects between the
two, and you can go between the two.
So pretty sleek set up.
On our lead in here I think I made a little
bit of an error there.
I'd say to leave your PedalMonster loose because
you want to press the pairing button.
I said that out of habit because we just did
these standalone video.
No pairing is needed here once you've got
this hooked up.
This is going to be a really, really nice
addition to the Derringer.
You're going to get your power increase from
your Derringer and your overall better drivability
and all of the things that come along with
a tuned vehicle.
Now you get the extra throttle sensitivity,
hopefully to increase our fuel economy.
Overall drivability, the truck is going to
go up.
We have some ride along videos that we did
with our standalone showing with this.
I think we can pull out of here.
Actually, you know what?
Let's do it, Adam.
Let's zip tie the PedalMonster up and get
everything cleaned up.
Let's go out here and take it for a drive.
So we're doing our ride along here with our
Derringer and our PedalMonster combo.
We want to show you another little functionality
of the PedalMonster that you've got here when
coupled with this iDash.
Now, if you want to change through the level...
So you have your four main levels.
You've got your stock pedal, you got your
city pedal, you've got sport, and then you've
got track.
And then there's 10 sub-levels in those four
levels.
So different levels.
To get back to the different levels, if you
want to change that, if you go down that gets
you to the lower levels, and then you can
function inside of each one of those.
You can take it all the way back to stock.
You're getting sublevels to stock, and then
you're getting city, and you get 10 sub levels
of support, you're getting 10 sub levels.
I got a guy behind me and I'm just yapping.
And then you've got track and 10 sub levels.
If we wanted to go to a track from here we
just go to the 10th level in city, and it'll
tell you zero pedals required here.
So you can go to the 10th level in city.
That takes us to sport.
The 10th level in sport will take us to track.
And of course we want to try it on it's highest
level.
I mean, what is this?
We want to try it out.
On the red bar there, that's showing you where
the Derringer is telling the throttle to be,
the white is where the computer would normally
be asking for it to be.
It is very, very smooth the way it makes power.
You think about it and it's there.
I mean, it's pretty well sensitive.
Let's crank it up here, on up to the main
one, zero pedal required dummy.
So there's wide open on track and that is
very sensitive, but that's pretty cool.
It really is.
Trying to see where it gets me to stop and
start here because we'll be slowing down.
And that's not too jumpy.
I mean, it don't snatch you back in the seat
or anything like that, or squeal tires.
And even if it does, you turn it down, you
work inside of what works for you or works
inside of your truck.
But overall, easy install.
If you've got a Derringer you're going to
get better throttle sensitivity because of
the tuning from the Derringer.
But this just amplifies that within an additional
module.
Super easy to install.
Really, really liked it.
This entire project that we've done with Banks
with putting this Derringer on this eco diesel
has really been a success for us.
We've been very impressed with it.
If you have a question about any of Banks'
products, you have a question about Ram eco
diesels, you have a question about whether
we were going to have college football this
year, or any questions about my phenomenal
driving skills here in our industrial area
behind our shop is sketcherific.
Give us a call.
We're going to link you in this video to the
unboxing of the PedalMonster.
And that will get you a general idea of what
comes with the PedalMonster, because our unboxing
is actually the standalone version, which
will be the same thing as what we have with
this, except for you get the cable with the
PedalMonster that couples with the Derringer.
You get the cable that runs from the Derringer
to the PedalMonster, and then PedalMonster
out to the display.
All right.
I'm Wade, Thoroughbred Diesel.
You got any questions, give us a call.
Thanks for watching.
