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Never had one, but have read about it as well as the 5.4's. Terrible design, both the lack of thread length and the silly two-piece spark plugs. It surprised me just how long the problem persisted. Another kind of dumb idea. In the 2nd gen LT1 engine (The early 90's pre-LS) they had an...

Work your way rearward with exhaust. Headers, then hipo cats, then x or h pipes and then finally mufflers. Freeing up restriction closer to the engine helps it "breathe" better (Essentially creating a larger exhaust "plenum" if you will). By the time the exhaust has cooled down and...

Yeah I forgot about the BMW Vanos failures. I think the M3 V8's (S- something, can't remember the engine code) liked to shear off the bolts for the cam phasers I think. I actually can't think of any Mercedes Benz problems, but they gave up on the manual trans a long time ago, so I gave up on...

True that. Got a 2008 hemi that has a nasty sounding engine. Sounds exactly like a rod knock, but I know it's the darn lifters eating the lobes off the cam. Have to pull the heads to do the lifters. Engine burns oil as well, so a re-ring kit and a new cam will go in eventually. The engine...

Yeah as you can see, it's literally changing a few numbers, it'll take you longer to write the email than for them to write the tune...

Here is a 2018 Automatic I found. There are probably a dozen throttle maps (Including "Mud" and "Reverse") but they are not necessarily used. Likewise the tables don't go higher than 6500, even though the engine can. Might be a limitation of HP Tuners or might just be the stock tables apply...

Here you go. Note the headings change, e.g. stock is 10...20...30 and performance is not that way. I also fit in the first 3 tables of driver demand per gear. Not quite as easy as the others, and I wouldn't mess with it, but it's there for you anyway. This is from a stock 2015 GT I found...

I read that article today and I think it's great. I also read about the Mach-e powertrain package that borg-warner manufacturers. Whether we like it or not, these type of integrated power units (Motors + transmissions + controllers) are really going to be the "crate engine" of the future. I'm...

Just a heads up that your tuner can do the exact same thing as this in your tune. There are several maps of throttle request vs commanded tables, which is really the better way to do it. These just ramp up the throttle request, quite literally taking resolution out of the pedal. If you have a...

The 4.3L is also used by Mercury Marine and Volvo as well I believe for their I/O drives. While not the most technologically advanced engines out there, they are quite reliable. I had one in a blazer, I think we got about 160k miles out of it. At some point though we started to get some...

You will need to have Lund send you a new tune for the gt350 TB, just a heads up. The numbers for it are completely different. On my PP2, I get a single pop from the TB closing when I turn the car off, not sure if Lund's tunes do that, but if they do, know that others with the official PP2...

Yeah the VQ engine has probably been in Ward's 10 Best engines longer than most engines out there. It was a great design for sure. I had one in a 350z a long time ago. Probably the most exotic-sounding engine I've ever owned. Nissan actually placed aural quality into the design for the...

I've got an Arcan old school steel low profile jack I've owned since the late 90's. Seriously. First time I did any maintenance at all was last year when I added a little bit of jack oil. Great jack. 3 ton. Yes jacks weigh a lot, but I don't understand the reasoning behind wanting a...

Not sure the recording capabilities of whatever tuning device you have, but if you can record certain PIDs, you might want to look at those involving the throttle body. Commanded vs actual pedal, MAF, throttle angle and so forth. While it won't fix the problem, the tuner will be able to tell...

I looked into it and as far as I can see, GM had VVT in the L76 (Vortec Max 6000) which could be had as early as 2007 in their trucks. I'm not sure if it was the 1500's, 1500HD or 2500's though. According to Summit Racing, it had a phaser that advanced or retarded the entire cam up to 62...

The Shelby museum had a few nice examples of the GLHS Omni's. I think they were actually pretty good cars "for the time". Seemed to be a rip-off of the VW Rabbit though, which was a better car for sure.

The only thing I notice is a "pop" when I turn off the car. I read it happens on a lot of people that get the Ford PP2, and it's the sound of the blade closing. Otherwise, with Ford's values, it drives the same as before the change.

I dug into it a bit more, and I think it was a bit of marketing spin on Dodge's part because they did advertise it as being first. Here's what I found out: Link Note they call out Mahle, but I had read from Dick Winkles, the Viper Powertrain Engineer, that it was MechaDyne. I might be...

I stand corrected, thank you QCGoose. Perhaps it was the first non V8, not sure. I seem to remember Dodge making a pretty big deal about it. In Dodge's case though, they really just used Mechadyne to make the magic happen.