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I think this is a good point. In my experience, many (possibly most) aftermarket tunes unnecessarily or inadvertently get rid of safety protections. And if you look at the Roush SC or FP tunes, they only change what's necessary to adapt to the new hardware and operating context.

An air leak didn't blow up this engine.

I like the Odin/magnuson and it’s better than Roush 2650 in a couple of ways, but the intercooler is smaller than edelbrock and Whipple which is a shortcoming. If I was hell bent on the 2650, and I get why, I’d probably go edelbrock. However, edelbrock spins the snot out of the stage 2 and I...

Strongly depends on who is doing the tuning. I don’t trust anyone but ford anymore, and Roush by extension.

The Roush tune will cut max engine load (close the throttle) at high iat, and high iat isn’t that hard to reach with the pitiful intercooler. Some of that can be helped with a tune. Is e85 an option?

Can 5.2 heads be swapped onto a gen2? They’re reasonably priced and have larger valves and cnc ports, same phaser design, no gdi. May be something to check into.

There’s a funny thing about ethanol and its effects on knock. Ethanol by itself doesn’t have a huge improvement in octane, at least how we measure it. The issue is that at least one, maybe both RON and MON, atomize the fuel and then reheat the mixture to a standard, controlled temperature...

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1) You can confirm, but I believe the gen3 gasket bore is larger than the stock 5.2 predator bore. 3) Gen 3 switched from CTA to oil pressure actuated phasers so the solenoids and probably connectors are different. You could probably repin correct connectors and do some fancy tuning but likely...

This allows you to push the brake down at a dead stop, and floor the accelerator. It will limit the torque in this situation, but as soon as you release the brake, it automatically ramps the torque in. You can set the torque limit against the brake, the speed at which is starts ramping in, and...

That's a tall order. To make 1000 rwhp on a Whipple 3.0 would require something like a 2.5" or 2.6" pulley. A couple of issues stand out to me. 1. It's doubtful a 6-rib belt will work well with that small of a pulley. I guess you could try but it seems that under a 3" it's generally...

You can buy the entire gt500 fuel line with filter from ford for $200 iirc, which seems very reasonable to me. However, you have to drop the entire exhaust, driveshaft, and tank to swap it in.

GT350 (and 500) have 2 pumps in the bucket on the driver's side. The passenger's side is just a fuel level sensor and the inlet for the venturi line, but there is no pump on the passenger's side. The 500 is a little more elaborate because they move the entire venturi to the passenger's side...

GT350 and 500 both rely on the venturi to pull fuel over from the PS saddle.

The venturi siphon requires backpressure to generate a flow. In other words, if you disconnect the fuel line from the rail and allow it to dump in a bucket, there would be insufficient backpressure generated, so there wouldn't be enough flow through the .016" hole in the venturi to draw fuel...

The problem with fuel drain tunes is they only drain half the tank.

@Cactus Jim not all of that happened the way lore says it did. They didn't actually go to court but rather argued the cases in front of the BBB. For starters, understand that Group I, II, and III are all fossil-based oils of progressive processing and quality. Group III (or II) are NOT what...

Ok we’ve been wrestling for some time to try to make traction control work better….more like motec does. But that logic lives in the ABS module.

Any chance you can do something similar with the abs module?

I had assumed (but not verified) that the base multipliers were from base/alt0 shifts. I'm not sure if the alt1/2 multipliers stack on top of the base multipliers, but I would tend to think so.