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JasinEdward
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Sorry for the delay... I have a lot of pics of the museum, but that's about it due to cameras not being allowed in most areas I was in.
Here is a bit of a rundown on my trip....
I got off the plane and was picked up by Roush's Customer Care Director Bernadette. She gave me an idea of what we would be doing throughout the day and explained who I would be meeting. First up was the engineers.
They wanted me to test my vehicle and verify the fix. At this time there was an experimental PCM in the car that hooked up directly to the engineer's notebook. We did a run on the expressway and around the neighborhood for about 30 mins to an hour. At this time the car was on the base 670 tune. I was able to replicate the issue a couple of times. Once I did that, he changed the tune up a bit and I attempted to recreate the issue again. For the most part it was good, but it did happen another time. He was able to adjust the tune again to completely eliminate the issue.
As to what the issue is? Accorording to the engineers, a very strange case of input shaft related NVH. It was causing false knock. They showed me the graphs in real time as they were testing to prove that it wasn't any type of detonation. They were actually able to adjust the tune to make the issue worse on demand. The problem was that they had to eliminate the issue in the shift patterns with the 4-2 upshift in every possible mph scenario. Then do it again in Sport+ and Track modes. It was a lot of tedious work.
After that, they took me to lunch at local place that was really good. Then I got to meet up the majority of their staff including Kyle. Bernadette then introduced me to Jack Roush Jr. who took me on a tour of Roush Aviation, their test cells (engine dyno labs), and emissions testing facility. We then went over to the museum that houses a lot of the Roush family vehicles. It was really neat hearing the stories behind a lot of the beautiful cars they had there.
Next I went back to hear the exhaust they installed on my car while we were gone (it's badass) and then I was introduced to Mike Rey. He is in charge of the Roush Road Crew. He was previously working for Ford as a product information specialist on the 2015 Mustang and the 2016 GT350. He wanted to taake me over to Ford headquarters and show me around, but we didn't have that much time. Instead, we went to this little building where Ford Performance is run out of. Pulling up to the building I saw a Focus RS in the parking lot. Then I saw the GT350 for the first time in Orange. Little did I know what I was in for....lol.
Once inside it felt like I was in a magazine. I have never seen so many GT350's in one place.They were on the lifts in the garage and all over the parking lot. The parking lot is where they keep all the old camo cars and production tesing vehicles. While it was amazing to see it was sad too. All of these vehicles are going to be destroyed as they are pre-production without VIN's. I tried to get them to send me a set of carbon fiber wheels, but didn't have much luck ;). Then they had one more thing to show me. It was a partially disassembled 2016 Ford GT. Even half together it was awesome.
After that they dropped me off at the airport and I made my way home! It was a very awesome trip. I can't thank everyone at Roush enough for everything they have done! :cheers:
Here is a bit of a rundown on my trip....
I got off the plane and was picked up by Roush's Customer Care Director Bernadette. She gave me an idea of what we would be doing throughout the day and explained who I would be meeting. First up was the engineers.
They wanted me to test my vehicle and verify the fix. At this time there was an experimental PCM in the car that hooked up directly to the engineer's notebook. We did a run on the expressway and around the neighborhood for about 30 mins to an hour. At this time the car was on the base 670 tune. I was able to replicate the issue a couple of times. Once I did that, he changed the tune up a bit and I attempted to recreate the issue again. For the most part it was good, but it did happen another time. He was able to adjust the tune again to completely eliminate the issue.
As to what the issue is? Accorording to the engineers, a very strange case of input shaft related NVH. It was causing false knock. They showed me the graphs in real time as they were testing to prove that it wasn't any type of detonation. They were actually able to adjust the tune to make the issue worse on demand. The problem was that they had to eliminate the issue in the shift patterns with the 4-2 upshift in every possible mph scenario. Then do it again in Sport+ and Track modes. It was a lot of tedious work.
After that, they took me to lunch at local place that was really good. Then I got to meet up the majority of their staff including Kyle. Bernadette then introduced me to Jack Roush Jr. who took me on a tour of Roush Aviation, their test cells (engine dyno labs), and emissions testing facility. We then went over to the museum that houses a lot of the Roush family vehicles. It was really neat hearing the stories behind a lot of the beautiful cars they had there.
Next I went back to hear the exhaust they installed on my car while we were gone (it's badass) and then I was introduced to Mike Rey. He is in charge of the Roush Road Crew. He was previously working for Ford as a product information specialist on the 2015 Mustang and the 2016 GT350. He wanted to taake me over to Ford headquarters and show me around, but we didn't have that much time. Instead, we went to this little building where Ford Performance is run out of. Pulling up to the building I saw a Focus RS in the parking lot. Then I saw the GT350 for the first time in Orange. Little did I know what I was in for....lol.
Once inside it felt like I was in a magazine. I have never seen so many GT350's in one place.They were on the lifts in the garage and all over the parking lot. The parking lot is where they keep all the old camo cars and production tesing vehicles. While it was amazing to see it was sad too. All of these vehicles are going to be destroyed as they are pre-production without VIN's. I tried to get them to send me a set of carbon fiber wheels, but didn't have much luck ;). Then they had one more thing to show me. It was a partially disassembled 2016 Ford GT. Even half together it was awesome.
After that they dropped me off at the airport and I made my way home! It was a very awesome trip. I can't thank everyone at Roush enough for everything they have done! :cheers:
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