Strange and frustrating issue here

[Dapepper9]

Sounds like you are the target consumer for a big-name-tuner. Glad you found the product that fits your desires.

I personally have spent the 2+ years learning the Ford logic and picking apart every mustang calibration I could get my hands on. I will not blindly buy what anyone is selling again, unless it's Ford or maybe Roush. Many are truly horrid, and the end-user is typically oblivious. The Roush tune is the only one I've seen that is an actual calibration, not a cobbled together set of band-aids. I would love to explain all the ways in which the Roush calibration is superior, but you'd really need to understand the Ford logic for any of it to really make sense. It is true that the Roush gives up power with its shift points and cat protection strategy, but those are really the easiest parts of a tune to change. Roush got the hard part right (the actual engine calibration) and didn't go after the easy gains that potentially sacrifice reliability and require octanes greater than 91 to get the benefit. And this is coming from a Whipple guy..... I'm not the only one who thinks this; all the tuners I network with also know it to be true. I'd go as far as to say that Ford's fingerprints are all over the Roush cal. I'd bet lunch that Roush paid the Ford calibration engineering team to do the bulk of the development.

You would like Ken Osborne

I know this is a mustang platform and a mustang page, but not all tuning coyotes take that same approach. In my opinion, many get caught up in the idea of chasing records and getting every bit of power out of a setup and take drivability issues as “that’s just how it is” or “that’s par for the course”. Some tuners have a much higher focus on reliability and drivability refinement with power take a 2nd seat

I don’t disagree about the Roush calibration very likely being Ford developed though.

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