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From: Itinerant
"I want more power and hopefully some fuel savings."
I believe the Y pipe helped the pre '05' 2v V10s the 3v V10 are pretty good from the factory but if I'm wrong someone will correct me.
With power comes fuel consumption and a BSEG. You have an '09' and if you read more of these threads these 3v v10s breath pretty good already. Try a 5 star X3 tunes that will wake your truck up, firm the shifting and get rid of the throttle lag and you wont suffer mileage drop and possible get a little bit better as long as you keep your foot out of it which can be tough to do.
http://5startuning.com/v10/index.html
On that page the 2 clips are from my truck and that is just with the 87 tow/ performance tune which is all I have run on the truck. I tried the economy tune and it did nothing for me, I have the 89 tow/ Performance tune which I have not used yet because the 87 does just fine and has plenty of spunk when needed. Other guys have used the higher octane tune and enjoy them and have gotten better MPG but you'll pay more at the pump.
I believe the Y pipe helped the pre '05' 2v V10s the 3v V10 are pretty good from the factory but if I'm wrong someone will correct me.
With power comes fuel consumption and a BSEG. You have an '09' and if you read more of these threads these 3v v10s breath pretty good already. Try a 5 star X3 tunes that will wake your truck up, firm the shifting and get rid of the throttle lag and you wont suffer mileage drop and possible get a little bit better as long as you keep your foot out of it which can be tough to do.
http://5startuning.com/v10/index.html
On that page the 2 clips are from my truck and that is just with the 87 tow/ performance tune which is all I have run on the truck. I tried the economy tune and it did nothing for me, I have the 89 tow/ Performance tune which I have not used yet because the 87 does just fine and has plenty of spunk when needed. Other guys have used the higher octane tune and enjoy them and have gotten better MPG but you'll pay more at the pump.
Cargo Master
Joined: Jun 2011
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From: Cincy area
Yup. 5 star will take great care of you. It's pretty amazing the performance difference. Towing, not sure with the tune I'm currently running. Its an 87 octane performance tune so I may need to get the 87 tow tune before the next Ohio truck meet.
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From: Victor, MT
Whats the tune do for it exactly? How does modifying shift points and thigns like that change your MPGs?
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From: laporte in
Basically the tune makes yor vehicle use every drop of gas that is dropped into the combustion chamber. The timing and all that good stuff is more fine tuned than the factory
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Then before I sold my excursion, I removed the tune and drove it stock for the last week before I sold it. Holy smokes did I feel the power difference then!
A very worthwhile mod, the transmission shift points alone are worth it.
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I did just about every modification possible (aside from forced induction) with little to no gains. I had the following modifications,
Doug Thorley long tube headers, high flow cat, flow master exhaust, 4.56 gears, tuner, cai, experimented with egr cycling among other things.... Was still unimpressed. (of course I had the 275 hp V10 in my truck).
Doug Thorley long tube headers, high flow cat, flow master exhaust, 4.56 gears, tuner, cai, experimented with egr cycling among other things.... Was still unimpressed. (of course I had the 275 hp V10 in my truck).
Fleet Mechanic
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From: Phoenix, AZ
I did just about every modification possible (aside from forced induction) with little to no gains. I had the following modifications,
Doug Thorley long tube headers, high flow cat, flow master exhaust, 4.56 gears, tuner, cai, experimented with egr cycling among other things.... Was still unimpressed. (of course I had the 275 hp V10 in my truck).
Doug Thorley long tube headers, high flow cat, flow master exhaust, 4.56 gears, tuner, cai, experimented with egr cycling among other things.... Was still unimpressed. (of course I had the 275 hp V10 in my truck).
Cargo Master
Joined: Jun 2011
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From: Cincy area
I did just about every modification possible (aside from forced induction) with little to no gains. I had the following modifications,
Doug Thorley long tube headers, high flow cat, flow master exhaust, 4.56 gears, tuner, cai, experimented with egr cycling among other things.... Was still unimpressed. (of course I had the 275 hp V10 in my truck).
Doug Thorley long tube headers, high flow cat, flow master exhaust, 4.56 gears, tuner, cai, experimented with egr cycling among other things.... Was still unimpressed. (of course I had the 275 hp V10 in my truck).
You werent impressed with the gear swap? That seems to be the easiest way to gain real power at the wheels. Gears make all the difference in the world IMO.
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