What is the better strategy to be running?
This is what I have right now


Does a list of the strategies and a description of what they do exist ?

Sean

 

That's a good question for the techs. I talked with a Ford diesel tech recently about this and he explained a couple of the strategies, but I was mainly focusing on mine particularly.

 

Maybe someone has a list and we can get it posted.
Or we can build a list from what people know.


Sean

 

I took down some notes, I'll see what I can come up with.

 

You can try to talk with someone at Power Hungry Performance, they were doing all sorts testing with different strategies and doing roll back flashes.

 

For the 05+ engines it seems the VXCF4 is the go to strategy for tuning.

Josh

 

I sent them an Email. I will post what I get back.

Sean

 

Dredging the memory reveals:

VXCF4 was original 05-07 strategy
VXCF5 took away most of the performance overhead in the FICM for tuning, and cost most of us 2-3 MPG. An "emissions" strategy
VXCF7 original "induction heating" strategy that blew up a LOT of FICMs
VXCF9 modified induction heating strategy that stopped eating FICMs, and perhaps gave us back some overhead in the FICM. Added a bunch of diagnostics (such as the 15-deg delta engine light).

-F6 and -F8 weren't publicly available.

-blaine

 

FICM strategies are separate from PCM strategies with many occurring independently.

The as delivered 2005 MY strategy was VXCF1. The as delivered 2006MY strategy should be VXCF2/3.

VXCF4 was available in October 2006 along with the Post-Cycle "Buzz" flash.

The FICM killer was February 2007 along with the VXCF5

Josh

Josh