Easy performance mod????
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Easy performance mod????
Ok - I am home now...My Dad's computer crashed so I couldn't post anything yesterday - How can he LIVE like that!? Hehe
The tape is 2" X 50', HVAC Foil (Aluminum) Tape and is $6.28 at Lowe's in the TAPE Aisle - hehe...Make sure to just take the airbox and tubing right off the truck and wrap everything! Don't wrap the box like a present, obviously, but just the outside of the two halves - took me just under 3 hours to do a good-looking job...
Jacobs went on a month before the tape - It gave me a 1.2 MPG increase over the previous month, while the tape gave me additional 1.9 MPG increase over the next month (ON TOP OF the Jacobs!)
How's THAT?
Biggest let-down...Hypertech Chip...No noticed improvement in mileage at all, and just a slighgtly better shift pattern from the transmission!
Steve
The tape is 2" X 50', HVAC Foil (Aluminum) Tape and is $6.28 at Lowe's in the TAPE Aisle - hehe...Make sure to just take the airbox and tubing right off the truck and wrap everything! Don't wrap the box like a present, obviously, but just the outside of the two halves - took me just under 3 hours to do a good-looking job...
Jacobs went on a month before the tape - It gave me a 1.2 MPG increase over the previous month, while the tape gave me additional 1.9 MPG increase over the next month (ON TOP OF the Jacobs!)
How's THAT?
Biggest let-down...Hypertech Chip...No noticed improvement in mileage at all, and just a slighgtly better shift pattern from the transmission!
Steve
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Easy performance mod????
Steve,
That's the tape I purchased. Looks like I'll be spending some time tomorrow wraping it....just like Christmas!
All the guys at F-150 online swear up & down by Superchips. The only draw back to it is that you have to run premium fuel. There's always Jetchips and Hypertech chips for sale over there.
Todd
That's the tape I purchased. Looks like I'll be spending some time tomorrow wraping it....just like Christmas!
All the guys at F-150 online swear up & down by Superchips. The only draw back to it is that you have to run premium fuel. There's always Jetchips and Hypertech chips for sale over there.
Todd
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