You get your 1704 yet, Ken?

It shipped 2 day on Friday...you should have it today.

 

Nope. Waiting. Plus our WD seems to be swamped as well.

 

Well......this came direct so you should have it today.

 

does this apply to the 7.3 as well

 

Sorry I did not.
I am a salesman for a ford dealer here in FLA. They like me to buy all my stuff in house so they can show it to customers. Because I work there it is probably the right thing to do.

 

I haven't spent as much timedatalogging the 7.3, but yes......similar power level drops do occur stock.

 

Vic I read in a previous post that the micro tuner kept the EGT's in the safe zone. What exactly is a safe EGT for the 6.0? Everything I read is bassed on the 7.3 turbo. Is it the turbo we need to worry about, or the pistons, or a combination of both? Last question in your testing where do you place the pyro probe, and where do you reccomend we place the probe on our trucks for max effectivness. thanks in advance for any answers. Jerry

 

The probe should be in the manifold.

EGT should not be above 1400 for very long and under no circumstances should it hit 1600 for more than a few seconds.

The HOTTEST I've seen with the Tow file and Economy file was 1150/1200 respectively....this is at max load, max boost with so much load the truck would no longer accelerate at wide open throttle. This was repeated many times, and often for extended periods of time.

The Performance file would hit 1400 intermittently, but only at VERY high RPM (higher than the 3900 RPM shift point) and only under loads. As soon as it shifts, the EGT drops way down again.

We cruised at 90 on the highway pulling a race trailer with a mustang, fuel and a bunch of tools with EGT's under 800 degrees. This was with the performance file =o)

This doesn't mean you should go tear down sea walls with the performance file or tow a 5th wheel. In fact, I strongly recommend that you do NOT attempt this.
Follow ALL tow limits for each file.

Tow file: Limited only by what Ford recommends stock for max load.
Economy file: up to 8,000 LBS
Performance: up to 6,000 LBS

Gauges are not necessary, but always recommended (even on stock trucks).

 

Vic,

A clarifications and a few questions:

The Predator does both. It saves it within and allows you to set it back at anytime and allows you to save it on your computer.

How fast is the download cycle? This sounds interesting.

I don't know which Predator revision you've seen, but since the 2nd update it does modify the tranny shift points.

Do you do it as two seperate downloads (since the tranny system is a different computer)? Or are you have the shifts modified by changing the torque table? (Hope I'm not digging too deep, I'm a bit twiddler at heart)

How is performing (EGTs) at high altitude?

 

High altitude EGT's are also acceptable.

We do use two separate downloads, but they go together and they go quickly. Much less cycling of the key.
The shift tables are changed correctly, through the shift program itself.
The tuner will tell you it is installing file #1 (and show a percentage until done), then does the same with file #2.
Naturally, one file is the engine file and the other is tranny.

 

Is this at the absolute threshold of efficiency, on all parameters?
Curiosity, why no more EGT at this point?

 

If I was to add more boost or "change" fuel or other parameters (and that's as far as I will explain for proprietary reasons), the EGT could go higher still.

This test was done at many different loads, on the street and dyno, at many different temps, gear, and throttle positions.

 

Does this up the top end limiter and show live data?

 

Yes it does remove the top speed limiter and no it does not show live data.

 

Any quarter mile times with the 150 HP setting from anyone?