chips for v-10
Laughing Gas
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From: Reno, NV
I've been doing some research on this for my truck... I'm 90% sure I'm going to get an SCT XCAL2 tuner for mine... They are custom tuned. I'm probably going with an 87 octane 'economy' tune, a 93 towing tune, and 93 performance tune.
(you can have a total of three tunes loaded into the tuner).
(you can have a total of three tunes loaded into the tuner).
More Turbo
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Be careful, someone, can't remember if it was for a 6.0 or 6.8, bought the SCT and it won't allow him to change the gear/tire sizes. I'd recommend getting that as part of a tuner. Most offer it and if you ever change your tire size/gears, you will need it or spend more money to get it right the second time.
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From: Sarnia, Ontario, CANADA!
Originally Posted by jdell
i have an 2000 f-250 v-10 with a cat back and intake spacer, any advice on what type of chip or programmer to get?
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the sct excal2 sf is the newest and is programed for the v10.
the sct can be redone on you own computer for gear, fuel and adding timing by going into www.sctflash.com and down loading a small program .
as to not being able to right away you can now with the new flash in the sf,
read for your self in sct's web site.
from my own use with sct excal2 i purchased from motorheaven this sites owner it's one heck of a product witch lead me to go and purchase the proracer program and dyno time. and man can you make these v10's cook tires.
the sct can be redone on you own computer for gear, fuel and adding timing by going into www.sctflash.com and down loading a small program .
as to not being able to right away you can now with the new flash in the sf,
read for your self in sct's web site.
from my own use with sct excal2 i purchased from motorheaven this sites owner it's one heck of a product witch lead me to go and purchase the proracer program and dyno time. and man can you make these v10's cook tires.
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I just went to www.sctflash.com and saw they had what is called an"eliminator" flip chip. This looks to be more like what the diesel guys have...they can switch on the fly which i would prefer than plugging the unit in and programming for 10 mins what level you wanted. I now have the superchips 1715 programmer, it works good but i'm looking for something better. Any ideas........
-Andrew
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Originally Posted by GT4point6
Be careful, someone, can't remember if it was for a 6.0 or 6.8, bought the SCT and it won't allow him to change the gear/tire sizes. I'd recommend getting that as part of a tuner. Most offer it and if you ever change your tire size/gears, you will need it or spend more money to get it right the second time.
Only tire size.
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no! but gear and tire size affects the electronic trans shift points. the eliminator chip i have no knowage or use of so i will not comment . but as to reprograming time it's about 5 mins . total
another nice point of the excalibrator 2 is useing the livelink and a lap top you can watch and record any of the 400 points of operation in the motor or trans. record it and print it all out.
what we did with mine was make 3 pulls found where it was weak went back into the dealer, "in my case proracer" program move things around till we had a very fine 87 tune and again till we had my 93 race tune.
sct is making major leaps on the others for reprograming a ford pcm.
another nice point of the excalibrator 2 is useing the livelink and a lap top you can watch and record any of the 400 points of operation in the motor or trans. record it and print it all out.
what we did with mine was make 3 pulls found where it was weak went back into the dealer, "in my case proracer" program move things around till we had a very fine 87 tune and again till we had my 93 race tune.
sct is making major leaps on the others for reprograming a ford pcm.
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Originally Posted by captchas
no! but gear and tire size affects the electronic trans shift points.
Are the '05-up different?
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yes art the 5r110 needs to know both to control the shift. If it has incorrect information it hunts for 4th and 5th gear. by not shifting correctly. found this out by the school of hard knocks and sct's extrem tune program that lets you chage the setting from your own computer. to correct the problem.
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Originally Posted by captchas
yes art the 5r110 needs to know both to control the shift. If it has incorrect information it hunts for 4th and 5th gear. by not shifting correctly. found this out by the school of hard knocks and sct's extrem tune program that lets you chage the setting from your own computer. to correct the problem.
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the trans has two speed sensers on the case.front input and rea out put. it has to know so the adjustments to road speed are correct for shifting
when mine was first done by the webmaster, I FAILED to tell him my rear axle ratio tire size . so he set it for a 04, 3:73's and smaller tire size.I caused ken a redo on my shifting as it would hunt up and down trying to shift into 4th and 5th. correct the tire size, axle ratio. problem gone.
when mine was first done by the webmaster, I FAILED to tell him my rear axle ratio tire size . so he set it for a 04, 3:73's and smaller tire size.I caused ken a redo on my shifting as it would hunt up and down trying to shift into 4th and 5th. correct the tire size, axle ratio. problem gone.
Laughing Gas
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I was always curious about fuel milage with tuners. I know most of the diesel tuners say that they will increase your MPG but what about the gas ones. More power is great but so is more MPG. I didn't buy mine for the fuel milage but more sure would be nice.