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Jul 10, 2006 | 10:18 PM

machinist man

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Programmer & Tuner ?'s

I've been looking at getting programmer for my 02 F150. I did a search on programmers, and an "economy" tune was mentioned in some posts. I looked on Superchips, Hypertech, and Diablo websites, and I didn't see anything about economy tunings. My questions are what tuners have an economy tune, and what are the milage gains with the economy settings? Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Jul 11, 2006 | 02:36 PM

stang3O2

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I have a Superchips on my 02 FX4 and there is no "economy" setting. Also I noticed NO GAIN in fuel mileage...if anything it probably dropped and I just run the basic 87 octance setting. Only bought it to recal my speedo and shift points for my 35s. Rarely have ever used the performance or tow setting which requires over 91 octance...which means the fuel burns quicker and loss of mpg in my opinion. I have no advice on any other programmer but Superchips! If you want better fuel mpg and a "economy" setting....best advice is keep your foot out of it and run the speed limit!

Jul 11, 2006 | 09:57 PM

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You are wrong. the higher octane like 91 burns slower than 87 octane. thats why the engine runs cooler and is able to advance the timeing and not get detination. if you run the 87 octane fuel ont he 91 octane tune level you probably get some bad detination or diesling from a hot spot in the cylinder.

Jul 12, 2006 | 11:30 AM

stang3O2

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BURNSTOUGHFORD...you are totally missing the point! He wanted to know about economy settings etc, I told him that I noticed no gain in mpg with either setting of 87 octance or performance/tow that requires over 91 octane to run. YES obviously you dont run 87 with "performance" as well as with 91 or over with the 87 octance setting due to detonation. And YES you are right, I got ahead of myself...the higher octance does burn slower and cooler...I agree, typed faster than I was thinking!

Jul 12, 2006 | 03:38 PM

LxMan1

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My Predator picked up about 1mpg in town and 2mpg on the hwy when running the 93 octane setting. The more efficient that you make the engine the better mileage it will get. It makes more power, so it takes less throttle to move the truck si it uses less fuel.
Never seen an "economy setting on any of them"

Jul 12, 2006 | 08:56 PM

ksuroper

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I am considering the new edge chip, but I am waiting to hear some more about it. I am stil curious to see whether you can run all the tunes on 87 octane.

Jul 14, 2006 | 09:23 AM

tex25025

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Most of your tuners won't really have economy tunes for your gas burners, because they are just aren't as efficient as with diesels. Edge evolution is a good tuner, but last a can recall, they don't even mention better fuel economy on any of their gas tuners, and i'm not all that impressed with their horsepower gains on it either, however, you can experiance milage improvement in the performance setting(my experiance is with diesel, so keep that in mind), as long as you don't try to drag race at every light or puff black smoke out the exhaust(lot of people like that, but to me its wasted fuel and wasted power). Long winded way of saying, you aren't going to find many economy tunes for gas burners like you would for diesel, my advice on the best way to overcome that, is try to have a light foot as much as you can.