Your project sounds pretty cool. Have you ran MAF on this truck before the work you are doing now? Is that how you know about the super duper, awesome 'Air Adjuster'??
Also, are you running the F3 cylinder heads? Porting? I have heard that Reincarnation (They are located south of Seattle and Scott is the man there) does a great job at porting these heads and porting the intake.
My truck is mostly used to pull my toy hauler - 8,000 lbs. So I need the most torque I can get to 'conquer' the hills in the rocky mountains. I hate hitting a slight incline and boom, it's like someone hit the brakes - really sucks. So I don't think I will need multiple programs but it does need to pass emissions - so maybe at least 2 programs, one for max performance and another for the smog police...

Snow Snow and more Snow!!! you guys can't get a break. Stay warm..
Verle

 

Hey Verle, Scott is the man for iron headed porting no doubt about that.
I bought the air adjuster for my mustang w/ a 347 W/ N2O hoping to cut costs and have a better and easier product for tuning. Well that didnt happen!! I ended up just throwing it away along with pistons and block. Lesson learned. Then i took on Tweecer rt and never looked back. Once i really understood the ford ECM i realized the air adjuster was just a bandaid to tuning and their customer support sucks to boot. Im keeping the E7TE heads as my truck is Speed density and those Ecm`s are finicky. I may turbo the monster in the future and then ill go w/ a Maf setup w/ some F3`s. I had Steve balance the motor W/ ARP Main studs and ARP rod bolts for a little overkill for the future. I would never run alot of boost just enough for towing. I feel this is better than a cummins conversion. My deal is strickly MPG-durability-reliability. I still hear doubt in your posts about the dyno tune ). Heres why i learned the tweecer rt- i had also sent away for a custom chip at a cost of 365.00. I never felt the difference w/ the chip. I had Tweecer read the BIN file of the chip and when i learned what i had payed 365 bucks for, i was pissed. Man did they rip my *** off!! right then and there i decided i was going to tune my car and nobody else!! I still feel that Don Lasorta can hook you up with out you going to a tuner and not knowing what was done to your motors tune. I would give him a call and discuss you options w/ him first. he can setup your QH according to your specs and then you can email him the datalog and he will correct anything that could be off and email you back the bin file to be put back in the QH. A BIN file is the tuning file. If you have a questions feel free to Call me. I would give Don a call first though. Just my .02 cents

Larry
732 557 9423

 

Hi Larry,
Well, I have been reading more from LaSota's web site. This is making a lot more sense now and it seems more do-able for me.
This MAF sensor I have I guess is a C&L body with this sensor in it - F1ZF-12B579-AA (at least that's my understanding). I do plan on contacting LaSota and see what we can do. If I can keep this MAF then ok, it not - spend more $$$.

The photo I will email you is of my engine currently and how I plumbed the intake. I had to have the Y-pipe made at a local muffler shop (I don't know how to post a photo on here yet). All in all I am pleased with it but I had to modify (hack) my overflow/washer bottle - still trying to figure the best solution for that mess.

Anyhow, thanks for the help and good luck with your build. I was thinking of going mild with my build to stay with SD. But living in the mountains and wanting more torque, I feel I had to go for it - spend more $$.

Thanks, Verle.

 

Larry, I thought I could send you an email, not sure what your email is. I have some photo's for you. Better yet, I will post them in 'Garage'.

 

Here you go Verle dentmecx@comcast.net I think one day ill be going Mass air too. its just easier to tune. I think youll be real happy w/ Don Lasorta. Hes a real good tuner and is SCT certified also. Ive never heard or read a bad thing about him

Larry