Fordtune.com - thoughts?

Fordchip.com - thoughts?

O.k. It seems like dyno tune events are sprouting up all around me this year. One of them is in part with www.fordchip.com for a pull and tuneing.

I've never heard of them mentioned on this board before. Are they any good?

With limited mods (Exhaust, Pro-M 75mm MAF, 5% pulley, 195lph Fuel pump, 3" intake tube and K&N filter) does it even make sense to do that yet?

Or would I be better spending the money on an EEC tuner and working with Dr. Fred when I get more mods (10% pulley, bigger injectors, throttle body) to make it ideal?

With so many options it's hard to make the right choices to get the most bang for the buck.

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It would be hard to beat a dyno-tune with 02 senser on the dyno.

If you plan future up grades I would stick with SC only tuners.

www. bjherron@apten-us.com he has a dyno,you will know air-fuel ratio
& H.P. gains

I am shure Dr.Fed is good tuner,but you get less info on out come of the tune.

if they are close to you, getting a dyno tune would be the best bet. They also do good work.

Brian

Mike,

The link you posted doesn't work. Did you mean to say

http://www.fordchip.com/ instead ?

David

Mike8675309 said:

With limited mods (Exhaust, Pro-M 75mm MAF, 5% pulley, 195lph Fuel pump, 3" intake tube and K&N filter) does it even make sense to do that yet?

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I'd like to get an opinion on that too. I'll have those same mod's in a few days, I'm wondering if a chip would be next or if I should wait.


*I'd love to hear about a chip & dyno tune day somewhere. I'd be willing to travel for that in the Spring/Summer. I saw on Brian's site about a 2 position chip. That sounds really good.

I know a guy who travelled over 200 miles to have Jerry tune his car. He got all the way to the dyno shop, pulled his upper (* 5.0) and switched injectors. He did all this because he knew Fordchip does good work.

Reinhart was at that tune too with the 500 HP Mark VIII.

Yep, that's the link. I got confused with Dyno Tune and FordChips.

It sounds like FordChips is generally good, especially with a Dyno available to tune it right in.

What are the down sides to having a chip burned, rather than an EEC tuner purchase? Are reburns possible for reasonable costs?

Getting technical here, I know but.

When should a guy modding his SC think about a tuning session on the dyno?

My fears:
I get a chip when I am only 25% done with my mods. And then when I add something else the car will run just awful until I get a new chip reburn. The stock programing is not spot on, but that gives you some room to add mods and it still runs. I'm afraid that if I do the chip now, when I throw that 75mm throttle body on this August, my April chip burn will make the car miserable because of how optimized it was for the previous setup.

Is that a fair fear, or am I being stupid?

once a car is dyno tuned, it is pretty good at learning fuel changes as you add modifications. In general, here are some reasons you would want to re-tune or atleast re-dyno the car to check it.

Different MAF
Different heads/cams
extreme blower change (going from stock to full MP setup).


Otherwise, small changes can be done via mailing the chip back. I mail changes all the time to chips that I have sold for customers. If you get a dyno pull and send it to the chip burner, they can take that pull and adjust the fuel and spark based on the dyno information

Brian