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32 inches is actually a lot deeper than most ICE vehicles are designed to go Most ICE vehicles say no higher than the center of the hubs, which by then has water trying to come thru the door seals, is swamping the differential and transmission vents, but most of all the air intake hoses that...

and this is why tinting the windshield below the AS1 line is not only a bad idea but illegal

There is a concept in tuning called "area under the curve" That tune has shifted the curve to higher RPM's and a narrower power band I think the math might be close but I'd love to sit down and figure the average HP and torque numbers in the area under the curve The motor with a higher...

The Ecoboosts will get a tune from Ford but not the 5.0

$450 was a gift ! Are you supplying him with hookers and blow on the side? Red paint is brutally expensive. If he has a mixing system he might have been able to mix a half pint but even then the paint alone was probably almost a C note, plus clear, activators and reducers, shop supplies and a...

I also suggest that on the front brakes you crack the bleeder and force the pads back with a screwdriver levering against the rotor and caliper. This prevents any crap in the pucks from being forced back up the line, and I also suggest gravity bleeding them by just opening the bleeder a little...

the hardest part is retracting the rear brake calipers into the service position Try this method if you do not have a bi-directional scan tool DO NOT FORGET TO TAKE IT OUT OF SERVICE MODE !!!!

My high was 30 MPG right after I got it, first 1000 miles when it got broken in and then highway driven 700 miles in 24 hours. Since then, on my Monday night pizza runs it has been about 20 MPG and I am not shy about letting it wind up in first before throwing it into D or giving the left...

Lots of shops use cages now even for car tires We had a couple of people killed here in the Fort Myers FL area within weeks of each other due to tire explosions...

Now you are talking major mods, not just putting a tune in an otherwise stock motor to get what HP/Torque was left inside due to being unable to meet CARB or EPA regulations by say adding timing to the tune which will raise the nitrous oxide emissions A stock motor or even one with a Cold Air...

you don't need one There are no gains to be had by tuning the stock or even C.A.I. 5.0, any benefit is achieved mostly by transmission shift point changes Now the Ecoboosts have some unharnessed power in them that makes it worth doing but not the 5.0 Coyote Gen 4 motors

I like your "outside the box" thinking, but for the safety of tire monkeys like me, Helium is the less fatal option. There have been instances where some of the "fix a flat" products used propane or butane as the propellant. When air was added and removed to the tire it got the gas mixture...

If you fill your tires with Helium the car gets lighter too You get a better HP to weight ratio.

the only reason IMHO for that little screw that holds the rotor to the hub face is to keep the rotor on the car during some part of the assembly line process. Some manufacturers use a spring clip over a lug stud to do the same thing First brake job those retainers get snipped with side cutters...

Did you have them road forced balanced? Any wheel that takes more than 2 ounces of weight needs to be broken down and spun 180 degrees on the wheel and rebalanced. Most shops won't do that, mine does.

your front brakes do 75%+ of the braking Tires help, a better pad can add stopping power without the huge cost of replacing calipers and rotors

The plane reported "something" over the threshold ( no shit Sherlock) and there was a hole in the fuselage when they inspected the plane at the gate. The FAA is going to have a field day with this As I said above this was inches (IMHO less than 99 of them ) from being an accident of Asiana...

you did better than my neighbor that hit a wild boar on the way back from Orlando one night $13K in damages

there is no Ford or Whipple fix , outside of warranty replacements for the Cats that are melting due to high flow/high heat /extended high RPM use even on the Ford/Whipple approved tune