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[ZXMustang]

I appreciate your experience and input here ZX.
I am still waiting a few months for all bugs to be worked out, and constantly reading to educate myself. You may still get me as a customer as I do appreciate how much you communicate on here which o me is huge. I seem to get a constant E70 from my local gas station her in Chicago burbs so maybe I just do straight E85 tune. I also may skip the 91/93 tune all together and save a few $ since it doesn't add much power for manual trans.
Going back to 93 may be pretty easy now that I know E30 runs fine.
My last tuner was good but he never elaborated, very short responses and missed answering my questions fully. It was a little annoying.

It does happen, but I try to be as responsive as I can be. Im on a device or computer basically every waking hour, so its virtually impossible for me to miss a notification - sad I know. My kids are mostly grown and the wife is very happy with the life I provide, so they are all very supportive of the existence. Again, sounds sad lol. But it works. I do most of my stuff once everyone is in bed.

If you want to do something at some point, PM me. I have an extensive portfolio on Tiktok - my daughter set it up. And you can see all the cars and their videos we've done. Anyway, Im not a vendor here, so back to the discussion and I appreciate the m7g gods for letting me stay around as a normal joe.

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[ChitownStang]

I appreciate your experience and input here ZX.
I am still waiting a few months for all bugs to be worked out, and constantly reading to educate myself. You may still get me as a customer as I do appreciate how much you communicate on here which to me is huge. I seem to get a constant E70 from my local gas station here in Chicago burbs so maybe I just do straight E85 tune. I also may skip the 91/93 tune all together and save a few $ since it doesn't add much power for manual trans.
Going back to 93 may be pretty easy now that I know E30 runs fine.
My last tuner was good but he never elaborated, very short responses and missed answering my questions fully. It was a little annoying.

It does happen, but I try to be as responsive as I can be. Im on a device or computer basically every waking hour, so its virtually impossible for me to miss a notification - sad I know. My kids are mostly grown and the wife is very happy with the life I provide, so they are all very supportive of the existence. Again, sounds sad lol. But it works. I do most of my stuff once everyone is in bed.

If you want to do something at some point, PM me. I have an extensive portfolio on Tiktok - my daughter set it up. And you can see all the cars and their videos we've done. Anyway, Im not a vendor here, so back to the discussion and I appreciate the m7g gods for letting me stay around as a normal joe.

I will need to get a TikTok account, that app always scared me! lol
Any issues just doing e85 tune with E70 gas I get and switching back to stock tune for winter months? Or am I better off just getting the 91/93 tune to go back to?

 

[ZXMustang]

I will need to get a TikTok account, that app always scared me! lol
Any issues just doing e85 tune with E70 gas I get and switching back to stock tune for winter months? Or am I better off just getting the 91/93 tune to go back to?

If you stay stock mechanically, then no issue at all swapping back to the stock tune. And most of your knock protection is from e70+ anyway. So you would be safe there. I could do a closer to e70 stoich tune to get your fuel trims closer to zero if you know your local station is like e70. I could also drop the spark cap down a degree or two if the car doesnt like the full E spark set up I do. Very simple revisions, plus I'd give you the full E tune as well so if you do get some super E or E from a drum, then you can flash to the full power tune and be good to go. Anything e70+ is going to be a noticeable difference to 93.

 

[ChitownStang]

If you stay stock mechanically, then no issue at all swapping back to the stock tune. And most of your knock protection is from e70+ anyway. So you would be safe there. I could do a closer to e70 stoich tune to get your fuel trims closer to zero if you know your local station is like e70. I could also drop the spark cap down a degree or two if the car doesnt like the full E spark set up I do. Very simple revisions, plus I'd give you the full E tune as well so if you do get some super E or E from a drum, then you can flash to the full power tune and be good to go. Anything e70+ is going to be a noticeable difference to 93.

Very cool!
You lost me a little bit with the e70 and fuel trims/spark. I need to better educate myself on this.
I’ve tested this Thortons for 3 years and it’s always been e70

 

[Cipis]

With supercharging and now tuning, was wondering how many of you are satisfied with leaving the car "as is" with no modifications ? As for me, I am happy with the performance, comfort, and fun it offers.

I am definitely leaving the car as it is. No single adjustment not because of warranty, because to me the car is just perfect as it is.

 

[sloww5ohh]

As soon as I got my car I knew exactly what appearance mods I had to do. Front Splitter, rear and side louvers, black out panel, and a better spoiler.…and strut tower brace. My wife thought I was crazy until I got it all on…now she can’t picture the car without them.

Other than little stuff like cargo mat, cargo net, GT floormats, random doo-dads, etc. I’m set.

Performance mods? Hell, it’s got nearly 200 more hp than my 06 GT, so I’m good.

My 06 GT had Flowmasters, JLT CIA and SCT tune. it gave me a little bump in hp, better throttle response and zero problems in 17 years of driving it. This new GT has so many bells and whistles, and gobs more hp, I’m set for quite a while.

So clean. Love it!

 

[LouG]

I don't use radar detectors for the purpose of speeding. My way of defensive driving is to not drive around other vehicles. They can't hit me if they aren't there.

That said, every single time it seems, when I slow down to let people go around me, they continue following me which I won't allow. Soo, when I pass, I pass quickly and leave people behind which is when I'm vulnerable. I don't like being vulnerable. Of course, like everyone else here (don't lie), I do accidentally hit the pedal now and then, only when it's safe of course. I refuse to believe that speed to a certain point, by itself, with intelligent people, causes as many accidents as "they" say. It does generate revenue, which "they" deny. I have zero points on my driving record (knock on wood).

I have to confess, I love rabbits. I hope they weren't upset, but we did get to some serious speeds for a while.

 

[tj@steeda]

I kept my 24 GT PP MR near stock but I did add progressive springs and the Steeda cradle upgrades.
It really transformed the handling: to someone who drives in fast curvy roads it’s totally worth it, highly recommend it.
Up to know now complains, no NVH etc.

Awesome feedback - we appreicate the support!

TJ

 

[Deleted member 63910]

I'm in the "leave it alone" category for now. But, the Whipple envy is real.

 

[ChitownStang]

No we arent doing flex tunes. Im with P1. Flex tunes are very inconsistent and not user friendly. If you think it safe to run one, thats fine I know you have a hardon for them since you ran one on your last car and it was perfect. In reality they have been very problematic and 9/10 tuners wont do them now and stopped offering them on the s550 a long time ago.

I'm not going to get into a debate with anyone including engineer mike. So don't bother, I wont reply. We do the 93 and E85 only tunes and there is simply no issue just running down a tank of 93. Filling up on E, driving a bit then flashing over to the E tune and vice versa. out of the now 100+ s650 cars I've tuned since the beginning of July, I think one guy wanted a flex tune so bad and tried to get one from another tuner. He couldnt find anyone to do them. D(e)RP is his own thing. Go ahead and buy his flex tune. Let me know how it goes.

I saw on Facebook that now you are going to do a flex tune?

 

[ZXMustang]

I saw on Facebook that now you are going to do a flex tune?

Not me. Not sure what you saw.

 

[Wiley Marmot]

Stock??!! What's that?

Our engines are fairly well stressed by Ford; I really don't think there's much meat left on the bone without going the supercharger route and that's not an option for me because I'm a normally aspirated guy (my last two cars were turbo 4s).

So I've concentrated on unnecessary fripparies. Wheels/tires, splitter, wing, badges, interior accent piping, shift knob, and paddle extensions, etc etc.

What I'd really like to do (and might some day) is rear seat delete, LiON bottery, and a pair of those ridiculously priced Recaro plug and play buckets from Ford Performance.

 

[ChitownStang]

Not me. Not sure what you saw.

Some guy named Michael , P1 underground tuning?

 

[ZXMustang]

Some guy named Michael , P1 underground tuning?

Yeah that’s the Louisiana p1 guys. I’m not affiliated with them. They do their own tuning.

 

[bountifulgoose]

I have mostly left it stock. I added the ford catch cans to keep things cleaner, a corsa HH pipe, to get a deeper tone, and a-little more volume. I also removed the carbon traps, and swapped the stock filters for some Think Auto filters. I added a viofo dash cam. I swapped my base dark horse wing for a body colored gt pp wing, got a nytop gtpp gurney flap. Removed the dh hood stripes, swapped the oem summer tires for michillin pilot sport all season 4’s . In a week or two I will be having my mirror caps painted body color, having the gurney flap painted gloss black, as well as having my wheels painted gloss black. I plan on finishing the car off by taking the DH badge off the trunk and installing one of those gloss black trunk appliqués. At this point the car is pretty damn perfect tbh a supercharger looks sweet, but most people dont talk about the tole it takes on a bunch of other components. It just becomes a rabbit hole.

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