Those DH owners with Ford Performance SC Weigh in

[cobra4548]

For all of you with the SC from Ford Performance :

For those that haven’t modified your car once the SC has been installed, have you had any issues since installation? I am looking for serious answers please.

I am ready to pull the trigger and my local Ford dealer is ready to install it. As I will be daily driving it I wanted to see if anyone had any issues or regrets.

I have had several SC mustangs but they have all had built motors.

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[Ninjak]

I have the Ford Performance SC system. It was stage 1, with the Whipple tune. I had zero issues. CAr drove stock until you smash the vertical pedal on the right.

I now have a stage 2 setup with a custom tune. The car still drives very well until the go pedal is pressed. Well now, it just goes a lot faster

 

[Q6543]

I’m stage 2, I would skip the stage 1 and go directly to stage 2.
And get the cats off EITHER WAY, immediately!

Throw the warranty in the garbage, a stage 2, catless is far less likely to experience failure than a stage 1 warranty WITH cats.

 

[cobra4548]

What do you mean Stage 1 and Stage 2?? The Ford Performance website doesn’t mention anything about Stages

 

[ZXMustang]

You will need to remove the cats at some point. Just know that.

 

[Ken H.]

How do you guys, with cats removed, pass inspection? Won’t it fail when they stick the tail pipe sampler in?

 

[Ninjak]

<------------------------Has no inspections.

The Whipple setup, regardless of who you get it from, has a Stage 1,2,3 and 4.

Stage 1 is the setup with the Whipple calibration (Ford approved), with the smaller Y-tube, 3.8 pulley, and the 92mm GT500 TB. You will have a warranty for this setup, but from what I have been told, it will not cover cat failure, which is usually the cause of your other issues when it happens.

Stage 2 has the 112mm whipple TB, along with a 120mm Y-tube and the 3.75 pulley. It also has the WIpple calibration (not Ford-approved) for more boost and airflow, or get a custom tune.

Stage 3 is the 120mm TB and the 3.6 pulley. Now you need to use a boost-a-pump with the setup and a custom tune.

Stage 4 is the 3.5 pulley, 132mm TB, and you will need a fuel system along with quite a few other mods. Will truly need a custom tune with this setup, as you are now over the 1k WHP mark.

With any of the stages, you can get a custom tune. Using a custom tune will pull more power out of any of the stages you are running. While the tunes do have cat protection and other safeties in them, it is recommended that you go to HI-Flow cats or just remove them altogether.

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