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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Topic: Safety Recall Posted: 25 Feb 2013 at 2:37pm |
Well.. that and two turbochargers.. |
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Burt
Groupie Joined: 04 May 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 62 |
Posted: 25 Feb 2013 at 6:10pm |
OK, I give. I'll see your two turbochargers and yet, my comment was rooted in the MPG column and what can be done by the average towvehicle without purchasing a new one. My comment on the Eco Boost may have been out of the column. Forgive me.
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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Posted: 26 Feb 2013 at 10:54am |
Nothing to forgive.. it's all good. I am not, as of yet a fan of the eco-boost.. but EVERYONE I have met running one LOVES it. My brain goes to.. "just think what it would have been like had they put dual spools on the new 6.2..???!!!" I am a fan of forced induction. This household has been home to at least one power adder since 1979. No doubt at all that on most cars and trucks today, some added gains are available with a tuner. manufacturers have to build to a set standard, the one the EPA approved, and have a "safe tune" so that engines don't grenade. And, once you start playing with a tuner, you find that each engine will have a different setting even if minor, that makes it happiest. I have played with it a lot with my Mustang, and with her GTi.. I know about 20 v-dubs running hot tunes, and on a couple the mods and equipment are exactly the same, but there may be as much as 10% difference in where that particular pair of engines max out. In our case she is putting about 235 to the flywheel in her GTi, with a factory tune that was set at about 198. (In her case, mileage didn't change one way or the other with the tune.. but I don't think it's the cars fault) Nothing changed but the tune, and the fact that we run 93 octane only, allows us to bump it up pretty good, but much further, and a) the gains aren't worth the risk to the engine and transaxle, and.. with FWD, things get pretty hairy when you go above 230 or so anyways. Her next Golf will be a "R" or R32, I am sure. (AWD) |
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 26 Feb 2013 at 4:22pm |
I've been considering an aftermarket adjustment for my truck since last year, but one thing that stopped me is my active warranty. Didn't want to reprogram and end up with an issue they could trace back to it due to an invalid checksum. Looks like that GF operates actively on the OBD-II so it isn't an actual reprogram. Not all that expensive @ $69, either. Hmmmmmm.....
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