whitecrystal1

You need to fly you truck over here so he can put it on his dyno. It's a night and day difference. I don't know if it's because of the exhaust and intake or just because he had it in his shop but I'll tell you one thing. It drives a hell of a lot better now and it's not just the power, that's a big bonus in it's self, but the way it shifts now is soooo much better. I was not completely satisfied with how it down shifted before or even how the engine was reacting when I would come off full hard throttle. That seems to be 100% corrected now

nashtruck

If I did my math right you picked up 50+ HP which is great! I would love to hear if you have any MPG gains.

JohnC

Congrats! Glad you like the results and I had no doubt you would be happy.

JohnC

Oh if you don't mind what did the header run ya?

wxmcpo

Man would I love to do that, but $3600 is a little too much for my blood right now. When I get the truck back to CONUS in 2010 (unless I can get another tour in Hawaii) then I'm gonna have to seriously look at getting it to Mike's shop for some dyno runs. Of course when I do make it back to CONUS there will be other financial considerations such as a new house, new car for the wife etc.....Truck may have to take a back seat. Wow did I just say that!

iluvmyford

i had alwasy been told that you would have to have an increase of 15 hp to notive a difference. Do you all know if this is true or used to be in the old days or what.

JohnC

iluvmyford I am not sure about the "15 hp to feel the difference" but I can tell you I picked up 44 RWHP and you can definitely feel that. With custom tuning you "feel" a huge difference in throttle response. In my case my truck would lag/stall in sections of the rpm band, Mike Troyer explained that this is due to Fords use of the ECU having a Torque Predictive Management System. This TPMS predicts what you may need and sometime you get what you ask for and sometimes all you get is hesitation/lag/stall feeling. Custom tuning from Troyer eliminates this. I am sure other tuners can do it to but I am happy with my set up and it sure sounds like whitecrystal1 is happy.

LovetheTide

Those are very nice gains. I had no clue you would gain that much TQ.

whitecrystal1

Here's my truck on the Mike's dyno


Here is a couple videos


Here are the graphs




Here's Mike in my truck, liking what he's seeing

whitecrystal1

I hopefully will know soon.

This was a little costly.
Headers and High flow cats $1356
3.5" Intake ..................... $ 299
MBRP Exhaust ................. $ 432
MISC Shop materials ......... $ 16
Labor for everything ......... $ 618
Brisk plugs I brought home . $ 125
Can of Aerokroil ................ $ 15
VA tax ............................ $ 112
Total............................... $2973

That's an understatement There is a little more drone than I like but other than that I couldn't be happier