BELTS ? bubbabud

 

do you feel more power when you run it in the economy mode or level 2 if i am correct.

 

I just got and installed this (Evo CS) as well, and give a +1 to new truck feel (and on level 1 economy), nice shifting and acceleration, and "warp-drive" is there instantaneously as opposed to stock where if you stomped on it I swore the 5.4 would call dearborne for permission to rev I believe you wont be able to use E85 in it anymore (unless you tune back to stock) 1 thread I read said the ford's oem tune castrated the 5.4 because of it having to be multi-fuel agnostic. The biggest problem I had was getting the pod to stick to the dash, thrilled with performance so far. Too soon to tell but maybe about 0.5 mpg to the good fo far.

 

great to know thanks for your insight!

 

I run it on level 2 "economy/towing" because its set up for 87 octane and I'm already paying a lot for gas. Plus, this is supposed to be the most fuel efficient setting. If I felt like paying to run 91 or higher all the time I'd run it on level 3. But to answer your question, yes! It has a lot more get up and go.

 

After having mine for over a year, and running multiple tanks of gas through it, and doing multiple gas mileage calculations by hand, (the Edge exaggerates by about 3MPG), I found the best setting for maximum fuel economy was to leave it stock or do a trans only and set the shift points as low as they will go.

I think the MPG exaggeration is a sly sales plan by Edge.

 

Do you have a flexfuel 5.4L3V? My estimate above was based on before/after reads of the on-board running avg mpg, not what the tuner said. after resetting both this AM, after my 25 mile commute Evo said 19.6 and on-board said 19.3, driven very softly trying to watch the mileage coach. My previous baseline was 16.7, but I usually drive a bit more gonzo than this morning I know its not enough time/distance yet. Next fill I will compare it to actual, the on-board could be off as well although it has seemed close. Im surprised the Evo doesnt have a 'trim' feature to help calibrate it, my old scanguage did.

 

I agree with this 100%. On continual testing (04/4.6), the Edge shows an average of 17 to 18, but on actual calculation gas mileage is really 15.8 or so. Pretty much same as stock........

On the other hand, you do feel power/acceleration gains on level 2

 

Update: I have had several fillups, and for me, despite colder temps, my mileage hand-calc is 18.3-18.7 and about +- 1 mpg off Evo. For me it does seem a bit better than stock. I did have a problem withe the Evo going dark (into recovery mode) which 'seems' to be related to temp, It was -2F and it just failed to light, and started beeping, requiring a fusion software recovery operation. Hope thats not a trend, there are dozens more chances for (-F) temps here in the next few months

 

I had an Edge programmer in my 06 for five years set at level 2. I found the truck shifted a lot better and less often especially hauling my trailer. I really didn't see a difference with the mileage and didn't care since it was bought strictly for the transmission.