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Old 02-21-2019, 02:24 PM
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Don't bother with the 85 mm Tb. Your $$$ can be spent elsewhere and you'd get a better bang for your buck. Also if you want a TB you can buy an 87 mm tb and adapter from the GT350 that will work! Check MMR's website for that.
I will have to look at that. But everything I have read, 85 versus 90, doesn’t make a difference really. Why the 87? Where would you dump the extra $500?
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I will have to look at that. But everything I have read, 85 versus 90, doesn’t make a difference really. Why the 87? Where would you dump the extra $500?
If you read 85 vs 90 doesn't matter why would 80(stock) vs 85 matter? Go 87 because it's half the cost as the 85.
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If you read 85 doesn't matter why would 80(stock) vs 85?? Go 87 because it's half the cost as the 87...
gotcha. And hope five star tune will
compensate.
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I thought you were not supposed to run E85 in vehicles that are not flexfuel equipped? FlexFuel vehicles have stainless steel fuel lines and other special coated engine components to prevent corrosion that comes from using concentrated ethanol and non-flexfuel vehicles do not. Is this not the case with the F150?
This is a myth for the most part. Most modern day vehicles can support E85 as long as you can provide enough fuel via the pump and injectors. I ran E85 in my 2015 Civic Si for the last 6 months I owned the car before trading it in on the current FX4. All I did was throw in a set of ID1000 injectors and had the car tuned for the E85.
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Anyone finally make a shift in the fly (or parked at the gas station) tuner for a gasser?

SCT says their Livewire doesn’t.
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Now that I discovered none of these allow programming on the fly, is there any GREAT reason to get the Livewire TS+ instead of the SCT X4 handheld?

not seeing that it does anything more other than monitor on your dash.

I dknt mind spending the extra $200 if I get something for it.

https://www.stage3motorsports.com/50...stom-Tune.html
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Now that I discovered none of these allow programming on the fly, is there any GREAT reason to get the Livewire TS+ instead of the SCT X4 handheld?

not seeing that it does anything more other than monitor on your dash.

I dknt mind spending the extra $200 if I get something for it.

https://www.stage3motorsports.com/50...stom-Tune.html
With the X4 can you datalog directly from the device or do you have to hook a laptop up to it? I know with the live wire you can load a custom configuration right to the device and easily datalog. I'm not sure if you can with the x4.
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With the X4 can you datalog directly from the device or do you have to hook a laptop up to it? I know with the live wire you can load a custom configuration right to the device and easily datalog. I'm not sure if you can with the x4.
good lord.

Now i I have to research to figure out WTH you are talking about LOL.
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Looks like you can.

And can mount to windshield and monitor live.

Other than being pretty not sure it the bigger one is worth it.

https://www.sctflash.com/Products/un...nce-programmer
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With the X4 can you datalog directly from the device or do you have to hook a laptop up to it? I know with the live wire you can load a custom configuration right to the device and easily datalog. I'm not sure if you can with the x4.
I believe you need a laptop to log:

https://5startuning.com/datalog/
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