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so what have you 5.4 guys done to upgrade your engine

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Old 01-30-2012, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by ak_cowboy
Show me a vid.

What gears? What engine? 2 or 4wd? Cab/bed configuration?

There is no way you laid 40ft of rubber, not touching the brakes, on dry pavement, with only a supercrap tuner, exhaust, and a cai
maybe he has an open differential, haha!
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Originally Posted by Platinum_Sean

Of course not, because they DON'T!
Lol don't tell that to a civic owner! Lol
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I put full syn oil in it and gained .25 HP and .17 TQ. Don't notice any mpg improvment though.
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Originally Posted by RRF150
I put full syn oil in it and gained .25 HP and .17 TQ. Don't notice any mpg improvment though.
How did you measure this?
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Originally Posted by Randy_270
I did a k&n cold air intake, magnaflow catback exhaust and a superchips tuner with the cold air intake tune on my 2010 fx4 and i notice a pretty big difference. cost me about $1200 and truck leaves about 40 feet of rubber on the road without using the brakes now. so if going from just chirping the tires to leaving about 40 feet of rubber on the road isnt a big enough difference for you then hope you have lots of money for a supercharger. good luck with your mods.
No offense but I fine that had to believe. Especially since I have the same truck 2010 fx4 sc 3.73 with the exact same mods. I will say it did make a big difference but nothing close to 40 ft of rubber on dry with out a the brake. I would need to see a video of this. I dought the guy with the e-force supercharge can do that!!!
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Originally Posted by BAD4U
How did you measure this?
Just seat of the pants feel.
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I just put a GT bullydog 3 tuner on my Ecoboost but it's compatible for the 5.4 too.. I've gone up about 30 hp and 30 torque, it helps a lot with the bigger tires on my lift. .. It's about $469 and well worth, sits on the dash and has a touch screen, can set whatever gauges you want on it for temperature, speed, boost, fuel economy whatever! Also can do performance testing such as time a 0-60 , and also took the limiter off so even though it's not a good idea on my mud terrains my truck is capable of 150 mph now. Well worth the money IMO.
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Volant CAI, Magnaflow cat-back, and a SuperChips programmer. By the way.., does anyone know if I can use a tune for a different CAI, since there isn't a tune for a Volant system?
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Originally Posted by RRF150

Just seat of the pants feel.
Lol....oh good, i was hoping that you were not sticking your finger in the oil and checking it with your tongue.

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Originally Posted by abouzahrr
I just put a GT bullydog 3 tuner on my Ecoboost ..
GTFO!!!

Originally Posted by JCooper
Volant CAI, Magnaflow cat-back, and a SuperChips programmer. By the way.., does anyone know if I can use a tune for a different CAI, since there isn't a tune for a Volant system?
90% of CAIs are the same so the tunes should work fine. The only ones that would be different are a Ram Air intake in which you're forcing more air than normal.


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