Sometimes I have questioned if the mods I made were worth it. Well yesterday I raced my friend who has a 2000 model F-150 just like mine and it was not even close. I smoked him badly so I think the mods I made are well worth it. So all you guys thinking about it, Just Do It!!!!

 

Hi Mikey,

We had another F-150 Online participant who mentioned that he did his mods, intake, chip & exhaust, and then got a chance to drive another F-150 just like his that was still bone-stock, and he posted about the same thing, quite a difference. You don't often get a chance to do that, but anytime you do, you quickly see that these mods do work, as you said.

Have fun,

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Performance Products, Inc.
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Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
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Hi Mike Tryor
If i buy a chip from for my 1988 f-150 will the drive train and transmission be able to handle it. I have the smallest V 8

 

Mike, is NO2 bad for the lightning truck. My friend wants to put some on his 00L. What do you think?

 

Hi djc122984,

Excellent question since it's a little bit older vehicle, being a 1988 model, I'm glad you asked.

When thinking about chipping an "older" vehicle, the main thing to look at is what kind of condition are the motor & transmission in? How many miles are on it, is the motor using any excessive amount of oil, is it showing any visible smoke from the exhaust, etc.

As long as the motor & transmission are basically healthy, you can safely use the Superchip. It doesn't stress any components beyond their design limitations, and the power gain from the Superchip is roughly about 10% on those 5.0 302 cu. in. motors like you have, so it's not like bolting on a supercharger or nitrous oxide, where it's going to put a real strain on the motor. We have a number of customers who install Superchips on engines with over 100,000 miles on them, and that's fine as long as the motor is healthy and you don't treat it like a race car.

What we've found over the years is that what matters far more than an engine's potential peak power output when pushed to the limit, is how the vehicle is actually driven, treated & maintained.

If you'd like to give is a call, we'll be happy to go over the exact details of your vehicle with you, if you'd like to see if it's potentially a good candidate for the Superchip, so you can give it some thought.

Good luck with your truck,

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
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Hi Mikey,

There are a fair number of '99 & '00 Lightning owners running nitrous, as long as you're *very* careful about which kit and how much you use, it can be done safely.

If he's running the factory program (meaning he's not using any performance chip), he can safely run about a 50hp-75hp shot of nitrous, as there's enough extra fuel in the factory program for that.

Most Lightning owners using nitrous are using custom programmed Superchip Flip Chips, which can store 2 different programs, one for nitrous and the other for the rest of the time.

If your friend needs some advice and would like to be able to call someone to go over the basics, feel free to have him call us, we'll be happy to go over that with him if he needs assistance.

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
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Thanks Mike. I got the R9 chip from you about a month ago, but it's a single program. What are the options with that?

 

A little off subject but Mike, what exactly is the R9 chip?

I may give you a call one of these days too. I may want to see about adding even more "crispy" to the shifts and want to know if my chip can be reprogrammed to get the result or should I think about a shift kit.

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Hi Mikey,

Well, we can always do a custom program in the single-program Superchip too, but that won't work with nitrous oxide, as nitrous oxide is only on when you need it, and so you need 2 different programs, one for nitrous and the other for the rest of the time when you're not running nitrous, so for that application you really need the 2-program Flip Chip.

If that's what you want to do, you should probably give us a call, and we can work some kind of deal where you trade in your single-program Superchip and replace it with the Flip Chip. Just give us a shout via phone or email, and we'll work something out for you if this is what you want to do.

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
First National F-150 Online Rally Event Organizer

 

Hi Family Ride,

The "R9" is a designation we use for describing the Superchip for the new supercharged Lightnings, R9 is the current program version for them. The Lightnings are much more complicated in terms of their powertrain controls than any other production vehicle Ford has ever made, so they required on-going R&D to figure out all their little secrets & tricks. So for the Lightning owners, we keep track of which programs are which by that type of designation, and this is applicable *ONLY* to 1999 & newer Lightnings.

As far as getting you harder upshifts, that can easily be done either way, either in the Superchip or via a shift kit. Either way the cost is about the same roughly, and given that, I usually prefer to do it in the chip and not mechanically modify the transmission, but my point of view is probably a bit biased, given what we do.

My perspective on this is, these automatic transmissions are already capable of generating more than enough physical line pressure to give much firmer shifting; it's just a question of how much you dial in via the programming, and the factory program uses very little line pressure, less than 100 psi at full-throttle, and about 65 psi at idle. I see shifts kits as a part to use when the transmission is not physically capable of producing enough line pressure, and in that case, they're great!

Just give us a shout, and we'll be happy to go over this with you.

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
First National F-150 Online Rally Event Organizer