more power for towing
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more power for towing
I just found this site. This is the greatest thing since sliced bread!
I have a 1994 F150 (5L) 4x4 reg cab, long box with true dual 2 1/2" custom SS exhaust with high flow cats. and resinators and I recently added a K&N air filter. I tow a 14x7' wedge-nosed enclosed (about 4000lbs) fairly often.
I was wondering if there was a chip or module I could get to try to give me a little more power while towing. Or do I need to change the gears?
I have a 1994 F150 (5L) 4x4 reg cab, long box with true dual 2 1/2" custom SS exhaust with high flow cats. and resinators and I recently added a K&N air filter. I tow a 14x7' wedge-nosed enclosed (about 4000lbs) fairly often.
I was wondering if there was a chip or module I could get to try to give me a little more power while towing. Or do I need to change the gears?
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Re: more power for towing
Originally posted by grizzle
I just found this site. This is the greatest thing since sliced bread!
I have a 1994 F150 (5L) 4x4 reg cab, long box with true dual 2 1/2" custom SS exhaust with high flow cats. and resinators and I recently added a K&N air filter. I tow a 14x7' wedge-nosed enclosed (about 4000lbs) fairly often.
I was wondering if there was a chip or module I could get to try to give me a little more power while towing. Or do I need to change the gears?
I just found this site. This is the greatest thing since sliced bread!
I have a 1994 F150 (5L) 4x4 reg cab, long box with true dual 2 1/2" custom SS exhaust with high flow cats. and resinators and I recently added a K&N air filter. I tow a 14x7' wedge-nosed enclosed (about 4000lbs) fairly often.
I was wondering if there was a chip or module I could get to try to give me a little more power while towing. Or do I need to change the gears?
do you have mufflers?-
if not already have an x or h pipe installed
have mike troyer of www.troyerperformance.com do a tow tune for you -phil
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Hi Grizzle,
Welcome to F-150 Online!
Yes, we can provide you with very nice custom tuning to get the most out of your 1994 F-150, no problem - our custom tuning is your single best bang-for-the-buck performance enhancement.
Usually most people will go that route first, since you do get a nice power & torque gain as well as other benefits, and it's less expensive than doing a gear ratio change. Towing 4000 lbs. really doesn't require a gear ratio change in most cases - now if it was say, 6500-8000 lbs., I'd say do *both* - a chip to raise power *and* more gear to increase torque multiplication, too. But given that it's under 5000 lb being towed, I'd say give the tuning a shot first - that will help torque *all* the time, at any throttle position or rpm, and that's critical when dealing with a heavy truck or SUV, especially one doing towing, and that also have a true dual exhaust system - which virtually always reduces lower rpm torque even though you gain higher rpm horsepower.
I also agree with Phil, if you don't already have a good X-pipe in that dual exhaust setup, you might want to give that a shot too, after the chip - a good x-pipe will help improve scavenging & thus torque.
Please feel free to give us a call at our number listed below to go over this in more detail if you like - go over exact gains, costs, results, or any other questions you might have.
Good luck with your truck - nice to see people keeping those pre-1997's on the road & going strong!
Welcome to F-150 Online!
Yes, we can provide you with very nice custom tuning to get the most out of your 1994 F-150, no problem - our custom tuning is your single best bang-for-the-buck performance enhancement.
Usually most people will go that route first, since you do get a nice power & torque gain as well as other benefits, and it's less expensive than doing a gear ratio change. Towing 4000 lbs. really doesn't require a gear ratio change in most cases - now if it was say, 6500-8000 lbs., I'd say do *both* - a chip to raise power *and* more gear to increase torque multiplication, too. But given that it's under 5000 lb being towed, I'd say give the tuning a shot first - that will help torque *all* the time, at any throttle position or rpm, and that's critical when dealing with a heavy truck or SUV, especially one doing towing, and that also have a true dual exhaust system - which virtually always reduces lower rpm torque even though you gain higher rpm horsepower.
I also agree with Phil, if you don't already have a good X-pipe in that dual exhaust setup, you might want to give that a shot too, after the chip - a good x-pipe will help improve scavenging & thus torque.
Please feel free to give us a call at our number listed below to go over this in more detail if you like - go over exact gains, costs, results, or any other questions you might have.
Good luck with your truck - nice to see people keeping those pre-1997's on the road & going strong!