tune or chip?
tune or chip?
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Joined: Mar 1998
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From: Virginia
Hi Almost,
Welcome to F-150 Online!
All the info you could possibly want is already posted here, all you need to do is spend some time reading it, basically.
Learn to make use of the excellent SEARCH feature here (the icon to access it is in the upper right portion of your screen here) to retrieve & read posts on any specific topic you want. Virtually anything you can think to ask has already been covered many hundreds, if not literally thousands of times before here, so you can easily look it up and read all the info very quickly.
Everyone one who comes here wants to know the same basic information - what's the best way to go for more performance? So there are plenty of those kinds of posts to read. This section is packed with posts with reviews & results from fellow F-150 Online members who go with our custom tuning, for example - we've specialized in performance tuning the F-150 longer than anyone else, many F-150 owners come to us for their tuning & other performance needs.
Regarding tuning, what will get you the best results is our *custom* tuning (even for a bone-stock vehicle), which we can deliver in either a hand-held tuner to flash the PCM, or in our multi-program chips - either one will get the best performance results, it's just a matter of which type of device you prefer - the hand-held tuner is the easiest to use, and what most people go with.
You should also drop by our web site at www.TroyerPerformance.com and look over the exhaust systems we list for these trucks. We do a lot of testing, and use only systems that do not cause a loss in lower rpm torque - losing lower rpm torque is so common with the vast majority of exhaust systems on the market for these trucks, so you have to be careful there. You can gain higher rpm horsepower but still actually lose torque down low with the wrong exhaust manufacturer - and thus hurt driveability and lower fuel mileage.
Here's a link to our web site for info on our custom tuning - you can go with either our multi-program chips or the hand-held tuner. This specific link will take you to what most people here use, our custom 3-program hand-held tuner that has email update capability: http://www.troyerperformance.com/cgi...catalogno=9300
One of the nicest things about F-150 Online is that there is so much information here you can read - just spend some time reading what other fellow F-150 owners have done to their trucks, and how they feel about our tuning, etc - there are many of those posts right here in this section to read over, plenty of great info straight from other vehicle owners like yourself.
I hope this very brief info helps a bit, & please also feel free to give us a call at our number listed below to go over any of this in more detail, such as power gains for your specific truck from our custom tuning, which exhaust system will do the best job, and answer any other performance-related questions you may have about your F-150, etc - we're happy to help.
Welcome to F-150 Online!
All the info you could possibly want is already posted here, all you need to do is spend some time reading it, basically.
Learn to make use of the excellent SEARCH feature here (the icon to access it is in the upper right portion of your screen here) to retrieve & read posts on any specific topic you want. Virtually anything you can think to ask has already been covered many hundreds, if not literally thousands of times before here, so you can easily look it up and read all the info very quickly.
Everyone one who comes here wants to know the same basic information - what's the best way to go for more performance? So there are plenty of those kinds of posts to read. This section is packed with posts with reviews & results from fellow F-150 Online members who go with our custom tuning, for example - we've specialized in performance tuning the F-150 longer than anyone else, many F-150 owners come to us for their tuning & other performance needs.
Regarding tuning, what will get you the best results is our *custom* tuning (even for a bone-stock vehicle), which we can deliver in either a hand-held tuner to flash the PCM, or in our multi-program chips - either one will get the best performance results, it's just a matter of which type of device you prefer - the hand-held tuner is the easiest to use, and what most people go with.
You should also drop by our web site at www.TroyerPerformance.com and look over the exhaust systems we list for these trucks. We do a lot of testing, and use only systems that do not cause a loss in lower rpm torque - losing lower rpm torque is so common with the vast majority of exhaust systems on the market for these trucks, so you have to be careful there. You can gain higher rpm horsepower but still actually lose torque down low with the wrong exhaust manufacturer - and thus hurt driveability and lower fuel mileage.
Here's a link to our web site for info on our custom tuning - you can go with either our multi-program chips or the hand-held tuner. This specific link will take you to what most people here use, our custom 3-program hand-held tuner that has email update capability: http://www.troyerperformance.com/cgi...catalogno=9300
One of the nicest things about F-150 Online is that there is so much information here you can read - just spend some time reading what other fellow F-150 owners have done to their trucks, and how they feel about our tuning, etc - there are many of those posts right here in this section to read over, plenty of great info straight from other vehicle owners like yourself.
I hope this very brief info helps a bit, & please also feel free to give us a call at our number listed below to go over any of this in more detail, such as power gains for your specific truck from our custom tuning, which exhaust system will do the best job, and answer any other performance-related questions you may have about your F-150, etc - we're happy to help.
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Joined: Sep 2001
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I bought the SuperChips handheld for my '01 SCrew. I was rather disappointed with it. It firmed up my shifting but that was about it. The tire size seems to have failed as I enter the exact tire height and it went from reading to slow to reading way to fast.
It was a while ago when I purchased this and I'm not sure if they made any advancements in custom tuning. However I purchased a program from pcmforless for my Chevy and the improvement was noticed 10 times more then the superchips program changed my ford.
I would suggest something more along the lines of a custom tune then a handheld. I read from too many sources that state a handheld can only change "so much". Translating to "not enough". But maybe that's just for Chevy???
For clarification I bought my SuperChips handheld from Troyer Performance. Not to knock Mike or anyone else, I love that company but I was very disappointed with my handheld and even more so after I tuned another vehicle that showed such great improvement and for a mer $250. So of course it makes me sick to my stomache when I remember how much I paid for the SuperChips handheld.
It was a while ago when I purchased this and I'm not sure if they made any advancements in custom tuning. However I purchased a program from pcmforless for my Chevy and the improvement was noticed 10 times more then the superchips program changed my ford.
I would suggest something more along the lines of a custom tune then a handheld. I read from too many sources that state a handheld can only change "so much". Translating to "not enough". But maybe that's just for Chevy???
For clarification I bought my SuperChips handheld from Troyer Performance. Not to knock Mike or anyone else, I love that company but I was very disappointed with my handheld and even more so after I tuned another vehicle that showed such great improvement and for a mer $250. So of course it makes me sick to my stomache when I remember how much I paid for the SuperChips handheld.
Last edited by jemlay; Apr 5, 2005 at 08:05 PM.