Hey guys.....I have a 2000 F-150 ext. cab XLT. I have a used lightning engine and tranny dropout that i am about to put in it...I have looked around a little, but i was hoping someone has had some experience with chipping and tuning their lightning engine for more hp. If so, what would you recommend? It will mainly be a daily driver....i will run it at the 1/8 a couple times..maybe. But if you have any info on a chip/tuning or anything else combp...let me know what you think would be better for street power upgrades.....Oh yea...i will be putting headers on it along with some high flow magnaflows!:santa:

 

Get a 6lb lower pulley, long tube headers with your magnaflow cats, a cai, and top it off with a Mike Troyer tune.

 

Where do i get a Mike Troyer tune...never heard of it?

 

He is the big guy that is in these forums every now and then. www.troyerperformance.com Call him up and he will help you out. Hes the best of the best when it comes to tuning.

 

Hi Wolf302,

We are who "Built54" very kindly mentioned in his post - just give us a call at our number listed below & we can take care of this for you.

We have tuned many F-150's that have had Lightning or Harley supercharger setups installed on them, so this is something that is relatively common. Now in this case, I would not recommend installing a 6# lower pulley, that is a little bit too much boost on that higher-compression engine with those thin hypereutectic cast stock pistons - see, the Lightnings have forged pistons and a significantly lower compression ratio from the factory, so they can run more boost - but that's not a problem, we can advise you on all of that and tune it so that it will run correctly, etc., no problem.

Just give us a call and we'll be happy to help you with this, OK?

Thanks for your post, & good luck!