I'm very curious about tuning and all. If a tuner offers a custom tune, an economy setting, will this tune still improve the overall driveability of the truck? I've read great things about all sorts of different custom tuners and how their tunes correct lots of the not so great driveablity quirks Ford designed in. But will these fixes be present in an economy tune?

I drive 120 miles a day commuting and choose to do this in my truck. If an economy type tune might help me save a few dollars at the pump and fix the hesitation and all in my truck, that would be great.

My interest is only if this will fix things, not who's offering the best tunes or who's tunes can be obtained quicker, etc. We've already got boat loads of threads on those topics.

Thanks in advance

 

Give Troyer a call, I know he offers an economy tune and let him know your interests. I know he can help. Ive heard of people here talking to him for 2 hrs on the phone asking questions. Hell call all the tuners your interested in and see who answers all your questions. Good luck.

 

the fuel economy tune is defintely an improvement over stock-less hp ,tq than say a performance tune-phil

 

X2 - call 'em all ... that'll do it. The one that requires you to sit down is the one you want to go with. Have a pencil & paper handy, something to drink, and perhaps some snacks.


MGD

 

Hell just sit on the bowl with some beers and a list of your questions

 

LMAO !

 

Something that I have noticed over the years.

Economy tunes are usually tunes that will use 87 pump gas, and on autos will adjust the shift points to keep the RPM's down.

Now a performance tune will make the most of what is available in the motor, on the tranny side it will firm up the shifting.

Lets see if this makes sense. If I can tune the truck so that the motor produces the most hp/tq it can safely, which would also be considered making the motor run as efficient as possible would that not be considered an economy tune????

If you are looking to get the best MPG out of something would it not make sense that it has to be as efficient as possible? So in theory, and I have tried this myself any tune that is toned down in an effort to make the car more "economic" will acctually get LESS MPG. So in the slush box truck world, an economic tune would be a tune that runs 87, gets every last drop of power out of the motor, and has an easy shifting tranny.

You really need to look no further than Honda to see this. Their Civic gets 36mpg on the freeway. It has a 140hp 1.8l motor that produces 77hp per liter...pretty efficient. Ford F-150 gets maybe 20 or so MPG with a 5.4 producing 300hp and only 55hp per liter. I realize different vehicles and weights but still efficiency is the key to MPG and so called "Economy"