there was one for 500hp and 100 mpg so i put it on my big wheel its awsome im running low 12's but tyco pulled my waranty

 

Thank you for explaining it. Saved me all that damn typing. Its amazing how people just don't get it. I'm sick of this thread. Its mind numbing to say the least.

 

wait i cant tell if your joking about your 1/4 mile or not... lol

 

you guys can say what you want and make fun if you want but you have never had one so how would you know? its like saying that turbo chargers cannot be put on the 4.2L and then you have a few people say they have one on theirs, so you make fun of them and tell them its not going to work. but have you tried it? NO. just gotta type what you THINK will happen. when some of us have actually had these things. when i got mine i was 17 and working at mcdonalds at $5.35/hr. think i could afford a cold air intake or a tuner? no but a little $10 resistor was in my price range so i got it and it worked. NO you wont get what they post with the 75hp and 100mpg. back when they were more realistic in their figures they just advertised 8hp and 10hp maybe 15 or 20 and a few mpg. they do work. they are only $20 so why dont you all buy one and see for yourself that they work? try it on your beater car or something. then all you people making fun and saying it wont work wont have anything to type. i think it would just be 5 pages of apologys or people saying "hey it worked!"

 

I really hope you are not holding your breath. There have been guys that tried it, they did not work. If I was not so lazy, I would do the search and find them. Just is not worth it.

 

i love this site sometimes...most of you argue until you are blue in the teeth that something wont work and argue that it wont work to somebody that has done it and guess what? it worked.....but thats not good enough is it? i live in pennsylvania and we get temps from around -5 to 100 at the extremes and i had that resistor in thru a whole year, racing around, driving normal, racing friends cars, etc with no ill effect that can be traced back to the resistor. now i will just wait for all of you to tell me how it wont work....since you guys all know

 

to be honest, if i had a question about tuners or transmissions or just general knowledge questions, i would trust what most of you say. even if i didnt, i would wait until a bunch of you posted an answer and see what is the majority vote. but with stuff that ALL OF YOU personally have not tried but only say what you have heard. i admit i have done it on here to. but the info i post is from reliable sources of people i know have done what they say they have. if bluejay or anyone from PHP or troyer said they DID it and it didnt work, then im not gonna sit here and say they are lying. but when its say bluejay's friend jimbob who said he did it, i dont know if jimbob can tie his shoe without singing the bunny ear song or not....
lol bluejay i have had a lot of good advise from you... i am convinced you can tie your shoes
just my personal experience, i bought one, it worked fine for about a year and i traded in the car when i found my trans am. no bad effects that i can pin on the resistor, end of story.

 

Let me simplify it for you. Your F150 engine requires the output from the MAF sensor to correctly control your Air to Fuel ratio. The computer is programmed to safely deliver the correct amount of fuel for the air it has measured. By adding this resistor you are lying to the computer and removing that critical data. The consequences of this could be very serious. Just because you got lucky with your 89 Firebird does not mean you should recommend it as a valid modification. If it really was beneficial to your engine Ford would have changed the resistance of the MAF filament themselves or edited the computer air:fuel tables to get better performance and sell more vehicles.
Believe what you want. It is your truck and you pay for it. Burnt valves and cats are just two of the potential problems that can occur by using this device. There are many people here with much more experience and knowledge than you and you should learn from them.

 

So you had no ill effects. Show us evidence of the mileage gains and the dyno runs showing the power increase. Some of us have a good working knowledge of the programming parameters that go into the PCM. There's no doubt some of the factory programming is conservative, that a device like that could fool the PCM into doing something it is otherwise programmed to do. However, its nothing a good tuner can't change in a base tune. Buying a product that alters the reading of one of the critical components in fuel and spark management is just stupid, IMO. Enough said. Your money, your choice.

 

Ah! I can't believe I missed this gem yesterday!

I'd love to see this kid "test" the resistor, except there will be zero empirical data since he doesn't have enough money to put his truck on a dyno.

If that doesn't give you cause not to use this product, then you totally deserve to try it out yourself.

- NCSU

 

Haters

 

fo sho

 

But a company that out and out lies about the performance gains of their product surely wouldn't lie about it being safe for your vehicle would they?

 

Brilliant. Why do some people resort to childish name calling when they can't come up with an intelligent response?

Nobody is hating anyone. We are just trying to help a young kid avoid damaging his truck with a hack mod that will also void his engine warranty. Do you have proof of your results to show us all?

 

Exactly. Their profit margin is sky high on this part. If you buy resistors bulk they are pennies a piece and they are selling them for big bucks to naive people that don't know any better. Even if someone held them responsible for the damage they make enough to write them a check for the repairs.