mild or wild superchip
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Hi Dissonance,
There is no such thing as a "mild" or a "wild" Superchip for an F-150.
I think you have a very basic misunderstanding, and probably took that phrase from one of my other posts on another topic to mean something else. In that other post of mine, I used that phrase to describe that we can, thru a number of different modifications, take the performance of any of these vehicles up to just about any level desired by it's owner, ranging literally from from mild to wild. That isn't done with just a Superchip, obviously.
When we're talking about an F-150, or just about any other stock to lightly modified and naturally aspirated engine (meaning, it's not supercharged or turbocharged), there are limits to what can be done, certainly with regard to how much power can be added.
The amount of power that can be added via powertrain programming in an F-150 is limited by a number of things, by far the most important of which is fuel quality & octane level. For all practical purposes, what we're talking about doing with the Superchip is adding power by retuning the engine specifically for the use of pump premium gasoline, which ranges in octane from a low of 91 to a high of 94, excluding exotic ultra-high octane raving gasolines, which is why I used the term "pump premium," the premium gasolines that are readily available at just about any pump. This gets about a 10% or so power gain in these engines, which were tuned originally from the factory for 87 octane.
Unless we have *substantial* mechanical modifications that we can tune for, or, the owner uses ultra-high octane unleaded racing gasoline, typically 98-110 octane (which we have done for some F-150's in the 2-program Flip Chip, setting up what we call a "drag race" program on Side 2), that is the limit of the additional raw power gain that can be made just from powertrain programming.
There is no such thing as a "mild" or a "wild" Superchip for an F-150.
I think you have a very basic misunderstanding, and probably took that phrase from one of my other posts on another topic to mean something else. In that other post of mine, I used that phrase to describe that we can, thru a number of different modifications, take the performance of any of these vehicles up to just about any level desired by it's owner, ranging literally from from mild to wild. That isn't done with just a Superchip, obviously.
When we're talking about an F-150, or just about any other stock to lightly modified and naturally aspirated engine (meaning, it's not supercharged or turbocharged), there are limits to what can be done, certainly with regard to how much power can be added.
The amount of power that can be added via powertrain programming in an F-150 is limited by a number of things, by far the most important of which is fuel quality & octane level. For all practical purposes, what we're talking about doing with the Superchip is adding power by retuning the engine specifically for the use of pump premium gasoline, which ranges in octane from a low of 91 to a high of 94, excluding exotic ultra-high octane raving gasolines, which is why I used the term "pump premium," the premium gasolines that are readily available at just about any pump. This gets about a 10% or so power gain in these engines, which were tuned originally from the factory for 87 octane.
Unless we have *substantial* mechanical modifications that we can tune for, or, the owner uses ultra-high octane unleaded racing gasoline, typically 98-110 octane (which we have done for some F-150's in the 2-program Flip Chip, setting up what we call a "drag race" program on Side 2), that is the limit of the additional raw power gain that can be made just from powertrain programming.