AS I said back on page one,
THERE ARE ADJUSTABLE REG'S AVAILABLE TO USE WITH OUR STOCK FUEL RAILS.
Terry (the owner of SFPH) has had one available for many years.


Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator and Gauge Kit


This Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator and Gauge Kit is needed to adjust extra fuel pressure when using the Upper & Lower Pulleys, that generate between 13 to 15 pounds of boost pressure, along with the reprogramming of either our Performance Chip or the Performance Flip Chips we offer. You can safely adjust the fuel pressure, upwards from 40 lbs. static to 42 lbs. to help eliminate knock retard that will be present with the modification packages we recommend!
APPLICATIONS: 1999-current Ford Lightning
PRICE:
Adjustable Fuel Pressure
Regulator & Gauge Kit $195.00 shipped

 

LightningGuy....Do you spend any time actually racing, and hanging out with Lightning owners, or do you just sit on the computer and bash people?

I do not have the luxury of time to spend working on my vehicles. (I did do a lift on my jeep by myself) I work for the Dept of Defense, on Navy ships that are forward deployed to war zones, defending snivling little pukes like you, so you have the "right to be free" I have my feet on US soil for MAYBE two or three months a year. At that time, I would rather be pleasuring my girlfriend, out in my boat, or driving my Lightning, instead of underneath it.

I have pulled my blower myself, and done some other work on it. I am more than capable. I work on 30,000+ hp diesel engines and 900psi/900deg F super heated steam plants. Its not that I don't know how to work on a truck.

As for buying a roush. Again, F'k off pal. I have been haning out with Lightning guys since day one of the gen II (I was only in high school when the gen I's were aroud). I have been hanging out with tuners since day one. I have been going to FFW's and other L events since day one. Don't tell me what to drive, you F'ng maggot!

 

I split the off topic crap started by Jim Jr to its own thread ...

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...hreadid=167833

Doug

 

hahaha, he got OWNED!!!

 

You should change that sig. You have absolutely no class at all. I understand your predicament as far as your employment and lack of time, but why would you come off bashing those who would choose to find alternative, cheaper, and perhaps better ways to achieve the same end result as you spending a couple of hundred more on a product? Seems pretty close-minded to me. And if you did indeed attend these FFW events, hang out with tuners, and interact with fellow Lightning enthusiasts, then you would understand that our entire hobby is rooted in creative engineering. I fail to see how you can praise JDM and other vendors for coming up with new mods, or retrofitting existing products to our trucks, and then turn around and criticize your fellow Lightning owner and consumer for attempting to do the same thing?

I just recently purchased my Lightning but have not had a chance to attend any events thus far. However, I hope your attitude and demeanor here does not reflect that of the entire community.

Rob_02Lightning,

Great post! Can you throw us a link to that particular item?

 

I'm sorry that you rubbed Aaron the wrong way because you now have a bad impression of him. If you were to meet him at an event and start talking with him, and he then told you who he was, you would be doing your best porky pig impersonation.

Gotta love the boards. I've met plenty of guys on here that i didn't agree or get along with, but when you meet someone in person and hang out, and then find out who they are, it all becomes a big joke and you laugh about it.

 

First off...if you read back....I said "thats cool, its just not for everyone." INfact, I think its great when people come up with thier own mods. But when a tuner spends his time and money thinking of, and making a part, for OUR benifit, I am greatfull. LIke I said, I just don't have the time to make my own stuff. I actually wanted to make a stainless tank with cooling coils, sort of like a secondary heat exchanger in place of our intercooler fill tank...I just haven't got around to it, and need a little practice with the stainless welding. But don't bitch about the price a tuner asks when he spends his time and money on something. I am sorry if I came off like I have "No Class" but it burns me when all these noobs come on here and talk trash and jump on the tuner bashing band wagon. As for creative engineering...feel free to take a look at my truck some time...I have a few "creative" mods, that allow my truck to run very well for the relatively low boost that I am running!

As for my demeanor and attitude...well, even if we are duking it out here, as Mecca said, thats not the case at the track. I will be the first one to offer you a drink or help you change tires (unless, Don's Bolt beats me to it!) I think you will find no more hospitable crowd than the people that drive these trucks. Maybe you should spend a little more time at these events. My truck has raced in South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and New Hampshire. I have hit car shows from Toronto to south Florida, and enjoyed talking to L owners at every one!

 

JimJR and SVT_KY,

Back in the good ole days before you even bought your lightning Cliff, and you JimJR had a drivers license Im talking 1999, I wanted more fuel to get to my injectors. So I spent some time searching for someone to make me fuel rails which didnt work out too good. So I went back to previous years of 5.4 engines that had a removable fuel pressure regulator on the fuel rail and I found it. The problem was that the holes in the fuel rails that feeds the injectors was a little bit smaller than the stock lightning fuel rails. The tube diameter was the same. So I modified the wholes and now I have an adjustable fuel pressure regulator along with a set of fuel rails that work. So you take the price of the fuel rails about $140. Now you take the price of the regulator $110. Then you spend an hour modifing 8 holes in the fuel rail. Say shop labor is at $75 an hour. So now you have $325 I believe we sell them for $389. So now its shipped out the door to the customer. The customer recieves them goes to install them calls the shop and spends an hour on the phone with one of our sales guys to make sure they were installed right, figure out how to adjust the fuel pressure regulator, and then the final step to make sure he gets maximum benifit from the fuel pressure regulator so when all is said and done some systems I send out I lose money on and some I send out I make no more than $60 on. When it comes down to the end I probably break even. you have to understand we need to make money on parts to keep the lights on, the phones on for people to get there questions answered, and it seems as though this offends you but when you walk into Mcdonalds do you demand your Big Mac for cost.

Jim@JDM

 

You'd pay someone $75 a hour to drill holes? I think you have bigger problems then trying in vane like everyone else to make a Junior comment about me, if your paying someone $75 a hour to drill holes.

 

Jim,

Do the holes need to be enlarged? Have you tried using just the stock F-150 rails without modifying them?

 

Lightningguy,

To be honest with you I didnt want to take the chance. Ive never tried it with the smaller holes. I did find another part number out there that will also work. If you want send my son an email and Ill give you the part number. Tech@teamjdm.com

Jim

 

Shop labor rate is a set amount which is based off your overhead, that you have to charge per hour to be profitable. So it really doesn't matter what you are doing, every job must be billed out off that price for every hour your tech or fabricators are working. That's just the way it is. So if the guys spent an hour drilling holes, or building parts for the freaking space shuttle, that customer is charged 75 dollars for everyhour that is spent.

So if Jim's guys are spending 45 minutes to an hour modifying the fuel rails and fpr's, that has to be figured into the costs. Now if you had a bunch of koreans, or mexicans or what ever sweat shop works doing just this all day in mass productions, i'm sure the price would be cheaper.

In all honesty i think these tuners we deal with are very generous with their time. I can remember when my father blew his first truck's motor, we spent a good 45 minutes on the phone with Jim discussing our options. You know what, he ended up trading in the truck for another one and didn't end up going with the built motor. So Jim made squat for the 45 minutes he spent talking with us. However, most of my mods are from JDM and I drove all the way down there to custom tune my truck. All my old man's mods and tunes are from JDM, so he makes up for it on the other hand.

Call a few local shops around here and start asking questions. All you get is........oh, i don't know, bring it in and drop if off, we'll look at it.

So to make a long story short.........it's not as simple as charing 75 bucks for drilling out holes.

 

Whip,
Sounds like you're a MM or and EN?(Not sure if they even have the EN rate anymore, I know they combined the BT & MM). Thanks for serving! I know being deployed sucks and no one that hasn't served could ever understand all the sacrifices you have to endure but hang in there it will pay off in the end.
Sincerely,
Bryan

former MM2 (SS). USS Charleston LKA-113, USS Memphis SSN-691