What's All This Crap About Tuning??
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From: Santa Barbara,Ca.
Originally Posted by Rob_99Lightning
Happy New Year to you my Lightning Brother 
Health Wealth and Happiness to You and the Family
I see Sal explained it already but to answer your other question no you actually do it with the car off. You simply open the Drivers Door bend down and plug the XCal2 into the Aux Port (the xcal has a cable attached to it)
You then press s few buttons it will ask you to turn the key on (not start), you wait @1 minute while it does it's thing, then BAM your done. You then shut off the key and put the XCal in a safe spot (you can also use it as a Code Reader and to shut the Check Engine Light off if it throws a Code)
Happy New Year!!!
Health Wealth and Happiness to You and the Family
I see Sal explained it already but to answer your other question no you actually do it with the car off. You simply open the Drivers Door bend down and plug the XCal2 into the Aux Port (the xcal has a cable attached to it)
You then press s few buttons it will ask you to turn the key on (not start), you wait @1 minute while it does it's thing, then BAM your done. You then shut off the key and put the XCal in a safe spot (you can also use it as a Code Reader and to shut the Check Engine Light off if it throws a Code)
Happy New Year!!!
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get it off my chest!
Mike
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From: Spring Texas
Originally Posted by Fast Gator
Back on track to the orginal question
The chips were having communication issues with the cpu from oxidation and coming loose. With the hand-held tuners those problems were eliminated.
You just plug into the OBD port and load the tunes, very easy.
Btw.... a turbo 4x4 would be a sweet trick ride
The chips were having communication issues with the cpu from oxidation and coming loose. With the hand-held tuners those problems were eliminated.
You just plug into the OBD port and load the tunes, very easy.
Btw.... a turbo 4x4 would be a sweet trick ride
So the tuner just adjusts the cpu's program? If I add something to my engine today and tune it, then add something tomorrow..just tune it again? The tuner itself never needs to be updated?
Thanks
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Originally Posted by badscooter
This is all new to me to ..I'd thought I'd learn about tuning by just reading what you guys had to say but I'm still
So the tuner just adjusts the cpu's program? If I add something to my engine today and tune it, then add something tomorrow..just tune it again? The tuner itself never needs to be updated?
Thanks
So the tuner just adjusts the cpu's program? If I add something to my engine today and tune it, then add something tomorrow..just tune it again? The tuner itself never needs to be updated?
Thanks
Mike
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From: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/ LIGHTNING FAST
Please Name The State The Tuner Is From I Figure The Rest
[QUOTE=IBR8K4VETTS]Unless you get your tune from the place I got my a xcal2 from... I pressed a few buttons and BAM, my truck dose not run anymore so I call the tuner and was told they would send a new tune... A month go's by nothing, so I call again and another month go's by and still nothing. So I send it back to the tuner and I get a call from the tuner asking what I want them to do with it! I was so mad I told them to do whatever they wanted with it, haven't heard from them in three month. Guess I'm out a xcal2
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get it off my chest!
Mike[/QUOTE
Someone said rob was good on the computer if i was close i get rob to run it off for me.
Give me a hint so i won't make the same mistake thanks
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get it off my chest!
Mike[/QUOTE
Someone said rob was good on the computer if i was close i get rob to run it off for me.
Give me a hint so i won't make the same mistake thanks
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From: Surrey, England
Originally Posted by Sharpshooter
+1
When I was at FFW in Atlanta last yeay there was a styleside F-150 running in the TT class.
It wasn't a Lightning, but it was one bad a$$ truck. Some of you may know the guy, I have a horrible memory so I can't remember his name. The truck was burgandy and he was hanging out with the JDM crew.
When I was at FFW in Atlanta last yeay there was a styleside F-150 running in the TT class.
It wasn't a Lightning, but it was one bad a$$ truck. Some of you may know the guy, I have a horrible memory so I can't remember his name. The truck was burgandy and he was hanging out with the JDM crew.
Photo taken at JDM in October 2005
I think it has a 32 valve motor - non charged.
Very well put together and the exhaust exits are real good
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And Another Thing Why Won't Tuners Answer Thier Phone ???
You would think tuners would answer thier phones i thing they would sell more. Mabey they have all the business they want Oh' well somebody will sell me an xcal2 mabey??? 
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wow.. i guess i shouldnt post in here since i chose the lighting style over the HD style.. ill get my head bitten off and told i woulda been better off buying an L 
2 reasons i didnt buy an L..
1 insurance.. when i got this truck i was 18.
2 i have more fun building it then just buying it off the lot.
ive got respect for guys that got an L.. but when they start bashing you about your truck is less than theirs and since it looks like an L that your plainly trying to copy or be like them. it just brings down the integrety of the ford community. im not saying all L owners do this.. but if you read this thread im sure u can get a good idea who it is.
if you wanna buy it... buy it.. if you wanna build it.. build it..
im just happy you bought Ford
2 reasons i didnt buy an L..
1 insurance.. when i got this truck i was 18.
2 i have more fun building it then just buying it off the lot.
ive got respect for guys that got an L.. but when they start bashing you about your truck is less than theirs and since it looks like an L that your plainly trying to copy or be like them. it just brings down the integrety of the ford community. im not saying all L owners do this.. but if you read this thread im sure u can get a good idea who it is.
if you wanna buy it... buy it.. if you wanna build it.. build it..
im just happy you bought Ford
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From: Spring Texas
Originally Posted by IBR8K4VETTS
Yes, Unlike a chip that you have to send back to be changed, with a programmer they just send a program in a email and you download and in stall in you truck.
Mike
Mike
Thanks Mike
I'll be shopping for one soon as I decide on an exhaust. Volant CAI is on the way to me now. Thanks again.
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From: HOMELESS
Originally Posted by tlfwatch
You would think tuners would answer thier phones i thing they would sell more. Mabey they have all the business they want Oh' well somebody will sell me an xcal2 mabey???
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From: Eddyville, Ky
Originally Posted by pitstain
You deserve the best service bud you should go www.rpmoutlet.com and order from their website they ship super fast......
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From: Botswana
Originally Posted by Neal
HI!... Because some us like to build our fast trucks, not buy them. I could of bought a Lightning too. What's the fun in that? I have more fun building and fabricating my own parts. I'm N/A and have not lost to a LIGHTNING in my area yet. The look on their faces when I pop my hood and show them I'm N/A is PRICELESS.....Sure a severely modded Lightning would kick my nutt. But Hey, I'm N/A vs. a SC'ed truck. Let me install my TURBO set-up and it will be a different story. My N/A 5.4 went 13.60E.T on 7 cylinders. Found out later that I broke a compression ring in #5, bad engine builder. So I would of gone low 13's no problem on all 8 cylinders. Now the truck is 400-450LBS lighter. So 12's shouldn't be a problem in the spring. Not too many "REGULAR" F-150's running around in the 12's *N/A*.
You must have some slow *** Lightnings in your area.
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Originally Posted by 1fast4.6
wow.. i guess i shouldnt post in here since i chose the lighting style over the HD style.. ill get my head bitten off and told i woulda been better off buying an L
2 reasons i didnt buy an L..
1 insurance.. when i got this truck i was 18.
2 i have more fun building it then just buying it off the lot.
ive got respect for guys that got an L.. but when they start bashing you about your truck is less than theirs and since it looks like an L that your plainly trying to copy or be like them. it just brings down the integrety of the ford community. im not saying all L owners do this.. but if you read this thread im sure u can get a good idea who it is.
if you wanna buy it... buy it.. if you wanna build it.. build it..
im just happy you bought Ford
2 reasons i didnt buy an L..
1 insurance.. when i got this truck i was 18.
2 i have more fun building it then just buying it off the lot.
ive got respect for guys that got an L.. but when they start bashing you about your truck is less than theirs and since it looks like an L that your plainly trying to copy or be like them. it just brings down the integrety of the ford community. im not saying all L owners do this.. but if you read this thread im sure u can get a good idea who it is.
if you wanna buy it... buy it.. if you wanna build it.. build it..
im just happy you bought Ford
The rest of the crap you posted was all just to make you feel better about not owning a Lightning.
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From: Botswana
Originally Posted by Sharpshooter
+1
When I was at FFW in Atlanta last yeay there was a styleside F-150 running in the TT class.
It wasn't a Lightning, but it was one bad a$$ truck. Some of you may know the guy, I have a horrible memory so I can't remember his name. The truck was burgandy and he was hanging out with the JDM crew.
When I was at FFW in Atlanta last yeay there was a styleside F-150 running in the TT class.
It wasn't a Lightning, but it was one bad a$$ truck. Some of you may know the guy, I have a horrible memory so I can't remember his name. The truck was burgandy and he was hanging out with the JDM crew.
