Hi Jeff,

You're going to love what the Superchip does for your Lightning. Once you install it and see the power levels, you may or may not feel the need for further mods. It's funny, about 2%-5% of Lightning owners will do everything from gears to nitrous, to torque converters, you name it, but the vast majority of Lightning owners tend to do 2 things; a good chip and a good intake kit.

With regards to ignition mods, they are not big power-adders, so you might want to give that some thought. Ignition mods are not something that you usually pick up significant seat-of-the-pants perfomance gains from; they usually deliver improved throttle response, at best a few more horsepower, and a bit better gas mileage, they just not the typical mods you do for "power gains", is what I'm trying to say.

There are pulleys to increase the boost level, and underdrive pulleys to reduce parasitic losses from turning accessories such as the alternator, etc. You can convert over to electric cooling fans and pick up some power. You can pull off some of the intake & supercharger plumbing and open them up by the usual porting methods or send them out to Extrude-Hone, etc. Or add a set of headers, they work well on the Lightnings.

It all gets down to just how much more performance you feel you need, after installing the Superchip and driving it for awhile. We generally advise waiting a month after installing the Superchip to do other mods, just so you have a really good feel for exactly what the Superchip did for you, to help you decide if you need more performance or not. Short of nitrous, it's by far the single best power-gainer you can install on this truck in terms of bang-for-the-buck, and who knows, you may find that you have plenty of performance once it's installed. The Superchip adds a minimum of 40+ hp at the flywheel, and the Airaid is worth another 18, so between the 2, you've picked up about 60 horsepower. For most Lightning owners that's plenty, but for others, it's merely the beginning.

Good luck, & have fun!

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
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hey, Mike

How are you doing.


Jeff

Mike does know of what he speaks.

 

Mike, Thanks so much for your help and getting out the chip so fast you run a great business.
When I got home from work today at 6pm I started the install and was up and running at 6:50 pm
You are a 100% right this was very easy and man the power is great, I hopped on it from a stand still and that baby burned rubber from 1st to 2nd.
Now i'm very happy for now with my L

Thanks again Mike I will deffinetly reccomend anyone looking for a chip to you , And I know alot of people I'm in a sales mngr. of a lg. corp.

Thanks, Jeff

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Hello everyone,Just received my super chip today from that guy Mike in Va.He was very helpfull.
Can't wait till i install it tonight when i get home from work.
Then i'm going to test this bad *** white ltng out and see what she does.
I have 2700 miles on it now With the addition to the chip I also installed a airaid on it 2 months ago.
I was wondering what should I do next to it to get those horses up, Should I mess with the ingnition?
Talk to you all later
Thanks, Jeff

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I think the chip takes care of the ingition. Now that you have the Airaid and the Super. For me, the next mod that I added that really did something was the Cobra T/B, $415, or gears are nice, very nice. For a free mod, take off the Airaid front cover. It will help

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Jim
Jim@FordMotor.cc

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