check engine light is on
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the silencer is the part of the intake that sticke into the inner fender.getting rid of it is supposed to increase airflow to your filter.unless you are planning a exhaust upgrade wouldnt even bother ,just leave it. you can get more air in but you need to get it out and better flowing as well
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Actually , it's inside the housing between the MAF and TB. Webed piece. It's a little difficult to get out but you can. 
Shoot, you can run a Supercharger with the stock pipes. Check out the SuperCharger Forum.
Shoot, you can run a Supercharger with the stock pipes. Check out the SuperCharger Forum.
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Originally Posted by mrainey889
As far as I know, disconnecting the battery will not cause any station presets to be lost, no matter how long you leave it disconnected, on any Ford newer than say 1997 or so. The older models are certainly different, and would lose their presets without power...at least that is until you get back to the old pull/push to set buttons used on mid-80's and earlier models.
The presets are stored in a type of memory (flash memory...like the jump drives you see everyone carrying these days) that actually physically "writes" the info it is supposed to store. Power is only needed to write to or read from the memory, not for it to stay present. This is true for a variety of vehicle sub-systems.
Mike
The presets are stored in a type of memory (flash memory...like the jump drives you see everyone carrying these days) that actually physically "writes" the info it is supposed to store. Power is only needed to write to or read from the memory, not for it to stay present. This is true for a variety of vehicle sub-systems.
Mike
Hi Mike,
Not so with my 98 - 10 minutes all memory is dumped - maybe my flash is burned out , iduno, I'm glad that it resets in that way, it's like a clean start. What stays is your programed parameter file , it's protected. The temp file which is the live memory file , MIL file. When powers cut it's like zapping your pram in a way. You hook back up your vehicle sets back to default and goes thru a series of fine tunning. Anything outside programed parameter will set MIL. When I couldn't get an engine light with a misfire - reseting often produced one.
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Originally Posted by bullseye670
Well, it took a few days but thanks for the explanation!
LOL - Yeah I was going to come back and comment a couple days ago, then some chit hit the fan over in transmissions - was scrappin for a bit lol. I'll post some pic's of the silencer. -
That's all it is.
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Originally Posted by projectSHO89
Ford uses STATIC memory, not flash for non-volotile memory. Remove the power (it's supplied by a capacitor) and the device resets......
Does the capacitor hold non-volotile memory briefly (any window) before reset?
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Originally Posted by jbrew
Does the capacitor hold non-volotile memory briefly (any window) before reset?
Thanx
A cap is similar in function to a small battery. It stores a bit of energy to be released upon demand (Think of a "kicker" capacitor on an amplified thumper sound system...). How much energy, how long it will hold it, and how long it will keep something 'powered' (i.e., a memory chip) depends on the rating of the capacitor and the draw being applied to it.
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Originally Posted by Steve83
jbrew
What's up with that first pic in post #21? Do you have vaseline all over your camera lens, or did you intentionally blurr out some top-secret details?
What's up with that first pic in post #21? Do you have vaseline all over your camera lens, or did you intentionally blurr out some top-secret details?
Maannn, U don't know the half of it -
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_____!!!!! I'm like , holey ____ ddd ddd don't stop ________ _____ __ ____ all the way , Incredible!!! I was just trying to ZOOM!!I was a very happy -
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Originally Posted by K.C.
Simply stated, yes it will hold the volitile memory.
A cap is similar in function to a small battery. It stores a bit of energy to be released upon demand (Think of a "kicker" capacitor on an amplified thumper sound system...). How much energy, how long it will hold it, and how long it will keep something 'powered' (i.e., a memory chip) depends on the rating of the capacitor and the draw being applied to it.
A cap is similar in function to a small battery. It stores a bit of energy to be released upon demand (Think of a "kicker" capacitor on an amplified thumper sound system...). How much energy, how long it will hold it, and how long it will keep something 'powered' (i.e., a memory chip) depends on the rating of the capacitor and the draw being applied to it.
Thanks K.C. - Yeah it's not much , Steve83 mentioned it was 5 minutes or so. Making sure he's not pullin my leg
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Just curious about the check engine light part of the thread, on many vehicles you can check the codes by jumping a couple of pins with a wire, can that be done on these,
Mines now lit so I'll go by an autozone and have it checked but I was curious if that was still an option or if you have to buy a scanner. On my vette, HD Bike, etc I've always found there is a manual way to get the codes.
Mines now lit so I'll go by an autozone and have it checked but I was curious if that was still an option or if you have to buy a scanner. On my vette, HD Bike, etc I've always found there is a manual way to get the codes.
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Good question? Yes , The procedure is here - copy and paste URL. -
http://fordfuelinjection.com/?p=13
http://fordfuelinjection.com/?p=13
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