Just has to be a ford dealer to install, not a ford racing dealer!
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Thanks Dude.
My dealer told me to take the car back for a Oil change in 5k miles? True or not?
Just has to be a ford dealer to install, not a ford racing dealer!
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Thanks Dude.
My dealer told me to take the car back for a Oil change in 5k miles? True or not?
Thanks Dude.
My dealer told me to take the car back for a Oil change in 5k miles? True or not?
I just changed mine at about 4k with Amsoil and haven't heard any ticking yet. Will report back if anything changes. What other horror stories have you heard?
Pretty much all seem to be ticking and associated with early oil changes. Its just for my own piece of mine to go ahead and wait it out.
What classifies a car as "properly broken in"....I disagree. I lot of people including myself, changed their oil before 10k miles. I think the engine tick says more about the break in of the car with the original oil, rather than the oil change itself. I don't people's cars where properly broken in before they changed their oil.
What classifies a car as "properly broken in"....
It's all good. I was just asking out of curiousity.Now that I can't answer, but I do know the tick isn't caused just by an early oil change. There's more to it than that. I apologize for chiming in on that topic and hi-jacking the thread. I just didn't want people to automatically assume letting your car go 10k miles without an oil change in fear of the "tick" was an OK thing to do.
Now back to the ProCal, it's a great tune for autos and manuals in opinion. I loved mine on my auto, but I had the dreaded ping. And getting the ping is sort of hit and miss just like the oil change tick. Very frustrating.
I was lucky. My dealer made three passes on the dyno with the stock tune, installed the ProCal tune, made three more dyno runs and only charged me like $120. Awesome deal.
It is so simple to download the tune take a quick ride and decide if they want to turn the octane adjust on or not. Half hour is plenty of time. But many have a minimum shop rate.
Your dealer has a dyno?!
What were your results/#'s before and after?
Peak numbers did not show great gains. We had the "Octane adjust" set to "on" as we heard some pinging on the first pull as it had our crappy winter blend gas in the tank.
Stock the car made 358 rwhp & 355 rwtq. With the ProCal it made 363 rwhp & 356 rwtq.
Mid range torque did improve nicely at 20-30 ft/lbs through most of the rpm band. Horsepower was just about 5-8 rwhp through out most of the rpm range.
Unfortunately my dyno operator didn't scale the graphs the same so they are worthless to lay over one another. My three emails for him to send me the before and after on one graph have been ignored. :facepalm:
But like others, I could feel the improved throttle response, the skip shift deletion was very welcomed and the car was all around more enjoyable to drive. For the $289 I think it was worth it.
I had the same mindset as some of you guys. i wanted a safe tune that would improve drive-ability while maintaining some type of warranty. The ProCal was perfect for me except the engine pinged at 4k RPM under heavy acceleration. I could not keep running this tune, regardless of how non-harmful FRPP said it was. Also I disagree with some of you in regards to the Auto installation. Sure the Procal give the manual a little more oomph, but I could still feel the extra torgue in my auto. It didn't change shift points, but the throttle response was better