Well I picked up an intake off of an 08 Shelby today, along with a FRPP strut tower brace for 200 bucks. Am I going to have to get a tune for the intake? The elbow is the same but its just the open oiled filter. I planned to get a tune but not right this moment. If I run it will it be too lean? I was reading and the CEL will come on if it is too lean but i just want to be sure. Did i make out alright buying the two for 200?
FRPP Intake
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You should be fine without a tune. Yes, there is the possibility that it may run a touch leaner than perfect, but I don't forsee you having any problems. Most people don't typically get a tune until after both, intake and exhaust. The CEL only works during closed loop. You will not trigger the light at WOT as you are in open loop.
I would not reccomend it from my personal experience of running my intake with out a tune "accidentally"... Ford reflashed my computer and I still had my intake on and I basically had to bog the whole way home while going into fail safe mode...
I dont know how your intake will be without a tune but mine did not run good at all...
I dont know how your intake will be without a tune but mine did not run good at all...
C&L Racer intake.. I believe it is a 95mm elbow... My car literally would not drive it would bog down and stall... I got stuck on a couple hills and had to keep trying to reflash my car but my pcm name was change...
Not a happy experience I seriously would not reccomend it... You may not have problems because you inlet is not as big but I dont know....
Not a happy experience I seriously would not reccomend it... You may not have problems because you inlet is not as big but I dont know....
The statement above is incorrect... The programers become married to your car when you load a tune on the car... It is a piggy back tuner basically... It takes your stock tune stores it and replaces i with the aftermarket one... When the tuner is married to a car it cannot be used on another car... That is why when you see someone selling a cheap SCT for way below cost it is most likely it was on a car that was totalled... You would then have to send out the Programmer too SCT and have then kinda reformat it and and more "marriages"... Each tuner comes with I believe 4-5 marriages meaning it can only be used on 4-5 cars max... Once you exceed the limit you have to pay SCT to add more...
A tuner does not go by "VIN" it goes by you PCM Calibration or Strategy... Our cars are basically the same all in all... Autos have different Strategys from the standards and different years have different ones also from my understanding...
Sorry if I make no sense.. It is sunny and hott in my house and I am ready to shoot someone because I dont have my car back... :smash:
All in all... Make sure you buy a UNMARRIED tuner that still is programmable... Get a SCTX3 Great tuner I have 2 will be selling one soon... lol
Good luck and if you have anymore questions let me know... Seriously thought SCT and order $50 race tune from Bama... Gas is not going down its creeping up have some fun while its cheaper... lol
-Joe
A tuner does not go by "VIN" it goes by you PCM Calibration or Strategy... Our cars are basically the same all in all... Autos have different Strategys from the standards and different years have different ones also from my understanding...
Sorry if I make no sense.. It is sunny and hott in my house and I am ready to shoot someone because I dont have my car back... :smash:
All in all... Make sure you buy a UNMARRIED tuner that still is programmable... Get a SCTX3 Great tuner I have 2 will be selling one soon... lol
Good luck and if you have anymore questions let me know... Seriously thought SCT and order $50 race tune from Bama... Gas is not going down its creeping up have some fun while its cheaper... lol
-Joe
The statement above is incorrect... The programers become married to your car when you load a tune on the car... It is a piggy back tuner basically... It takes your stock tune stores it and replaces i with the aftermarket one... When the tuner is married to a car it cannot be used on another car... That is why when you see someone selling a cheap SCT for way below cost it is most likely it was on a car that was totalled... You would then have to send out the Programmer too SCT and have then kinda reformat it and and more "marriages"... Each tuner comes with I believe 4-5 marriages meaning it can only be used on 4-5 cars max... Once you exceed the limit you have to pay SCT to add more...
A tuner does not go by "VIN" it goes by you PCM Calibration or Strategy... Our cars are basically the same all in all... Autos have different Strategys from the standards and different years have different ones also from my understanding...
Sorry if I make no sense.. It is sunny and hott in my house and I am ready to shoot someone because I dont have my car back... :smash:
All in all... Make sure you buy a UNMARRIED tuner that still is programmable... Get a SCTX3 Great tuner I have 2 will be selling one soon... lol
Good luck and if you have anymore questions let me know... Seriously thought SCT and order $50 race tune from Bama... Gas is not going down its creeping up have some fun while its cheaper... lol
-Joe
A tuner does not go by "VIN" it goes by you PCM Calibration or Strategy... Our cars are basically the same all in all... Autos have different Strategys from the standards and different years have different ones also from my understanding...
Sorry if I make no sense.. It is sunny and hott in my house and I am ready to shoot someone because I dont have my car back... :smash:
All in all... Make sure you buy a UNMARRIED tuner that still is programmable... Get a SCTX3 Great tuner I have 2 will be selling one soon... lol
Good luck and if you have anymore questions let me know... Seriously thought SCT and order $50 race tune from Bama... Gas is not going down its creeping up have some fun while its cheaper... lol
-Joe
In the meantime I put the stock intake back on, ran it, then found out the correct way to mount the FRPP intake(I have a part that probably should have stayed with that guys car
And took it out. Ran real good, tiniest little low end bog at real low RPM's but clears right out, and actually it dissapeared as I drove it a bit. Defenitly alot quicker and cant imagine how well it will run with a good tune. Of course though the wife drove it and the CEL popped on. Seems fine but im going to double check with the OBDII Scanner to be confident. Cant beat the sound of a CAI though!
I have a C&L racer that I am going to be putting on soon as I get a programmer. I was told by a dyno shop not to put the intake on until I got the car programmed. I guess that could be because when I asked them I told them I was installing my L/T headers and I shouldn't run both the intake and headers without a tune. Joe let me know what your going to want for one of your programmers so I can get some $ together.