Who tuned your SHO?

[SM105K]

Isn't the GH AO tune for 87-94 octane?

Could that be the reason that you have to throw in a few "e's" to get from 93 to 94 octane?

It made sense in my head, but then again, it's a really weird place in there (my head) so I might be way off.

My buddy runs E30 in his AO tune all the time.

 

[SM105K]

I mean to be honest, I followed @bpd1151 for a long time. He pretty much had the car since they came out. He always had good to say about them. I tuned with them in 2017. And just like within a year he had problems with them. Cant really blame me there. I couldn't find any issues on forums for lms back in 2017 that I can remember.
So that I why I tuned with them.

I wanted to be like Mike lol

There's probably thousands of people's shos that don't have forum accounts who saw what he made of his car and went with lms also. Maybe not directly but it helped them find lms. I didn't know who they were before hand. Not singling him out, there were others. But he had probably 700hp at the crank and that was awesome.

There really wasnt anything bad to report on about LMS in 2017. They were the go to for plug and play, until V11 came out off. Then the wheels fell off for LMS in the SHO community. The way they handled things was what really put a bad taste in my mouth.

They almost had me, but when looked at their bundles....they were really overpriced....esp the DAMN SPARK PLUGS!!!!! Then I learned about the trash tuning device, and that made me go in a difference direction.

 

[GotGrip?]

There really wasnt anything bad to report on about LMS in 2017. They were the go to for plug and play, until V11 came out off. Then the wheels fell off for LMS in the SHO community. The way they handled things was what really put a bad taste in my mouth.

They almost had me, but when looked at their bundles....they were really overpriced....esp the DAMN SPARK PLUGS!!!!! Then I learned about the trash tuning device, and that made me go in a difference direction.

The device made me do an instant 180 once I realized I was stuck with them after that. I don't like being pigeon holed into things, the way they started out in this platform it seems like they just wanted a monopoly on it by doing things the way they did. I personally have no dog in the fight with LMS other than when I was a perspective customer then was put off by their horrid responses to my very simple curious questions. I wasn't trying to be a troll or anything just trying to get info straight and apparently LMS heavily frowns upon correcting mistakes or being professional, at least in my experience.

 

[Mike B]

I have the Gearhead AO tune and since I live in AZ all we have is 91 octane is the highest rating at most pumps. Unlike most other parts of the country - 93 is the “high octane”. So Matt said it’s perfectly fine to mix in some E85 with the 91 octane.
I found a local Chevron that has E85 ( yellow Handel “flex fuel” pump) and when the gas light comes on I fuel up ( 2-2.5 gallons of E85 )and the rest 91. It actually does make a difference than just straight 91 believe it or not.

 

[yaycandy]

I have the Gearhead AO tune and since I live in AZ all we have is 91 octane is the highest rating at most pumps. Unlike most other parts of the country - 93 is the “high octane”. So Matt said it’s perfectly fine to mix in some E85 with the 91 octane.
I found a local Chevron that has E85 ( yellow Handel “flex fuel” pump) and when the gas light comes on I fuel up ( 2-2.5 gallons of E85 )and the rest 91. It actually does make a difference than just straight 91 believe it or not.

Nice, I'm still trying to figure out how much e85 to mix in for e30 since I don't have an ethanol teller. E85 in pa is like 51-85 percent and then the gas is up to 10 percent Ethanol.
Looking at an inline ethanol readout to a gauge

 

[SM105K]

I have the Gearhead AO tune and since I live in AZ all we have is 91 octane is the highest rating at most pumps. Unlike most other parts of the country - 93 is the “high octane”. So Matt said it’s perfectly fine to mix in some E85 with the 91 octane.
I found a local Chevron that has E85 ( yellow Handel “flex fuel” pump) and when the gas light comes on I fuel up ( 2-2.5 gallons of E85 )and the rest 91. It actually does make a difference than just straight 91 believe it or not.

Flex Fuel pumps in AZ (at all Cheverons) are E54 (been testing everytime I fill up). I have a dedicated E30 tune. Half 91 and Half E54 = E30. 91 octane here is junk. I am hoping this FS HPFP will allow me to run pump E54 all the time.

 

[yaycandy]

Flex Fuel pumps in AZ (at all Cheverons) are E54 (been testing everytime I fill up). I have a dedicated E30 tune. Half 91 and Half E54 = E30. 91 octane here is junk. I am hoping this FS HPFP will allow me to run pump E54 all the time.

Let me know how that works out for ya. I got e85 and e15 on pumps. Maybe one day I won't have to mix

 

[SM105K]

Let me know how that works out for ya. I got e85 and e15 on pumps. Maybe one day I won't have to mix

That is exactly what I am hoping for. I will still test and I will have to mix when I leave the state.

 

[jtreber]

I know some here aren’t going to like this but this is my story. I rolled my 2015 off the showroom in the summer of 2014. A few months later I contacted Unleashed for a tune and questioned if the ’15 was any different than the previous years for tuning. He assured me it wasn’t and I bought his tune and sct. I tried to install it but found out the strategy was indeed different and sct didn’t have one for the ’15 yet. Torrie made me do the leg work to find out when it would be ready. SCT told me possibly 6 months. So I sold the sct and tune for a loss to end that shit show and called Livernois. They overnighted me their tuner and I was installed one day later. The car was barely broken in and I quarter miled the car before (13.99) and after with a 91 tune (12.99) with no other mods and I was happy. A few months later I went to Livernois and had their down pipes and Alky Control meth installed and replaced the boxed tune with an actual dyno tune. I never went back to the strip because this is just my daily driver but now it’s 55,000 later and it has been flawless. And I’m still on the same plugs from the dyno tune because it still runs great and I guess that I’m just lazy.

 

[SM105K]

I know some here aren’t going to like this but this is my story. I rolled my 2015 off the showroom in the summer of 2014. A few months later I contacted Unleashed for a tune and questioned if the ’15 was any different than the previous years for tuning. He assured me it wasn’t and I bought his tune and sct. I tried to install it but found out the strategy was indeed different and sct didn’t have one for the ’15 yet. Torrie made me do the leg work to find out when it would be ready. SCT told me possibly 6 months. So I sold the sct and tune for a loss to end that shit show and called Livernois. They overnighted me their tuner and I was installed one day later. The car was barely broken in and I quarter miled the car before (13.99) and after with a 91 tune (12.99) with no other mods and I was happy. A few months later I went to Livernois and had their down pipes and Alky Control meth installed and replaced the boxed tune with an actual dyno tune. I never went back to the strip because this is just my daily driver but now it’s 55,000 later and it has been flawless. And I’m still on the same plugs from the dyno tune because it still runs great and I guess that I’m just lazy.

Not mad one bit. They actually had their hands on your car, ff they installed all that, then I am pretty sure they gave you "their custom dyno tune" correct?

 

[Crazyeights]

Isn't the GH AO tune for 87-94 octane?

Could that be the reason that you have to throw in a few "e's" to get from 93 to 94 octane?

It made sense in my head, but then again, it's a really weird place in there (my head) so I might be way off.

I have the GH AO tune on my 2015 PP and no other mods. I run Shell 93 octane and have not had any issues. Am I just luck or is it the Shell 93 that makes the difference?

 

[FiveLeeter918]

Good thread so far. So for me, bought the car as the second owner in 2017, owned by a farmer previous, 4 years old and only 22k miles. Day 3 of ownership I bought a GH tune. Tune was great, took it to the track and ran 13.3s in it all day long, very consistent stock on 91. Coming from Mustangs I loved E, but Matt woudn't tune for it (at the time) on stock HPFP. I added some E myself just to test, but saw no gains and timing was maxed around 15 degrees with -0.96 OAR.

Since I was already slinging parts for Luis, and we had a lot of experience with the F-150 Ecoboost, I talked to him about tuning them, so he reviewed the file, did some research, and sent me a base tune. Wanting to compare properly, I loaded the GH tune back up and drove on it for a few days then hit the track and ran consistent 13.3s again. Loaded the Ortiz tune with no track revisions and went 12.98.

Obviously I'm the guinea pig for Luis's SHO tuning, but we have been working with cars all over the country setting custom VCT for higher elevation, higher DA with lower elevation, and other mod combinations that I didn't personally have.

Never had any issues with the GH AO tune, just wanted more and Ortiz delivered.

I had attempted an SSI tune back in the day when Matt told me to go to them if I wanted more than he was comfortable delivering, but decided against that. I also reached out to Brad, but his email consistency didn't work well with my time constraints so we could never make it happen.

 

[FiveLeeter918]

I have the GH AO tune on my 2015 PP and no other mods. I run Shell 93 octane and have not had any issues. Am I just luck or is it the Shell 93 that makes the difference?

typically it's all about getting the OAR maximized. Some 93 is junk 93 and some 91 is really good. Seems to vary a lot but if you can get OAR to optimize at -0.96 it'll make a huge difference.

 

[FiveLeeter918]

Interesting that you say this, they just had me replacing my O2 sensor because i noticed a ton of soot in my tailpipes, I asked them to do a revision and they said at WOT bank 2 was going into closed loop....now im wondering if it is just their tune.

Ryan, did you get a chance to change it out yet? If you're concerned it's the tune swap the O2s currently installed, if it jumps across to the other bank, then you know it's a mechanical issue.

If you want me to send you a new sensor to install and test I can do that no problem. If it fixes the issue you pay me retail cost, if it doesn't keep it.

 

[Ecoboost_xsport]

Ryan, did you get a chance to change it out yet? If you're concerned it's the tune swap the O2s currently installed, if it jumps across to the other bank, then you know it's a mechanical issue.

If you want me to send you a new sensor to install and test I can do that no problem. If it fixes the issue you pay me retail cost, if it doesn't keep it.

Now THAT is service!

 

[SHO_Off420]

Ryan, did you get a chance to change it out yet? If you're concerned it's the tune swap the O2s currently installed, if it jumps across to the other bank, then you know it's a mechanical issue.

If you want me to send you a new sensor to install and test I can do that no problem. If it fixes the issue you pay me retail cost, if it doesn't keep it.

Like i told you guys i have both sensors, tried to replace them last week but theyre stuck in there so i need to get some map gas for my torch to heat the bung and try to get them out

 

[Ecoboost_xsport]

Like i told you guys i have both sensors, tried to replace them last week but theyre stuck in there so i need to get some map gas for my torch to heat the bung and try to get them out

Next time, make sure you use some antisieze.

 

[SHO_Off420]

Next time, make sure you use some antisieze.

Well i wasn't the one that put them in, but if you get motorcraft most of them come with some on em

 

[SM105K]

Like i told you guys i have both sensors, tried to replace them last week but theyre stuck in there so i need to get some map gas for my torch to heat the bung and try to get them out

Confirmation.................move along the cycle.

 

[FiveLeeter918]

Like i told you guys i have both sensors, tried to replace them last week but theyre stuck in there so i need to get some map gas for my torch to heat the bung and try to get them out

all good, just reading through and wanted to clear the air on blaming the tune after you told us you noticed a short in the wiring. I want to make sure you're taken care of and want it done in the most efficient manner.