My last truck got about 10 mpg average if I was being gentle. Let a truck be a truck. Let it tow, let it haul and let it haul ass. If you want mileage, there is no shortage of hybrid and electric out there.
Most engines are designed to withstand extremely high tolerances. A tune and some bolt ons won't hurt much of anything. It's all a matter of your comfort level with being on your own if something breaks, but I've had a lot of positive experiences modding my vehicles.
Now with that, I know that...
I've modded, tuned and driven just about every vehicle I have owned hard and I've never had an issue. My first car was a 1989 Ford Probe GT. I got it with 120k miles on her and swapped out the pcm, added a custom ram air intake, a custom ignition computer, a high performance ignition coil, a...
I bought my wife the 7D mark I many years back as a Christmas present. She loves it. Great camera. The truck looks great. Any plans to do anything else to it? Lights, bumper, etc.
It is my understanding that the LS1 is a relatively small package so that's one of the reasons that you see so many LS1 swaps. The 5.0 Coyote is a really large engine, though. I could see where an LS1 could fit (I've seen them in Miatas before) but the Coyote could very well be too large for the...
Is it actual fuel being consumed or is it just the calculation being lowered in the screen? If you manually calculate the mpg, is it lower? The computer will go down pretty fast since anytime you aren't moving, you are adding 0 to the calculations which will dramatically lower your average as...
They have a lot of tunes and kits for the Mustang, Fiesta and Focus and you can even buy them from the Ford dealerships with full warranty. They cost a little more going that route, but if you are afraid of losing your factory warranty then that is the best way to go. They have a few kits for...
I've had modified vehicles all my life from Dodge, Ford, Honda and Toyota and I have yet to have issue taking anything I've owned to the service department. When I worked for Dodge, the service department had a customer bring in a SRT-10 Ram 1500 that had twin turbos and the service people had...
I felt the same way about the brakes. I was wondering if I was the only one. When I drove an XLT FX4 the brakes felt so soft and it took so much travel to get them to engage. It has almost put me off the truck but I really want to like it. I may be spoiled coming from my Fiesta ST, but I don't...