engine chips for tow vehical

JIMNLIN wrote:
60 more actual HP from a little '00 5.4 small block gas engine with a chip is a big stretch for any gas engine we tow with.

On a old engine like that I would concentrate on air in and air out.

However this is a 5th wheel camper forum. You would get a better response from the tow vehicle forum.

Ditto.... the *Tow Vehicle* forum will get lots more replies, discussion, debate, brand flames, etc...:R

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I put a 5 Star tuner on my 08 f-250 v-10. What I wanted was the shift points fixed while towing, it did that. A side benefit was it cut the 0 to 60 distance almost in half.

I ran a Super Chip programmer on my 2000 F350 V10. It helped a little. The thing that helped the most was changing the shift points while towing.

g4sbrg wrote:
I have a 2000 f150 5.4 gas, I looked up online engine computer chips. states better gpm and 60 extra HP. any of yall running performance chips. SEE ANY DIFFERENCE ??? I cant imagine not wanting the extra 60HP pulling my 5ver

Are you planning on towing a 5er with your truck? Just curious, you did post on the 5th wheel forum....just curious.

g4sbrg wrote:
I have a 2000 f150 5.4 gas, I looked up online engine computer chips. states better gpm and 60 extra HP. any of yall running performance chips. SEE ANY DIFFERENCE ??? I cant imagine not wanting the extra 60HP pulling my 5ver

Waste of money!

I have a custom programmer on my Ford diesel and it really works and does what it is advertised to do. But as one poster commented diesel and gasoline engines are two entirely different animals.
Actually I have little experience with tuned gasoline engines, but I do know that basically what they do, as with diesel engines, is add more air and more fuel-hence more HP and more heat. Heat is the death of an engine. It may take awhile but you will prematurely destroy your engine.

Unless a vehicle is turbocharged or supercharged, the tuner's a waste. They're getting about 85 more hp out of the tuner on a EcoBoost engine, and driveability is where the addition is really improved.

My old 7.3 SuperDuty with a 80 hp tuner is really a hoss. Before I made the change, everyday driving performance was really marginal.

Go for a better air intake system and a more open exhaust system. Even if it doesn't help your performance, you'll think it did--from the noise.

If it was that simple to boost MPG and get 60hp with no negative side effects...ford would have done it already.

5ver with a F150 5.4?

well, sounds to me from your comments its either not going to achieve much or burn something up long term, my f150 is rated for 8800 lbs towing and has increased payload which handles the 1200 hitch weight very well, my 5ver maxes out at 8200 fully loaded, I just wanted to get up the hills here in northern Arkansas a bit faster, but it sounds like I should make do until a get a new truck.
thanks

g4sbrg wrote:
I have a 2000 f150 5.4 gas, I looked up online engine computer chips. states better gpm and 60 extra HP. any of yall running performance chips. SEE ANY DIFFERENCE ??? I cant imagine not wanting the extra 60HP pulling my 5ver

You don't want a "chip", you want a tuner, so you can tweak settings and, if necessary, restore the stock settings. Also, when you bump up h.p. ratings like that, you're likely to significantly shorten the lifespan of transmissions and other driveline components. You pretty much have to build a whole package; bigger/add-on oil coolers; beefed up tranny; beefed up rear-end; bigger intake; bigger exhaust. I know that the setting on my old Banks Bullet tuner will give my D'max about 50-60 more h.p. in "sport" mode, but will destroy the turbo in pretty short order if I try towing my 10k+ FW with it, as that's a real weak link in the stock D'max's of that vintage. I run in T/H mode and added a Monster Exhaust as the best option, given my limited funds at the time. On level ground, with no wind, I'll even drop back to stock mode to save fuel. Even that extra 10-12 h.p. the tuner gives =costs=.

Lyle