Tuner or Performance Chips - Do they work?
Not really sure where to post this so popped it in here... I am interested in possibly putting a performance chip in my 1995 Jamboree Rallye 30ft MH with a Ford 460 V8 engine. I just bought it a...
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I'll throw a couple of random thoughts into the mix here.
Using a pickup truck as an example - I know the original poster mentioned a motor home, but this is a generalized thought - the designers have no way of knowing if you'll be running empty or pulling a massive fifth wheel or carrying a 4,000 lb. truck camper. They don't know if you'll be running at sea level or high in the Rocky Mountains. Summer temperatures in Death Valley or Winter Temperatures in Frostbite Falls. They have to come up with a set of settings that work sort of ok under any of those conditions.
I speculate that SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING could use a tuner to fine tune to optimal settings for his exact conditions. It's the 'somebody who know what he is doing' part that suggests this might not work out in the real world.
As far as the oem engineers knowing best, all I can say is, that after watching what a disaster both the 6.0 and 6.4 liter diesel engines were, either Ford has the most clueless design engineers in the world, or else they were repeatedly over-ridden by their incompetent pointy-haired boss.
Using a pickup truck as an example - I know the original poster mentioned a motor home, but this is a generalized thought - the designers have no way of knowing if you'll be running empty or pulling a massive fifth wheel or carrying a 4,000 lb. truck camper. They don't know if you'll be running at sea level or high in the Rocky Mountains. Summer temperatures in Death Valley or Winter Temperatures in Frostbite Falls. They have to come up with a set of settings that work sort of ok under any of those conditions.
I speculate that SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING could use a tuner to fine tune to optimal settings for his exact conditions. It's the 'somebody who know what he is doing' part that suggests this might not work out in the real world.
As far as the oem engineers knowing best, all I can say is, that after watching what a disaster both the 6.0 and 6.4 liter diesel engines were, either Ford has the most clueless design engineers in the world, or else they were repeatedly over-ridden by their incompetent pointy-haired boss.
