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The factory DI system can't support full power on its own, I've verified this on a dyno. DI allows for cylinder cooling but PI allows for charge cooling. Ford spent a TON of time getting the injection blending figured out to achieve the target power goals while still meeting emissions for the...

801A here as well on my 2020 and absolutely zero regrets. The only thing missing I couldn't get separate from the 802A is the heated steering wheel but that can be swapped in the future if I want. As far as looks go, I definitely prefer the black mirrors and door handles, a bit of contrast goes...

I really like Oxford White. I just want to get some matte pillar trims to match the mirrors and door handles.

Super cool to hear about your background, lots of space in my heart for old German cars. I bought my first raptor a couple years ago mainly because I needed a truck to tow my evo 8 track car with but wanted a truck I could still have fun with so a raptor was my only option. No regrets to say the...

Towed a friend's time attack track car to NCM Motorsports Park this past weekend. The truck was definitely squatting harder than my first gen but that's due to the softer suspension. Despite that it still towed better than my first gen. Seriously couldn't have been any easier of a time towing...

Woo! Grabbed one of the grille decals which is something I was on the fence about doing for a while. Thanks a ton for doing this for the community and the decal! Will for sure be considering you guys for future purchases.

The live valve version is an internal bypass. Not sure about the non live valve version but I do know a guy who has the live valve version and he says there's no clicking like with external bypasses.

Break in is pretty important to an engine. High load, without going into boost, combined with lots of deceleration is ideal.

The pre collision system has its own automated braking procedure. I found that out driving my truck home from purchase when some guy cut me off and slammed on his brakes since we were approaching stopped traffic. If I wasn't paying attention it would've been nice, but I was and the auto braking...

Bought my truck new at $65k last October. No intention of selling but figured I'd see what KBB would offer me and came up just shy of $70k for it last week with 9k miles on it. Have had 4 dealers reach out to me about buying it. It's almost annoying how much they've been reaching out about it...

Absolutely. My factory spray in on my first gen would hold water at the front of the bed because there weren't any gaps to drain it which was always frustrating. Plenty of drain gaps with the line-x. Their platinum liner is also UV and chemical resistant. My old liner got a good amount of...

Also, just to consolidate everything I've done to the truck in this thread. Here's the setup I did with my center dash. Picked up a Builtright dash mount and grabbed some RAM mount accessories. For the moment I just have a phone holder and a gopro mount. I also added a USB bulkhead extension...

Guess I'll just keep updating this thread haha. Got the bed sprayed with line-x a couple weeks ago. Really lucked out with that, when I dropped the truck off I was chatting with the owner of the shop and he was telling me there is a national shortage on their chemical so all they had in stock...

They're billet machined aluminum, it's a piece that requires a large piece of stock to cut it from which is a large contributor to why the cost is so high and machine cycle time likely isn't very low. Add in all the hardware and the price makes sense. You'd be paying three or four times that for...

I've woolwaxed my last raptor and my current one. The black looks fantastic. From more than a couple feet away laying on the ground you can hardly tell it's even there and even after a typical salt filled garbage Michigan winter there's not a spec of rust on the underside of my truck. It never...

Not to step on any feet but if you're in the Chicagoland area check out JJ's Detailing LLC in Orland Park. My good friend Jeff owns and runs the shop and he does phenomenal PPF installs (he also uses Xpel). He did a paint correction and ceramic coated my last raptor and it looked brand new at 5...

And that's just for the hardware, after the company has paid the employees who've spent thousands of man hours engineering it, paying for tooling to produce said parts, and reconfiguring a production line to include this extra step for only these trucks, you're probably double that number...

My neighbor a couple houses down does development work on raptors at Ford. He's had a handful of gen 3s in his driveway the past couple months. Been meaning to talk to him about parking my gen 2 next to it and grabbing some pics for you guys.

I used to be a test and validation engineer for Ford at one of the powertrain dyno labs. I worked a lot with the 3.5L ecoboost. It's a globally used engine so it has to be certified for every country that it's sold in which means it has to be certified with fuel sold in that country.

I keep going back and forth about if I want to put on the gen 1 beadlocks I kept when I traded my gen 1 in or keep the new beadlocks on my 20. I can't seem to find anybody who's put the gen 1s on an oxford white gen 2 yet, unfortunately. If I could find someone local with some garbage tires to...

If it was oxford white I'd be seriously interested. Good luck!

There's no harm in running 87. These engines are calibrated to run on Chinese fuel which is extremely high in sulfur and the octane is under 85. If you're concerned about max power then fill up with 93. I've only put one tank of 93 in my truck to see what all the rage is but meh, nothing world...

Well I can count on more than one hand how many friends I've got with 3rd gen 4runners above 300k with nearly zero issues and I can't count on both my hands and feet how many friends with older Hondas over 300k. My post wasn't meant to compare domestic to foreign manufacturers. It's meant to...

Gotta wait for the 21s to come out and see if there will be an easy way to swap in the 2000W inverter setup.

DO NOT MIX. DO NOT MIX. DO NOT MIX. I know the video says they are compatible but Ford's official word is to not mix them. Mixing them can cause considerable fallout and corrosion issues if the system is contaminated in any way shape or form, I've seen it firsthand. If you do decide to change...