Best startup Mods

[Raptor_man]

What are the must have / best bang for the buck starter mods that seem to be most popular for the 6.2? All I'm looking at now is a CIA.

 

[ZBoater]

CAI, exhaust, headers, tune.

I'm skipping the headers for now. A tune is a great bang for the buck mod.

 

[Jordan@Apollo-Optics]

What Zboater said. You could probably skip the CAI if you want. I have one but am not convinced it does anything other than make my engine louder. Tune will give you the biggest "seat of the pants" increase.

 

[subseashooter]

It's been a LONG time since I've 'tuned' anything, and at the time I used a timing light and turned the distributor...LOL!

What kind of 'tunes' are out there, and how does one go about the process of getting tuned?

Thanks!!

 

[ZBoater]

It's been a LONG time since I've 'tuned' anything, and at the time I used a timing light and turned the distributor...LOL!

What kind of 'tunes' are out there, and how does one go about the process of getting tuned?

Thanks!!

It's all computer driven these days. So here's the CNN version.

You buy a little hand held computer that programs your truck. It does the "tuning".

You buy software (a "tune") from a reputable vendor. These tunes are "canned", meaning they are somewhat generic for a particular engine type (6.2) and for a particular application (racing, towing, cruising, saving gas, a particular gas octane, etc.)

Once you decide which "tune" you like, and some tuners may even adjust their tune files based on your particular preferences or mods, they email you the file. You load it up on the hand held computer. You plug the computer to the truck, you push some buttons, and voila! You are tuned.

Choosing the right brand of hand held computer (tuner) and the vendor for the canned tunes is important. You can also have your truck custom tuned, where a tuner hooks your truck to a dyno and makes custom adjustments to your tune file. But the canned tunes are cheaper and pretty good.

And that is my version of Tuning 101.

 

[jondle]

What are the must have / best bang for the buck starter mods that seem to be most popular for the 6.2? All I'm looking at now is a CIA.

Secondary USB port in the console was the first mod I did.

Secondary USB Installation Guide

Do new trucks come with this already?

 

[jackrook]

Secondary USB port in the console was the first mod I did. Secondary USB Installation Guide Do new trucks come with this already?

New trucks come with 2 USB ports, AV cables, an SD card port, and a cigarette charger all confined in the center console. Then we have the primary cigarette charger to the right of the head unit. Not to mention Bluetooth streaming.

slowest member of WCPR

 

[The Macf]

Try the $100 mods thread.

http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f5/under-$100-mods-22877/

 

[Java]

my first real mod was a bump stop. If you want to play hard start there.

 

[NickPic83]

mid perch
progressive leaf springs
tune
cat back-for sound mostly
power steering resivior
led light bars