Jeff-Ohio
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I finally have the perfect performance tune to meet my needs!!!! I have had my MPT tunes for almost a year now and love the change in performance. There is absolutely a night and day difference between the power created with the tune in comparison to stock. So much so that it was really hard to drive the truck for a day or two in stock mode when I had to take it into the dealer for a recall notice.
What I never gravitated to was the MPT shift algorithm. While it is likely perfect for many, I personally do not need to be in the power band a majority of the time. For daily driving, I love the extra power the tune provides, but I do not like carrying extra RPMs and simply want the transmission to clip off shifts as soon as possible. That said, I have always hated the stock transmission calibration because it skips 2nd and 4th gear under normal acceleration (the skip shifts are slower and very noticeable to me). The latest tune that I got from MPT (MPT_93PR-X-Jeff-v8.enc) is essentially their 93PRX tune that uses the stock transmission shifting algorithm, but it does not skip 2nd and 4th gear under normal acceleration. They essentially took the areas that Ford set high to command skip shifts and modified/smoothed them out to be normal shifts. There are still cold modes during trans warm up that might do skip shifts since those are reportedly not adjustable, but that will be a non-issue with me since the skip shifts will go away once the transmission is warmed up. The outside temperature has not dropped below 60 degrees since I received this tune, so my revised tune is hitting all ten gears from start to finish.
MPT and I had previously worked together to try and get to my ideal transmission calibration by taking their deafault 93PRX tune and scaling back the aggressiveness, but despite their numerous attempts to get it perfect for me, I was never completely satisfied and chose to run the 93PRX tune with the stock transmission callibration that skipped gears. By taking the new approach and modifying the stock calibration to not skip gears, they hit the jackpot for me!!!! There excellent customer service is definitely very much apprecaited!!!!!
What I never gravitated to was the MPT shift algorithm. While it is likely perfect for many, I personally do not need to be in the power band a majority of the time. For daily driving, I love the extra power the tune provides, but I do not like carrying extra RPMs and simply want the transmission to clip off shifts as soon as possible. That said, I have always hated the stock transmission calibration because it skips 2nd and 4th gear under normal acceleration (the skip shifts are slower and very noticeable to me). The latest tune that I got from MPT (MPT_93PR-X-Jeff-v8.enc) is essentially their 93PRX tune that uses the stock transmission shifting algorithm, but it does not skip 2nd and 4th gear under normal acceleration. They essentially took the areas that Ford set high to command skip shifts and modified/smoothed them out to be normal shifts. There are still cold modes during trans warm up that might do skip shifts since those are reportedly not adjustable, but that will be a non-issue with me since the skip shifts will go away once the transmission is warmed up. The outside temperature has not dropped below 60 degrees since I received this tune, so my revised tune is hitting all ten gears from start to finish.
MPT and I had previously worked together to try and get to my ideal transmission calibration by taking their deafault 93PRX tune and scaling back the aggressiveness, but despite their numerous attempts to get it perfect for me, I was never completely satisfied and chose to run the 93PRX tune with the stock transmission callibration that skipped gears. By taking the new approach and modifying the stock calibration to not skip gears, they hit the jackpot for me!!!! There excellent customer service is definitely very much apprecaited!!!!!
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