Thats fine that you voted since you personally know the car. The rule was to weed out the people who heard about problematic 5.0s from the friends cousins uncles mechanic at Ford.

Lol, no sarcasm. Unfortunately, I can't edit it either.
Seriously. Well as of right now we can ignore the Steeda and Amazon vote. I'll try to pm a mod if they don't see this thread so they can make the edits.

 

Also, to PureSpeedMotorsports, did you ever contact Bama about your problem? If so, what did they say? They are the only company currently offering a warranty with their tune.

 

yes.. I'd appreciate that being removed..

this is no joking matter to anyone..the tuners or the people having issues..they are trying to sort it out and find a common denominater for what is causing the failures..we need facts from the persons effected directly

 

reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYtCNu3pTU

But seriously OP, this poll/thread needs to be started over w/ an option for tune w/no problems so its more clear

 

Oops. I hit the stock #8 pop by mistake please delete it.

 

hahaha, yup

 

I'd like to hear this too. I talked to Bama as recently as last week and they said they had no knowledge of a car with their tune popping #8. Ever. He said "not one person has called us and said 'I was running your tune and my car burnt #8' ever. And we ship hundreds of tunes"

 

There is that option. Read the last line on the poll.

 

didn't see that

But still, half of the #8 failures reported in this post were clicked by accident. Hopefully a MOD can edit it

 

Hey guys & gals

If this #8 failure is related to cylinder temps I would strongly recommend Redline's WatterWetter. I have used it for years on all my race cars & it does make a substantial difference in cooling temps. Cheap & easy to install.

http://www.redlineoil.com/Products.aspx?pcid=10

Hope this helps.

 

Purespeed motorsports has no posts about a #8 failure, seems a little suspect

 

I talked to the top guru at Steeda at length about all of this nonsense today . I will try to start a new detailed thread from my PC when I get a chance (I'm on Droid). Basically, The cooling on the #8 cylinder of this block is nothing new. companies dyno racing trying to get better numbers than the next guy by leaning the a/f definitely isn't helping the inherent issue of this block that dates back to the DOC 4.6 . Steeda is in the hottest part of the country so heat is always part of their testing and tuning. More to come...

 

 

Care if i join you !

 

This is a newly designed block. It is not the 4.6 block that used the (allegedly problematic) DOHC heads. The 5.0 DOHC heads are a completely new design as well.

 

So BRENSPEED now has 4 engines go with their tune...Is that correct? Three (3) from their posts as of yesterday and another one just posted...Am I reading this correctly?

What is going on here...

 

Stay tuned, hopefully he's typing in his text as we speak. I was about to call them as well, but i'm waiting on his answer before doing so.

 

I will take a stab and say that brenspeed changed the knock sensor parameters and put the a/f in the neighborhood of 13.0 if they're leading the pack for fried #8's.

 

That stuff leaves gunk in your engine...
http://www.s197forum.com/forum/showt...=redline+water


read!!!

 

can u quote please, the link is login only.