View Poll Results: Which tune were you running when cylinder #8 failed on YOUR vehicle?

Steeda

3.45%

Bama

6.90%

Lund

BBR

Brenspeed

6.90%

Amazon

6.90%

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Stock!! No tune and #8 failure

I've run multiple tunes and have #8 failure

My 5.0 is tuned and I have no problems.

75.86%

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#8 Failures, Which Tune Are You Running?

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8/2/11, 07:23 AM

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Brothers daily popped an 8 a few days back. He was running a brenspeed and a cai. We'll see
I know I wasn't sposed to vote because it wasn't my car but I know the car personally. Burnt plug smoky the whole sheBANG

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.

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actually i thought amazon was a joke, an attempt at sarcastic humor by the OP like you could get a tune at amazon.com, i didnt google them till after. you should edit me out of the poll, i tried to delete it myself

Lol, no sarcasm. Unfortunately, I can't edit it either.

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I didn't vote because I fit a category with no voting option- I ran Bama 91 street tune for a while with no problems, removed as a preventative measure until we know what's what.

Oh, this poll is off to a good start!

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.

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8/2/11, 07:25 AM

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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.

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8/2/11, 07:28 AM

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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

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8/2/11, 08:50 AM

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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

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8/2/11, 09:02 AM

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

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8/2/11, 09:44 AM

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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

hahaha, yup

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8/2/11, 09:44 AM

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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.

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"

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8/2/11, 09:53 AM

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

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

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8/2/11, 10:10 AM

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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

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8/2/11, 03:04 PM

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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.

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8/2/11, 03:51 PM

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

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8/2/11, 03:53 PM

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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...

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8/2/11, 04:47 PM

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8/2/11, 04:55 PM

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8/2/11, 05:09 PM

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Basically, The cooling on the #8 cylinder of this block is nothing new. .....the inherent issue of this block that dates back to the DOC 4.6....

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.

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8/2/11, 05:18 PM

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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...

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8/2/11, 05:18 PM

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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.

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8/2/11, 05:37 PM

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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...

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.

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