I need some advice

[Adam G]

I'm new here. I normally hang out at oilburners. Haven't even been on there in a while, but anyways. I work in a 3 bay shop. I have a customer with an 09 F-350 with a 6.4. He wants to make some improvements. First thing when I call him back I will ask if he still has warranty or wants to void it. What are your recommendations for intake, exhuast, and programmers? My exhuast warehouse stocks airaid, magnaflow and I believe hypertech programmers. He is dissapointed with the low end. He didn't speak of mileage but I don't want to drop it drastically. I know that it will drop with regen and him running the heck out of it. Please give me your opinions. Thankyou

 

[DaveBen]

Nothing you will do will hurt the mileage. It can only go up. Exhaust and tuners will get you the most gain. Be careful with the intake filter. Ford's is very good and doesn't rob HP until you get up to something like 500HP. What ever you do; don't use K&N filters!!!

Dave

 

[Adam G]

I'm not a k&n fan anyways. We generally use Afe. The guy only wants to get the low end woke up. I will probably just do exhaust for now.

 

[KRISTOLSON]

Banks Power | Air Density Testing
Check out this tech article. I am not a big banks pusher, but this test does go to show how good the stock intake actually is. For the price, I dont think I will ever change mine. Also, they used a dodge, so that tells me that they got the most gains over the stock dodge, so the ford oem intake must be even better. Checkout the zoodad mod, that should be as good as any intake.
I would say do a turbo-back exhaust, and buy a tuner which allows for the removal of the regeneration mode. With an sct tuner you can get a program to boost hp and eliminate the dpf regen, there are a few guys on here who have installed them, but I have not heard any results yet. His power and fuel mileage should go way up.

 

[Adam G]

Well after talking to the customer we will hold off for 99,000 miles. The truck only has 1000 miles on it and the customer doesn't want to void his engine warranty.

 

[MJ Synthetics]

Well after talking to the customer we will hold off for 99,000 miles. The truck only has 1000 miles on it and the customer doesn't want to void his engine warranty.

Get him on synthetic oils in the mean time so he can extend the life of the engine and increase fuel mileage a little bit 2-5% slightly more if he changes the entire drive train.

Remember 5% on a truck that is getting 16 mpg right now is .80 mpg. People think its huge and some claim more but I say poppycock to huge increase claims. I want you to know reality and the reality is if you get .80 mpg better you will go 24 more miles per tank. its not much but over a years time it will amount to just less than 100.00 in fuel savings for some one who drives 25k per year. Thats not to shabby for just using synthetic oil. Once he adds the Exhaust and tuner he will see up to a 3 mpg increase total.