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Thanks for the lesson!
Hi Bill,
Thanks a ton for the lesson, that is the sort of stuff I've been wondering about before I would want to go with any further tuning or programmers. You should 'sticky' that reply, because I'll bet a lot of people have similar questions which may keep them from wanting to upgrade further. I know when I got the FICM tuned, followed by the Evo, and didn't see a huge improvement and it ran crappier in cold weather than stock, I was having second thoughts about considering springing for a Gryphon. Now that I know a lot of issues can be 'undone' , I want to get undoing them! Bet you can't guess what ECM strategy code I've got.... (VXCF7H3). I'm glad to find out that it is about the worst thing out there on the 6.0s yet, it gives me hope  I still see ~18 mpg on highway, but it sure is sucking in town. Do you suppose that is why I'm having such issues with the modified FICM and Evo? Or do you still think there is a possible code error that prevents inductive heat from starting, or it times out to fast? Either way, once you've got the Gryphon code ready to help fixup the ECM and FICM strategies I'm stuck with, I'm ready to send an order to have you convert my Evo to a gryphon, set me up with tunes, and redo the FICM if need be. I'm excited to get my truck to be fun again!Thanks again for lesson Bill, you rock  Eric
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Sun, December 6th, 2009, 10:38 PM
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Cool, does this mean, I can have a VXCF4 and the TCM code from a 03??
 Probably not though...
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Thu, December 17th, 2009, 05:44 AM
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Jeremy,
The problem with that is that the two strategies do not match. One is 448K and one is 512K. While I've had *some* success putting a full '03 strategy in an '05 PCM, it's not anything I'd recommend any time soon. We'll still need to have the '05 strategies reconfigured with the earlier shift strategies to get that really nice downshift we discussed. Maybe I can get to it during the holiday break. 
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Hi Bill, I have a quick question for you. I have a 2006 6.0l that is running the VXCF9 strategy. As you know my mpg sucks and power is gone, but I have been able to get most of this back when I load Matt's spartain diesel tunes from his VXCF4 family on my SCT X3 programmer. When I run the VXCF4 im getting 5 mpg better than before, but I don't know if i'm putting my truck in danger because I'm still running the FICM at the VXCF9 setup that FORD put on it. Can I run my truck this way or do I need to roll back my FICM to your modified setup, and what is that exactly? I live in Idaho, so it's kind of cold here. My goal is to have good cold starts but get good mpg and power.
Thanks for you help.. Phil
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