Rouge idle when cold

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Originally Posted by Georgia Diesel

Im getting tired of all the bashing going on on these forums about how i got my ficm tuned and now it skips..

Georgia, you come across sort of harsh... take a breath man. I hope nothing I've said has been misconstrued as 'bashing' through these forums, that's never been my intent, I've just been patiently awaiting some responses or a reflash availability... but here's my thought...to be fair, you might listen to my end.

I agree that the skipping problem is directly a result of sticking injectors that's a given, and that's why Ford has created the inductive heat strategies. Now here's my point of view and where I'm coming from, the PHP tuned FICM was advertised as having a 'hybrid inductive heat strategy' which most anyone out there would believe is similar or equivalent to the Ford IH strategies. Thus, some one like me, average joe with a 6.0, who has a truck that runs great on a Ford FICM, should expect a similar result with the tuned FICM with the IH strategy it is advertied as having. No where on the site has it been advertised that 'Trucks that require I/H strategy will not run well with our tuned FICM'.

I see few potential paths (and these are only my thoughts/opinions).
1) PHP advertises that the tuned FICMs do not provide an IH strategy that works for all, and give fair warning to customers that if they have poor injectors, they will be unhappy or expect start issues.
2) PHP comes up with a FICM strategy that helps those that need it, and in the end, perhaps it is an option on the order form wether or not you order a FICM tune with or without IH strategy enabled. Let the customer chose. If I burn up a FICM, I won't cry, I'll likely fix it myself.


Again, I'm not bashing, I'm not crying, I'm not pointing fingers or blaming anyone, or Bill. I'm just saying what I see from my point of view, and waiting for a strategy that works for me. In fact, despite the intial issues I had w/ my FICM, I've continued on ordering an Gryphon w/ custom tunes from PHP. I have no doubt about Bill or his work!

Regards,
Eric Brust

[Georgia Diesel]

Again, I'm not bashing, I'm not crying, I'm not pointing fingers or blaming anyone, or Bill. I'm just saying what I see from my point of view, and waiting for a strategy that works for me. In fact, despite the intial issues I had w/ my FICM, I've continued on ordering an Gryphon w/ custom tunes from PHP. I have no doubt about Bill or his work!


this is not the first thread i have seen about this matter and i dont need to take a breath i am fine trust me...You said it all in your one sentence,,,,waiting for a strategy that works for me...Every truck will react different when it comes to custom tuning...what strategy that would be great for my truck may not be for evrybody else....Like i said before I AM NOT POINTING FINGERS OR BLAMING ANYONE,,, I AM JUST SIMPILY SAYING WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID. WHEN you modify these truck everbody takes the risk as there on...so if a tuner or programmer that you install whomever may do it , breaks you vehicle its not the tuners fault...I get sick and tired of reading on the other forums that ( people say WELL MY HEADGASKETS FNALLY BLEW OR MY TRANNY FINALLY WENT GUESS I WILL GO TO THE DEALER TOMORROW) and then a few days later there back on the forum saying ( THE DEALER VOIDED MY WARRENTY OR THEY GET ALL MAD AT FORD OR CHEVROLET OR DADGE AND SAY THEY WE NEVER BUY FROM THEM AGAIN)) I have pulled the engine out of my truck 3 times. can i blame the whoever tuned my truck for its failer.....NOPE sure cant,,,its my fault and i accept 100% of the blame and would never post on a internet site bashing the person that tuned my truck...I have ran tunes from just about every tuner there is thaat does them for sct and i can honestly say that i have never had a issue with the tuning that php supplies.....

[Jeremy]

GD,

Whats the build date on your truck? I'm just curious as to how far back you went on your tuning? I had a early 03, Jan 03 build. It ran like a SOB had pilot injection, a real good tow/haul, just flat hauled the mail.

[Georgia Diesel]

Not for sure as the strat bill put on it as I don't have my truck with me. I think it was a tec1 strat. Bill can confirm it for me. The earlier strats for these trucks really haul *** and have some nuts to them. I personaly love it. Now I am currently talking with ryan about building my sticks for me. Probaly gonna go around 175's but no bigger than 190's. Even with the early ficm strat with zero IH it is really not that bad. I may have to let it idle for 5 minutes or so but I do that anyway even in the summer. I don't remeber the build date but I do remember is is a early 03. My truck stays at home all week as I work out of town a lot. The wife drives it more than I do. I will repost the dates and what strat I running when I get home saturday or bill can post it. He knows. Haha. Its almost fun to drive now. I will say that with this early 03 programming I get better fuel mileage and have better performance than I did before with it tuned in my daily driver file. **** it even rolls a lil coal stock.