What info

[cleatus12r]

Originally Posted by Power Hungry

Dang Cody, I'm gonna have to put you on the payroll!

That would be a change. I work for charity so often (gotta love the auto repair industry) that getting paid would probably give me a heart attack.

Besides, I have no secrets. I like to help out....kind of gives me a purpose.

[kokopellimotorsports]

I will sit this one out and read. Lots of great info here.

[nelstone74]

I think I am starting to get a good undertanding of how it works, There must be like a library of tunes that you can look at for a specific request and pull one to meet the need. I would guess this library grows from R&D and live tuning sessions. Does that sound about right?

Which of course leads to another question. What kind of things can be manipulated?

So far Ive seen mentioned

Shift stragergies
LIne pressure
TC lock points
fuel (is it how long the injector fires)
timing (I assume of the injection)

[cleatus12r]

I can't give you specifics on Bill's software yet (hopefully by next week), but I have been inside and out with the Sniper Delta Force software.

Ford in their infinite wisdom decided that having specific parameters that are tuneable would be too easy so the Ford PCM actually uses many different ways of controlling different outputs such as "line pressure". The 95-97 automatic parameters that I have to work with are few and far between. The "torque table" is a pretty easy way to firm up shifts across the board. However, TV (throttle valve, which is OLD school mechanical terminology) pressure is the shift pressure in relation to APP (accelerator pedal position), so there are two ways....then there's a "solid state" TV variable.....

"Injection timing" is another one of those "more than one way to skin a cat" type things.....and there are a lot of ways to do it.

It's a lot to get your head around!

[kokopellimotorsports]

Originally Posted by cleatus12r

I can't give you specifics on Bill's software yet (hopefully by next week), but I have been inside and out with the Sniper Delta Force software.

Ford in their infinite wisdom decided that having specific parameters that are tuneable would be too easy so the Ford PCM actually uses many different ways of controlling different outputs such as "line pressure". The 95-97 automatic parameters that I have to work with are few and far between. The "torque table" is a pretty easy way to firm up shifts across the board. However, TV (throttle valve, which is OLD school mechanical terminology) pressure is the shift pressure in relation to APP (accelerator pedal position), so there are two ways....then there's a "solid state" TV variable.....

"Injection timing" is another one of those "more than one way to skin a cat" type things.....and there are a lot of ways to do it.

It's a lot to get your head around!

I have the Sniper Commando for the '05 F150 right now and there are so many different parameters to mess with it is still down right confusing. After seeing Bill's software and messing around with it, I think Bill's is a little easier to use and is more complete. Bill also took some time better explaining some tuning parameters to me while he was in Utah, even though it was not his software, how much better of a person or company could you ask for. I will be buying Bill's software soon. Thanks Bill and Corey you guys rock.

Ty