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Originally Posted by kmhappel
HI again,
On the subject of shakedowns, I agree that the shakedown run is going to be VERY important. We are doing three. The first is static and across the street from the dealer, The second is a couple of hundred miles, to another dealer in the company where friends live, the third is 500 mile further on at home. I hope the three stage trip with planned checkouts and repairs as needed will get the initial list straightened out.
On fuel, I get it. On tuning, as I said before, from previous experience, this is the single greatest upgrade that one can do. In CA it is illegal for emissions reasons. For me the real issue would be passing emission tests after five years or when selling. How do people deal with that? If there is a good answer, I'd do the 5 star in a heart beat.
These guys have a system that stores the stoc k setup so it can be reloaded. Does anyone know them? https://www.ultrarvproducts.com/Ford...-Custom-Tuning
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The Ultra RV tuner either IS a 5 Star tune (it's the same hardware) or they simply copied the 5 Star tune.
All of these tuning/hardware solutions can flash the ECM back to stock at any time. So if you need a smog, you simply put the stock calibrations back in it, drive it for a week or two and you're good to go. And you're good for 8 years on new vehicles until you need a smog now anyways. 8 or even 5 years is a LONG time. Anything could happen in that amount of time.
And as far as "illegal in California", have you had the pleasure of using a "California legal" gas can? They're a perfect example of CARB laws gone crazy. The point of them is to reduce release of hydrocarbons, but instead they leak so badly that they increase the release of copious quantities of actual gas onto the ground, your body and anything else around. My point? Don't worry about it. It's not like you're gutting or removing your cat.