It’s a Ford Taurus, so the engine is pretty common since they put it in just about everything: Taurus, Edge, Flex, Exploder, etc. They also have a bored version that’s 3.7L. Those were in the F-150, Mustang, and some Lincoln vehicles.
So this tuning info could be useful to a wide range of people.
I forgot to mention that the tune uses regular 87 octane. No need for premium to hit those numbers.
I had my car dyno’d and tuned back in February. It has a naturally aspirated 3.5L V6. The tune bumped peak crank HP from 288 to 306 and torque from 254 lb-ft to 278, which is on par with the 3.7L variant of my engine.
While the peaks only gained 6 and 9%, respectively, other areas saw even bigger gains. For example, below 4000 rpm most of the power band gained 15-20 lb-ft over stock. And above 4500 rpm, the torque continues to rise rather than plateau which I’ve noticed in hard accelerations.
Another interesting thing is how much smoother the power band is compared to stock.
This was a bit pricey, though, and I see why most people don’t do this often. All told, it was about $2500 to do: Pre-Dyno inspection, HP Tuners ECU, set of step colder spark plugs, putting it on the dyno, etc. Honestly, would do again and would like to do in the future.
I wonder if they’re trying to run a custom OS on their vehicle, too.
Those blueberries will make you shit something fierce.
If you suddenly add the recommended dosage to your diet, you will absolutely have problems like that at first.
It’s ideal to slowly increase your fiber intake so your body has time to adjust to it. That way those problems are minimized until it’s a regular part of your diet.
I loved the first two back in high school and college. I’m glad they’re both playable on RPCS3 so I can still get my fix from them.
Really wish we could get some kind of spiritual successor to them; if anyone knows of a modern replacement, I’m all ears.
I have that and also MC:LA for the PS3. I recently learned that Rockstar never officially ported MC:LA to the PC so the only official ways to play it are on the PS3 and 360. And sadly RPCS3 still needs more optimization before it’s playable. I get about 15-30 fps whenever I try it.
I feel this would fit better under either Bone Hurting Juice or Speed of Lobsters. Idk if we have any communities like that here yet.
I see the similarities, but the Nowhere King had more legs.
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I haven’t looked into the details myself since I got lucky with my used Switch. But, yeah, it should still be possible.
Alas, the only easily hackable Switch’s were made until about a year after release. To hack modern ones requires a special mod chip that isn’t easily soldered on.
Nintendo unfortunately did a good job on hack proofing the Switch.
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I’d call them BJ’s: Bean Jeans
There’s actually two Switch emulators. Ryujinx is the other one. I’ve tried both and they’re both solid options.
On top of that, the odometer only went to 99,999 before resetting. Implying they didn’t intend the vehicles to last much longer than 100k miles.
The graph is showing horsepower (green lines) and torque (blue lines) over the engine’s rpm range. The solid lines are the stock run while the dashed are the tuned run. I wasn’t expecting huge gains. And most car people I talked to said not to expect much; one friend thought I wouldn’t get more than 10 horsepower. So the gains I got were actually better than I expected. But not by much.
The main reason I did this was because I couldn’t find any data on tuning this engine. Ford put these engines in a lot of cars (Taurus, F-150, Explorer, Flex, Edge, and all the Lincoln vehicles), so there are a lot of them out on the road.
And I know I’m not the only person who’s thought of tuning this engine. So I figured I’d take one for the team, tune mine, then share it with the world so other people can decide if this is right for them.
Pretty much. You can only do so much with a naturally aspirated engine. So if you want big gains from a tune, get a turbo’d engine.
I could turbo it, but I don’t want to drop that much money on it at one time. Plus I’d have to replace the transmission because Ford only rated the 6F50 for 300 hp and 280 lb-ft.
So that’d be another couple grand on top of the couple grand for the turbo.
That’s just way more than what I can afford.
As for mileage, 2-3 mpg actually feels about right. The computer is saying higher mileage than stock, but it’s not a huge gain. I need to do more driving before I can say just how much better it is.
It’s a 2015 model. So it’s far from new at this point. But it still has much less than 100k miles, so it still has a good bit of life left in it.
If I could go back, I’d probably do exactly the same as I did.
I actually plan on going back because I have a couple more things I want to do (ported intake manifolds, high flow air intake, a new exhaust as mine is getting rusty), but I’ll be adding those periodically. I want to see what each part does to the tune.
I’ve been repeatedly disappointed with most modern games, so I’ve taken to emulating my old games and playing them on my laptop. It’s honestly a pretty good time, would recommend.
I’m getting to play games I loved that I haven’t touched in over a decade (MotorStorm, all the Ratchet and Clank games, the good Need for Speeds, etc). Plus if there were any games I wanted as a kid but didn’t have the money, I can buy most of them off eBay for cheap.