The most wear you are going to see in a given amount of time in a new engine is during break in, typically the first thousand miles. All of those break in metals are going to be floating around in your oil for an extra few thousand miles putting extra wear on your main and rod bearings, camshaft...
Anyone that tells you not to do your first oil change early has no idea what theyāre talking about and generally shouldnāt be trusted on engine related topics.
Thanks. Iāve used Forscan but not in this capacity. Iāve downloaded the .ab for the 25 from the motorcraft website. How exactly do I get it into forscan and flashed into the cluster? Sorry for the noob questions guys.
Edit: I think I figured it out. First I read and save the stock IPC data...
Excellent Where did you get it and how much was it? I did some calling around and most of these dealers are useless. I did however find it on line for $845 but there's a $300 core charge?
I can tell you that on my 3.5 F150 I had my cam phasers done twice, one under a issue specific extended warranty and other work done while having a front mount intercooler, tune, every bolt on but turbos and water meth injection and no one cared. This like others have said is dealer specific.
If you have an issue AND they know you have a tune you may run into some issues. Donāt bring your car to the dealer with the tune installed and youāll most likely be fine for normal warranty work.
If you show up with a rod hanging out of your block and a tune installed you are 100% f*^%#d.
Update. I had an issue flashing the ZFG tune, shocking I know. First the RTD wouldnāt read the stock file so I sent in a 5 minute idle datalog. Then, I was getting an error that read āmodule must be upgraded prior to tuningā when trying to flash the new tune. After a little bit of back and forth...
Iām not on the fence I was just curious. I have been wasting time and money on this stuff for 30 years, from Accel DFI in a Honda in the late 90ās to the Haltech in my rx7. I agree, night and day.
You did en ecu swap or did you just flash the stock Ecu?
I appreciate that, Iām 5 minutes over the outer bridge. If thereās any hiccups Iāll hit you up.
I tried to explain thatās itās just like flashing an update to a regular ecu, but they didnāt care. Also, the lady at Causeway Ford in Nj sucks.
At the expense of jumping the gun as I havenāt even loaded their tune yet, whoever Iāve been talking to at sales for ZFG has been excellent.