1 Year Review of Daily Driving a 625 HP Ranger Raptor

[DirtDerrick]

It's been a little over a year now since tuning my RR. I've driven in snow, ice, below zero temps, over 100 temps, towing, 12 hour road trips, and some off-roading. Extremely happy with the truck, & have had zero issues (nope sorry, I blew a fuse installing the subwoofer). Used it to tow a 22ft car hauler on an 8 hour trip through the Kentucky & North Carolina hills. Really impressed me, and I think the other drivers I went by on cruise control up some step inclines. I wanted to post this as a lot of people had negative comments "ecoboom", about tuning these trucks. We kept the power down, safe torque level for the stock transmission, & I just had the transmission upgraded by Suncoast Performance, & Also we've just upgraded the stock intercooler to the new CVFab unit as well as their Charge pipes. So now we are turning it up for another year of testing. Huge thank you to Adam at ZFG Racing for helping me, & monitoring everything along the way. It was a little scary back in March of 2024 when he used my F150 Raptor ECU to unlock my truck for tuning so that he could help Maxx in Australia become the fastest/most powerful RR (at the time). But having worked with him on 6 or 7 vehicles & him having tuned thousands of these 3.0's worldwide....I said...let's do it! Nathan

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[Slyder]

CVF makes decent stuff.

Are the charge pipes pre-production version or actually from the 2.7L?

I talked to them back in January and knew the intercooler was coming, but they couldn't give a time-line on the charge pipes.

 

[DirtDerrick]

CVF makes decent stuff.

Are the charge pipes pre-production version or actually from the 2.7L?

I talked to them back in January and knew the intercooler was coming, but they couldn't give a time-line on the charge pipes.

We’ve ran ProcessWest, Wagner, and now CVFab. So far data is similar.
Pipes are pre-production, But might get released as soon as next week. They’re ready to roll from our standpoint.

 

[superj]

that is awesome, that much power and real world use and no issues.

 

[welker]

Do you ever "launch" your truck by holding the brake? I blew my rear diff doing that as soon as I installed the FP tune. I wasn't sure if it was just a freak think or something to be wary of after upping the torque.

 

[superj]

you broke it power braking? i would think power braking would break stuff since vehicles now days have disk brakes front and rear.

 

[welker]

you broke it power braking? i would think power braking would break stuff since vehicles now days have disk brakes front and rear.

Yup! Just held it on the brake and as soon as I let off, clunk, no more drive. I had done it quite a few times before the tune with no issues. For what it's worth I beat on this truck pretty hard, so it wasn't the biggest surprise.

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