Recent content by CalvinC

And just because they’ve existed for a long time doesn’t change facts that they’re unnecessary on modern production engines. Cold air intakes have been around a long time too. Once upon a time, and for some applications, they made a difference. Today there are “good” CAI’s available that...

Ford added port injection to the gen2 ecoboost for efficiency, not for valve coking prevention. The DI-only Gen1 ecoboosts never actually ended up having a coke problem in the long run at all. But when gen2 ecos introduced dual injection people just assumed it would also help with coking. We...

Cannot endorse the Goodyear DuraTracs. They were absolute monsters in the powdery deep stuff - best I’ve ever run. But on ice and snowpack - which is 90% of what people drive on - they were like greasy rocks.

Catch cans just solve the problems they create. Well, at least the good ones do. The bad ones only create problems. A proper pcv system keeps this stuff in gaseous form.

Ah, the ol’ Brag & Bail.

And more pics please! On the fence about either the Night Edition or Sport package to go on my Canyon Lake. I’ve not seen any Laramie Sports in CL. Congrats! She’s a beaut Clark.

You’d be fine with the Pentastar V6, so any uplevel engine will just be that much better. Towing with a turbocharged engine is a revelation; the Hurricane would make the task effortless.

Modern engines only make the power their tuning demands, and stock intake and exhausts are more than capable of exceeding those demands. A tune is a must to realize any gains from those, and even then will probably be single digit variations owed specifically to those hard parts. A tune is...

I don’t know what this backwards obsession with recalls is. To me a recall is a manufacturer going “crap, we screwed up, but we’ll fix it.” Much better than burying their heads in the sand like many do.

Sweet! Upgraded to one of those Bluetooth springs? Let us know how the squat is.

I get you. Time is money. But hmmm? Those don’t look like Klipsch speakers? Where’s the copper woofer? The radix horn?? Almost like it’s all just a licensing play and Harman has the entire industry wrapped around its finger. But it sounds damn good nonetheless.

I agree the AWE seems to provide the best sound on Hurricanes. Historically they were one of the only ones capable of making an EcoBoost exhaust note bearable. Yes, everyone knows it won’t sound as good as a V8, but for those that want some character out of their Hurricane, I think AWE is...

That’s the craziest part about the eTorque setup. It has 90% of the same ingredients and therefore complexity of the PowerBoost, but with 0% of the benefits. I think the battery packs are even within Spitting distance of each other in kWh.

What??? Ewww. No. 0w-16 for life!

To be fair, groceries would be at or near payload for many of the upper trims. [emoji1623] I’ll see myself out.