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You asked for a 3rd mod after tune and intercooler and mentioned alternative fuels. My assumption is a first tune on gasoline that could be 91 octane, 93 octane, etc. If you're willing to play with alternative fuels, you can add another tune for e50 (or just tune for e50 to start). Beyond e50...

Best bang for the buck after tune and intercooler would be an e50 tune. Worth about 3/10s according to those who have done it. Forget throttle bodies- more boost will more than compensate for that. Once you get in the 11s, turbos are the impediment after that.

Yep.

The truth is no one knows exactly how much the downpipes are worth. The best info is from @UNBROKEN at 2/10s, but as I understand it, he did those and exhaust without testing in between. I've posted before that the stock exhaust does not pose any significant restriction to 500 or more HP. This...

More importantly look at the weight and the offset. A nice setup for those looking for the upgrade.

Sorry about your problem. I've had similar problems in the past and will never do a sunroof again.

Well said. Unless you're running a full race vehicle (which is doubtful on an ST), keep your cats.

All Explorers are rear wheel based, (inline engine- not transverse) but not all are AWD.

I think it depends on your goals. Intercooler and tune can put you into low-mid 12s. @UNBROKEN 's experience is 2/10s on the downpipes. Personally, (yes an opinion) due to labor costs, etc. I wouldn't touch the down-pipes unless I was also upgrading the turbos.

I'm curious, why do you even bother to mount your phone? I keep mine in the front cubby or in the wireless charging space. Everything comes through bluetooth, so is there some reason for a specialized mount? What am I missing?

I imagine this ST saying "Luke, I am your father"...hoo-shoosh, hoo-shoosh, hoo-shoosh. (Fill in sound effects to your satisfaction)

To follow up on this post, I would especially encourage anyone buying a "tune" to take this into account. Part of the tuning, especially for "torque" production (higher HP at lower RPMS) would probably include playing with the cam and injection timing which could defeat Miller cycle valve...

I have looked at numerous SAE papers (and you can too) about non port injected GDI engines and valve deposits. From an engineering perspective, I'm not sure why the 2.7 and 3.0 don't have the same port injection as the newer gen 3.5 engines (cost is definitely a factor). Trying to give Ford a...

Thanks for the feedback. I was just trying to figure out the reason as I was concerned with handling and outboard clearance. If neither are affected, that's good to know. Some of this information is so spread out I wonder if the moderator might see someway to curate this info with that from...

Screaming Yellow Zonker color!

It's very hard to tell from those pics, although it does look like there is some negative camber there. However, if you take some of it out, I'm trying to understand the reason- just the looks? Won't handling be affected? If you change the camber on wider rims/tires won't you run into issues...

Sounds like typical "Squonk" behavior. You probably ran over one.

He didn't buy it sight unseen, I was being satirical. But he's gone from the site now. We shall mourn his passing...but not his idiotic commentary.

"So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why?" Then I decided, why work at all, when someone will subsidize? Apologies to the Five Man Electrical Band!

Or you could also be Lou Reed!