First Look At A Ford Mustang 5.0 Tune in HP Tuners! Talk About Tables!

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[Swhipple]

It has two wide bands and 2 knock sensors which it will go negative knock which will add timing. If it sees positive knock it pulls one of the few ways it will add timing. Ill Be more than happy to share tunes or logs. No map. Sensors Only eco boost and f150 has them. Keep up the great work. Great videos appreciate you taking the time. I have a 17 mustang with a Whipple I have been tuning.

[twinturbomustang]

I am glad to see you doing a ford tune. Idle seems straight forward. But you will find out there is way more to the idle circuit then what is under the idle tab. You will have to make sure your torque tables and inverse tables line up as well. You will pull your hair out if your inverse tables are off. But glad you are digging into it. I will stay “tuned”for sure on this stuff . ( no pun intended, lol)

[yousefteezani]

Hey bro, could you upload any videos that explain how to tune a mustang 5.0 please?

[michaelprochaska]

The mapped points are primarily based upon a load %. EVERYTHING is Tq Management based. Take away the TQ management, bring in more power

If you set it up on a scanner u must setup all the mapped points used. It will show what percentage it is pulling from each table and you have to adjust it based on a %.

[WizardRench]

Could you go over a 3.5 ecoboost tune like this?

[MarioSanchez-qxyn]

I've got my driveability down finally because of all your help even though I had to translate from gm. I have my boosted tune file if your Interested. Also in scanner you Can log mapped points to give you an idea what tables its accessing.

[joshdrobny]

I cut valve seats at my work for the new 2.7, 3.5, 3.7 ford v6 heads. They are very interesting and the tolerances are mind bogglingly small. The coyotes aren't built in Cleveland so I don't get them in consistently. But a lot of the fords are dual injection, port and direct. That is the solution for DI intake valve cleaning

[JustChuck]

It doesn't have a MAP sensor because it's mass air. There is a BAP (barometric air pressure ) sensor that it is open to atmosphere.

I saw below that someone mentioned below that the auto shutoff is in the System tab, I can't confirm that. You can also turn it off with something called Forscan. Forscan is great for programming BCM features like backup cameras, brake controllers, and seat belt warning charms.

[automotifengineering]

Engine Displacement in HPTuners is the mass of air required to fill a single cylinder at standard atmospheric conditions, i.e. 15degC, 1.01325 bar.

'Engine Displacement' is used to calculate the Air Load as well as the Absolute Load.

Air load (fraction) = Current mass of Air in One Cylinder ÷ Engine Displacement

Absolute Load (%) = [Current mass of Air in One Cylinder ÷ Engine Displacement] × 100

Hope this helps. Thank you

[Logan_ismyname]

@5:20 You're thinking auto start/stop. that's not what that is. That's literally for the car to completely turn off once it has been idling in park or out of gear for a long period of time (15-30ish minutes). I noticed that they do that when I started eating lunch in my car in the parking lot. You can turn it off in the gauge cluster screen. Mustangs do not have auto start/stop, btw.

[TheBlueFx]

Most, if not all, modern Ford engines have factory widebands.

2018+ is the Gen 3 DI Coyote engine.

The mapped points you're looking at is related to the VCT angle pairs. Ford calls this the HDFX or High Degree of Freedom Executive tables. Ford uses this for dynamic blending of certain tables, like Borderline timing, based on the said angle pairing. You can log the HDFX table weighting and see where you're at and then make changes in those specific tables to adjust the calibration to your requirements.

As far as VE, what you're seeing is the values for Ford's modeling for VE. They've used a slope-intercept type of modeling that's semi quadratic in design. The SD calculator represents a virtual VE table, if you will, from their modeling. You can adjust this VVE style table and calculate the coefficients to have HPT automatically calculate and populate (update) the modeling data for your slope, intercept, and quadratic terms.

This is putting it all very simply, but it's not terribly complicated once you work with it a little bit and understand what they're doing more thoroughly.

[cjking]

I’m looking to becomes proficient in older modular engines. Mainly 4.6 2v and 4v systems. However there’s no help on forums and it seems like everyone just gave up on HPTuners for 99-04 stuff. Any help would be great. First one I’m doing Is a 03 Mach 1 manual car.

[pcmfrenzy]

This channel is getting very interesting. I love it. You just dont know what's next.
I would like to see a video on GM diesel. I've had a few requests on tuning them, and the DEF fluid disable.
Maybe you could look into this and post a video.
Thanks Kyle, you're doing great 👊😎

[yaqoubalmounes]

Generally, in stock and bolts on vehicles you only adjust the optimal power tables in vct section by decrease the enable load, change intake valve opening & exhaust valve closing tables by experimenting the results on the dyno to get the most power. The rest usually be changed when replace the intake manifold or delete the imrc.
For the speed density, you don't need to change it for bolts on be unless you are adding massive power. Yes you can log the mapped points in the scanner and see what tables are used.

[raymondkaczmarek]

I'm fairly new to tuning and a gen2 coyote swapped 2011 f150 was my first project. I left most of the vvt tables alone but used the optimum power vs TPS like you would PE in a GM. I did move it done the tps range. Owner drives like hes never heard of an mpg anyway.

[twinturbomustang]

2018(gen3 coyote) and up has direct injection and port injection.
2015-2017 (Gen 2 coyote) has only port injection

[brendanbrodie]

Great Video lets look at the EEC V 2004 Mustang

[aimedunphy]

Ford uses what we call HDFX tables. 2011-2014’s copper head ecu had 16 and then 2015+ doubles. These blend from optional power, - fuel economy, - drivability .. ect. You can use this to adjust tables only in the curve / area you want rather then a global adjustment. Doing it right = power and great drivability.

[bradbrooks]

Hoping to see more of this content. Not sure the 7000 chrono setting you mentioned is the SD to MAF only Blend point as you said. Where did you get that from? Also the distance tables the 9s aren't degrees it's distance target for the MP point given which mode the ecm is in. So 9 would target the MP point 9 which has a separate tablet that looks up the VCT cam target.

[ishyne]

when imrc is locked out we change desired position to open and position to 100% This tells pcm to basically ignore 0-13 VCT map points and we then disable those points. We make histograms for each map point on a layout when logging for SD, Torque and ⚡️. Ford has made it pretty complicated to tune.