What have you done to your Ecoboosted vehicle today?

[SHOdded]

Levels FMIC installed. This ends my stage 1 performance mods, all that is left is coilovers (whenever they show up) and a swaybar on the rear. Next season, bigger/better turbo. I can see why this is a suggested kit by monotune for the focus, this combination of mods makes for a nice well-rounded power boost.

Ups the looks quotient for sure!

[MiDiablo]

That Levels Intercooler is FIIIIIIYA!!!!! 

[J_C]

Finally data logged a few runs for Torrie and was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. The car is running strong but looking forward to maximizing my setup with more logging

How did the logs look? How did it run? What kind of logs did you do?

Honestly, it was my first experience with data logging so it was foreign language to me..lol...It seems to pull harder now with the revisions but that is a butt dyno calculated. As far as the logs, I used Torrie's configuration file for a SHO.

Glad you got the logging down!

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Yep, much easier than I thought it was! I actually sent Torrie a few more logs tonight to look over. I'm hoping to make it to next Wednesday's test&tune for some passes. Hopefully she's somewhere in the 12's

[AnotherGreenFusion]

That Levels Intercooler is FIIIIIIYA!!!!! 

Thanks guys!

The charge air temp drop with this thing is amazing. Really rounded out the setup nicely!

[SHOdded]

How much of a drop vs OEM are you seeing?

[AnotherGreenFusion]

How much of a drop vs OEM are you seeing?

Easily 20-30*F or more, have only put about 100 miles on it so far, but I have yet to see it get over 97* in this current weather where before it was not uncommon to see 130+.

[SHO-Pa]

Did an oil and PTU change (yesterday actually). I'll send the fluids off to Blackstone to see how the PTU is doing.

There was about 5000 on the oil and about 15,000 on the PTU fluid. The first change was the OEM lube at 35,000 so we'll see if the reduced mileage made a difference. I did notice that there was a lot less gunk on the back of the drain plug this time. The lube was still black as all get-out and stunk as only axle lube can stink...

[sholxgt]

Picked these up today. 



Pulled a wheel off tonight (with wife's help since I have stitches in the back of my hand) and the caliper looks the same as my factory ones.  I suspect they are literally identical with the exception of the seals and drilled pistons.  One strange thing I noticed though is that two raised sections on the topside of the PP calipers has been ground off.  I suspect for additional wheel clearance, but no idea why that would be needed unless they are thinking PP owners may want to downsize wheels for track use.

Now I have to figure out what other parts I want.  I will be ordering new rotors and pads for sure.  Think I will also get new caliper pins and boots just to kind of start over.  Brake fluid change as well.  Thinking Valvoline synthetic for cost reasons this time.  Have used Motul and ATE in the past (ATE is in wife's Fit), but I think it may be overkill for this application?

The pads I'm looking to order say they come "with hardware."  Does that mean they will include the shims or just the clips?  Hoping to have EVERYTHING needed before I pull the wheel off next time.

[Gray Brick]

Finally installed the police interceptor trans cooler.
Drove through the desert and the transmission fluid didn't go above 195F up hills with ambient temps between 105-109F.

[SHOdded]

How hard was it to install?  Any different from doing the '13+ upgrade to the '10-'12s?

[SHOnUup]

Added some blue to the Ecoboost



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[Gray Brick]

It wasnt too difficult.... just time consuming to make it right.
There are threaded inserts under the reinforcement bar that fit the cooler perfectly but they are too far to the left. I needed to drill 3 holes to make sure the cooler was center to the airflow.

[Gray Brick]

Took out the fog lights and created a cold/ram air intake.
Tube goes to front of factory airbox.

Incoming air is almost at ambient.

[AnotherGreenFusion]

Bad traffic on the way home yesterday let me catch this




Also finally reviewed my track log data for the stock vs Levels FMIC

On the night with the stock IC:
Ambient Air: 71*

Min charge air temp: 89.42*
Max charge air temp 153.662*F
Temps went from min to max at about 7-8 seconds in to the run and dropped back to minimum within 3 seconds of letting off the gas.

On the night with the Levels IC
Ambient Air: 75*

Min charge air temp: 86.99*F
Max charge air temp 87.98*F

Temp rise and drop happened about the same time. You can really see that the stock turbo, nearly maxed out is not able to overwhelm the IC really at all. Does this mean I could turn up the boost some? Would that little stock turbo even be able to handle it? More research to do!

[SHOdded]

Nothing short of IMPRESSIVE!