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After you have bought all that garbage you've bought a new short block.........just saying..... (for the most part)
After you have bought all that garbage you've bought a new short block.........just saying..... (for the most part)
for the slght chance your car will lunch on a #8.
Precisely
Unless you purchase the Ford IDS tool to get the new ECU working with the rest of the system and recode the keys, Ford will have record of a ECU swap but yes you can buy a new ECU easily, Tousley sells them for like $400
It's amazing what ridiculous lengths people will go to in order to preserve a warranty. Often they spend or waste thousands more dollars than if they had just forgotten about the warranty altogether. Like the idiots that will keep a vehicle stock for 5 years and never drive it, and then the week after the warranty expires they put a supercharger on it. What were you waiting for?
This whole #8 thing is not as widespread as you would believe. From a quality stand point the # of reported defects vs. number of 5.0 engines sold, is still within a six sigma specification or less than 3.4 defects per million units.
It's amazing what ridiculous lengths people will go to in order to preserve a warranty. Often they spend or waste thousands more dollars than if they had just forgotten about the warranty altogether. Like the idiots that will keep a vehicle stock for 5 years and never drive it, and then the week after the warranty expires they put a supercharger on it. What were you waiting for?
How do you figure that it is less than 3.4 per million when Ford has only sold roughly 60,000 5.0 Mustangs, and there have been more with the number 8 issue in that 60,000. I also realize Ford uses a version of the 5.0 in other vehicles however technically they are not the same engine with the same engine calibration as the Mustang.
It's amazing what ridiculous lengths people will go to in order to preserve a warranty.