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Old 04-04-2013, 07:32 PM
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have had my girl for 3 years now 108k miles...always do scheduled maintenance and lately she's been feeling like something more can be done...couple people have told me swap out the coil packs and it should do the trick...my question is basically what brand of coil packs should i go with (if there is even a difference) and is there anything else i could do to wake her up?
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Old 04-04-2013, 08:17 PM
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As far as the COPs, I'd stick with the Motorcraft OE coils. Aftermarkets have been problematic.

Have you reset the Adaptive Learning of the PCM? Disconnect the battery for about 1/2 hour, then put a few miles on her. She may run a bit rough those first few dozen miles but it'll straighten out. And there's no need to reload the tune afterwards but it probably wouldn't hurt, too.

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Old 04-04-2013, 08:19 PM
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You seem to have all the basic "wake me up" bolt ons already and this may not be exactly the answer you are looking for, but gears would totally change how the car feels. I had the basics (before I did the blower) and the biggest change for me was gears.
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Have the plugs ever been changed? As well as regular maintenance like throttle body cleaning?? A dirty tb will kill throttle response as well as drag the car down.. Try the basic stuff first
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Originally Posted by Nuke
As far as the COPs, I'd stick with the Motorcraft OE coils. Aftermarkets have been problematic.

Have you reset the Adaptive Learning of the PCM? Disconnect the battery for about 1/2 hour, then put a few miles on her. She may run a bit rough those first few dozen miles but it'll straighten out. And there's no need to reload the tune afterwards but it probably wouldn't hurt, too.
cool, OEM i shall stick with what kinds of problems have there been? just wondering...haven't disconnected the battery yet, i'll try that and see what happens as well...thanks Nuke

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You seem to have all the basic "wake me up" bolt ons already and this may not be exactly the answer you are looking for, but gears would totally change how the car feels. I had the basics (before I did the blower) and the biggest change for me was gears.
yea, i was thinking about gears but i'm on the fence about doing anymore serious work, i'll be trading her in either late this year or early next year, but it's still on my mind

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Have the plugs ever been changed? As well as regular maintenance like throttle body cleaning?? A dirty tb will kill throttle response as well as drag the car down.. Try the basic stuff first
plugs were changed at 50 or 60k...always clean the trottle body and my JLT filter...i might be due for a cleaning of both though, thanks for reminding me
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I put in 3:73 on my 05 with a p1sc procharger and a 5r55s. Was better torque but hurt mileage on the interstate but I wasn't concerned with mileage, really who would once you put a supercharger on. And as stated, go with fomoco. Coils. Seriously, if you are thinking of trading in, don't throw more money into something your not even Thinking of keeping. Use it towards the new car.
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