Hi all I was wanting to know some good mods to do to these Cobras? A friend is getting one and wanting to know where to start?
ironmedic said:i really wish i had an 03, it kills me that i dont!
BLU-BLZ 03SNAKE said:just read my signature. i can have all my mods off int 2 hrs.....fyi if youre worried about warranty work.
Jay
Uncle Meat said:How do you hide the scrape marks on the Eaton snout shaft? One of the first places inspected by the field reps when major warranty work is required...
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Tat98Cobra said:Hmmm - interesting, My pulley came off so easily with Billetflow's puller . There are no scrape marks on it at all
peace
BLU-BLZ 03SNAKE said:im with Tat98. not a scratch on mine either. I was careful.
BLU-BLZ 03SNAKE said:just read my signature. i can have all my mods off int 2 hrs.....fyi if youre worried about warranty work.
Jay
Uncle Meat said:The couple I've looked at up close were pretty obvious, at least it was to me. I guess being careful with the install/uninstall and a quality pulley puller makes a difference!
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Derek@amazon said:they can detect that car has been modded due to how the preditor works, the computer counts how many times its been flashed. if the count doesnt match what ford has for your car. your warranty if declined
Uncle Meat said:Hey Derek... do you know this first hand, or is this just what you've been told? I really don't think the software that a SVT dealer has available can tell them how many times the car has been flashed. I think it can tell them the date of the last flash though. Last but not least, have you actually met anyone whose warranty was voided solely for a Predator flash being present?
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Uncle Meat said:Hey Derek... do you know this first hand, or is this just what you've been told? I really don't think the software that a SVT dealer has available can tell them how many times the car has been flashed. I think it can tell them the date of the last flash though. Last but not least, have you actually met anyone whose warranty was voided solely for a Predator flash being present?
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flyonthewall said:A Quote from our local Mustang site
"They can't tell if you've had a tune per se, BUT, and this is a really big but, when you remove the Predator tune from your ECU it sets a generic warning code of P1000. What that code really means is that the adaptive ECU has not had enough drive cycles to establish an emissions standard, etc., etc. It's the same code you would get if you disconnected the battery ( and interestingly enouhg it will cause you to fail an ODBII emissions test! ).
The Predator will set that code when you swap back to your stock tune because it essentially wipes out the memory on your ECU and then re-installs the stock tune. The code will clear itself essentially over time, but you have to get a sufficient number of drive cycles in widely varried conditions which can take a while obviously. If you show up at the dealership w/ an ECU that presents a P1000 code they will take that as evidence that you have had an aftermarket tune on the car and they can and will try to void your warranty.
Trust me on this one, I've been there personally!
This is why most folks wait 'til they are out of warranty before doing the poolie and tune gig! Just an FYI!"
And another
"Can't you clear the code with the predator? ( I'm in IL and I have no emmisions) and if not can't you just pull the batt cable and take it in and tell them that you had to jump it cause your wife left the lights on.
No, the P1000 apparently is the one code you can't clear. Apparently it is a code that says all the codes were wiped out by a reboot of some sort. Essentially the dealerships will try to take that as circumstantial evidence that the ECU has been tampered w/ which will void your warranty. If you showed up w/ this code on a Ford Taurus though, noone would bat an eyelash but since it's on a Cobra, especially a supercharged one, they get really finicky about changing the stock tune and then covering warranty work.
You can say that you had disconnected the battery for some other reason, and they have no way of disproving that. I found all of this out because that is exactly what happened to me but the dealership tried to say that I had changed the tune and then changed it back ( along w/ having a N2O kit that never existed! ). Generally that's going to more hassle than it's worth so you might as well do all the other bolt-ons and save the pulley and tune for after warranty. "