Recent content by Tremek

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    4 wheel drive or sport mode?

    4A while already in Sport mode is going to diminish your wheelspin. The truck’s transfer case can divert torque through the wet multi-plate clutch arrangement while in 4A that won’t damage the truck on pavement. As others have said, don’t use 4H on pavement. Also frankly I wouldn’t use 4A for...
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    Tune at altitude? E85?

    @lxu - already have a tune on the truck from Brew City Boost and it's going well so far but do appreciate the note re: goosetuned. Last week or a few weeks ago? I ordered one of the Mishimoto-knockoff eBay intercoolers and it just showed up... Now to figure out what additional hardware I'll...
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    Tune at altitude? E85?

    Mine was a dog on the first tank of gas the dealer put in it (don't think it was 91) and even in Sport mode the factory tune isn't anything to write home about. Found a tuner that does email tunes for HP Tuners and so far the results are very positive, although IATs are still woefully bad. I...
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    Stock Wheels/New Tires

    I’m still running the KO2s at the dealership-set 50psi and frankly think the ride quality on my ‘19 is shockingly good considering, especially at 75+. We put 50k miles over the past 3 years on 2 trucks (200 series Land Cruiser and 2500 Quadrasteer Suburban) both running 285/70/17 KO2s and only...
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    Raptor Owners Awaiting the C8 Arrival

    Purifoy called me yesterday; said I was around 30th on their list currently, that they expected a 2020 allocation of at least 50 cars, they expected builds to start this December, they expect to see around 5 cars a month onward from that point, and that they would be selling at MSRP. They...
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    Raptor Owners Awaiting the C8 Arrival

    As with any hyped or potentially popular car, dealers will take what they can get - Competitive car markets like southern + Bay Area California, where crazy people will pay 5 figures over MSRP, will probably yield people drastically overpaying for the same car that someone in the midwest can...
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    Raptor Owners Awaiting the C8 Arrival

    Also true. For years I would take my G8 to the local Buick/GMC dealer and they were capable of doing the right thing. Once the ****** local Cadillac dealer invalidated my -V's warranty I did the same. Say what you will but that's the beauty of the GM dealership infrastructure; even though...
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    Raptor Owners Awaiting the C8 Arrival

    I'm interested for sure. With my e63s being reduced to ashes, I want something quick again and wow is this (in theory) a lot of car for the money. I have had a G8 GXP (manual :)), CTS-V wagon (auto :() and other random GM V8s (Quadrasteer Suburban, Saab 9-7x Aero) before and for all the...
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    Tune at altitude? E85?

    So I just got back my MPVI v2 HP Tuners package and it has no issue communicating with the truck. Who does HP Tuners tunes for Raptors? I'm baffled at how everyone is using handhelds or canned nGauge tunes instead of dyno tunes or HPT/EFI Live like every other enthusiast community out there...
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    Tune at altitude? E85?

    All, I’m in the Denver area, and the ‘19 I just picked up is a dog. Regular stumbles/knock retard (verified with some HPTuners datalogging), weird transmission shifts, and overall underwhelming performance. The highest octane widely available gas we have here is 91. There’s also e85 nearby...
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    New sticky please GEN2 owners pics

    Yeah, it’s less than awesome to have lost this car. :( My family is ok however so with some perspective it’s easy to see just how much worse this whole thing could have been.
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    New sticky please GEN2 owners pics

    Hi all, new ‘19 802A SC owner here. Had a house fire last week that took my E63s wagon with it, barely got our Land Cruiser out, so since we’re facing months of construction ahead I figured having a truck would be worthwhile. Looking forward to learning more about these trucks... Especially if...
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    2017 Excel Pricing Tool

    Nice work! This is a very helpful way to look over the breakdown of pricing for the options. Thanks for sharing!
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    Post Pricing Here!!!!!!

    Fly-and-drive or getting a truck shipped cross-country for $1k saves a lot of money over local (and frankly provincial) markets when pricing is insane. I'm in Denver and our market is not so large, and anything 4wd always carries a tax. I have flown for 6 out of my last 7 cars, it's just what...
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    Post Pricing Here!!!!!!

    Howdy, fellow V wagon owner! We would surely be a unique cohort with a Raptor and V wagon in our garages. :) While I think these trucks will depreciate relatively gradually given their desirability, the 1st gen Raptors (especially the 12-14 supercrews) approaching $30k for a relatively...
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