What have you done to your Ecoboosted vehicle today?

Last week I had Livernois Motorsports install a 160º thermostat, new plugs, catted down pipes, 3 bar map and a tuner with a Stock, 91 octane and 93 octane programs in it. I already had a Airaid air cleaner & Dynomax mufflers on it.

It came off the Dyno with 355.30 HP and 380.42 Torque. I am happy with the outcome. I felt the difference right away.
 
bpd1151 said:
Makes sense. I was just suggesting you could likely save some coin, as we have seen those same temperature ranges (close to) here in my area, and the SHO'S performed wonderfully.

Although garaged, there are/were times while working, mine would sit out in that arctic tundra as well.

Certainly can't hurt, those add ons you're contemplating that's for sure. Good luck!

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Also doing this myself going to spend about $150 not $450 that Ford wants to charge and not really modding till I make sure there aren't going to be any spendy work needed if I void warranty.
I'd really love to just have faith and mod but with a baby girl on the way and trying to save for a house next year need to keep things as low and project able spending.
I use to run vehicles without plugging in down to -40 but one day I tried starting my impreza at -50 gave it a little gas shortly after starting it backfired and blew off a piece of the intake after the throttle body making the car goto max rpm then stall out.

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Batteries go dead very quick if you allow the voltage to drop enough for the battery to freeze and with the car choosing when is the best mpg time to charge the battery really need a trickle charger in the winter.
Colder it gets faster the energy is lost in the battery.

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Thanks everyone but just curious if any cold weather drivers have winterized their sho and have pics or suggestions of how they ran wires what goop they use to stick the heater on and how they got it to stay on till it set.  If no one has an answer I will be doing a detailed process of this just want to get some more ideas that I may have not thought of.

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Vortech347 said:
Up in AK getting a block heater is a great idea.

Stick to fully synthetic oil as well.
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Yea bought the car with a engine block heater first oil change used fully synthetic.

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As a born and raised Canadian I have seen 42 winters and temps down to -50c.
I have a garage, but when I'm elsewhere I plug my vehicles in once I see that temps are going to get below  -25 to -30.  I will also use gasoline line antifreeze on occasion and use synthetic oil.
I have never used an oil pan heater, adjusted my anti-freeze ratio etc.
 
thmullan said:
As a born and raised Canadian I have seen 42 winters and temps down to -50c.
I have a garage, but when I'm elsewhere I plug my vehicles in once I see that temps are going to get below  -25 to -30.  I will also use gasoline line antifreeze on occasion and use synthetic oil.
I have never used an oil pan heater, adjusted my anti-freeze ratio etc.
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I've never needed to adjust my radiator fluid but I usually fill it with straight antifreeze but this is my first turbo car and plan to keep this one for life most likely.
I have never thought of needing to use heet as my vehicle has never had much of a problem starting but maybe that would of saved me from blowing my intake.
I have left a full bottle of Preston antifreeze out in the winter just to see how it gets at cold temps and it was frozen solid at -45f I looked at my over fill and it didn't look frozen so I don't know what voodoo is going on.
But why is everyone trying to tell me not to spend money on winter protection. I usually wouldn't do much and haven't with old cars but this one I'm choosing to baby it as much as I can and still drive the **** out of it.

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For winter getting a set of rims and winter tires I really like Toyo observes only size they had that would match was in a 18in rim so getting a set of  motegi racing rims which will be lighter and easy to get all the snow unstuck from the rim
https://www.toyotires.com/tire/pattern/observe-g3-ice-studdable-passengerlight-truck-winter-tire
Then for spring switching to AS proxes 4plus since the Goodyear's crack as soon as they see freezing temps Ive read.

https://www.toyotires.com/tire/pattern/proxes-4-plus-ultra-high-performance-all-season-tires
I have a set of just proxes 4 on the impreza have held up good but would like something better in winter.
And they do make them in 20in that will fit.

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thmullan said:
Perhaps I'm incorrect but I have a tendency to believe that most a lot of people have not experienced winters like we do.  Lol
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I just know this is a norm here and always had beater cars that for general maintenance I tried doing best I could but didn't baby them now I have a car I care about and I want to do as much as I can to take care of it. Why im thinking of Installing a coolant circulator really all it does it make the inside warm up faster or I guess could allow me to keep at 50/50 mix. I have heated seats and steering wheel to warm up quick. 😁

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So I ordered two 150 watt heater pads one for the oil pan one for transmission. Bought the exterior plug not sure where I want to stick it also going to get two 9" transport lights from vision x probably end of October for that. I got a cool little plug box that I'm going to weather seal.
Bought black gasket maker because it's great stuff oil resistance.
Just saw I got 3.5 oz guess I'll be going to AutoZone for more anyways


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Oh yea and a carbon air filter hopefully it will keep me from smelling people's gas that's using 91 octane when they can't burn it fully.
 
Gjkrisa said:
thmullan said:
As a born and raised Canadian I have seen 42 winters and temps down to -50c.
I have a garage, but when I'm elsewhere I plug my vehicles in once I see that temps are going to get below  -25 to -30.  I will also use gasoline line antifreeze on occasion and use synthetic oil.
I have never used an oil pan heater, adjusted my anti-freeze ratio etc.
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I've never needed to adjust my radiator fluid but I usually fill it with straight antifreeze but this is my first turbo car and plan to keep this one for life most likely.
I have never thought of needing to use heet as my vehicle has never had much of a problem starting but maybe that would of saved me from blowing my intake.
I have left a full bottle of Preston antifreeze out in the winter just to see how it gets at cold temps and it was frozen solid at -45f I looked at my over fill and it didn't look frozen so I don't know what voodoo is going on.
But why is everyone trying to tell me not to spend money on winter protection. I usually wouldn't do much and haven't with old cars but this one I'm choosing to baby it as much as I can and still drive the **** out of it.

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I dont think people are telling you NOT to do it, but that it may not really be required. If it gives you piece of mind, go for it 100%.

Here are two articles I have pulled up about some of the testing Ford does, specifically about their cold weather testing.

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2015/08/13/going-to-extremes-fords-cold-weather-testing.html
http://www.wdrb.com/story/29785916/extreme-weather-testing-keeps-ford-cars-and-trucks-at-peak-performance
 
There should be many Ford PI Interceptors in your neck of woods and would be nice to get there inside perspective,standpoint on dealing with the situation on hand...a couple of coffee's can certainly go a long way,just my 2 cent.  Z
 
Rockstar04 said:
Gjkrisa said:
thmullan said:
As a born and raised Canadian I have seen 42 winters and temps down to -50c.
I have a garage, but when I'm elsewhere I plug my vehicles in once I see that temps are going to get below  -25 to -30.  I will also use gasoline line antifreeze on occasion and use synthetic oil.
I have never used an oil pan heater, adjusted my anti-freeze ratio etc.
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I've never needed to adjust my radiator fluid but I usually fill it with straight antifreeze but this is my first turbo car and plan to keep this one for life most likely.
I have never thought of needing to use heet as my vehicle has never had much of a problem starting but maybe that would of saved me from blowing my intake.
I have left a full bottle of Preston antifreeze out in the winter just to see how it gets at cold temps and it was frozen solid at -45f I looked at my over fill and it didn't look frozen so I don't know what voodoo is going on.
But why is everyone trying to tell me not to spend money on winter protection. I usually wouldn't do much and haven't with old cars but this one I'm choosing to baby it as much as I can and still drive the s*** out of it.

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I dont think people are telling you NOT to do it, but that it may not really be required. If it gives you piece of mind, go for it 100%.

Here are two articles I have pulled up about some of the testing Ford does, specifically about their cold weather testing.

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2015/08/13/going-to-extremes-fords-cold-weather-testing.html
http://www.wdrb.com/story/29785916/extreme-weather-testing-keeps-ford-cars-and-trucks-at-peak-performance
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Vehicles might have started in the cold although not sure if that is true and if they weighted ten hours before trying to start them at -40
8 hrs at -40 I could start my 05 Ford focus without plugging but at 10 hrs oil would be to cold battery had amazing power oddly.
But the stress of oil at that temp can not be good.
But thank you here in prudhoe bay all vehicles are plugged in over night.

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