One more 2wd 98 coil spring 5.0 swap.

[RangerSVT]

I didn't catch it before, but the HCL4 ecu code is for a 99 3.0l ranger, not the 5.0 mountaineer. This is why your receiving the codes you are, and why its running like its on 6 cylinders (basically, it is). I'm surprised it even fired and ran...

SVT

 

[Jbrown1238]

I didn't catch it before, but the HCL4 ecu code is for a 99 3.0l ranger, not the 5.0 mountaineer. This is why your receiving the codes you are, and why its running like its on 6 cylinders (basically, it is). I'm surprised it even fired and ran...

SVT

Thank you very much for dropping in and offering up that piece of information. You are 100% correct! I have the wrong ECM installed. I am not sure how it got switched as I was very careful to keep the 99 Ranger ECM away from my work area. I went back and went through several early photos that clearly showed the HCL4 installed in the 99 Ranger before I started pulling it apart. I then went to check my drawer where I keep my back up ECM (a EQE3). There should have been the 99 Ranger ECM and my new back up, a EQE3. Wouldn't you know there was two EQE3's in the drawer. How that happened I will never know.

I had Greg at Speedy Dyno write me a tune and he is ready to send me a revised tune to correct the codes. I will let him know that I also need the tune adjusted to accommodate the correct ECM.

I do have the back up tune you did for me but it is set up for my second SCT tuner which is now married to my wife's 07 Mustang GT.

 

[RangerSVT]

I can write the tune for the new handheld, and I can write to the EQE3 as well. Send me the serial number if you want to do this...

SVT

 

[Jbrown1238]

I can write the tune for the new handheld, and I can write to the EQE3 as well. Send me the serial number if you want to do this...

SVT

Thanks again for everything. I PM'ed you the SCT Serial number. The ECM is the EQE3.

 

[RangerSVT]

SVT

 

[veefer800canuck]

Wow, yeah, surprising it ran at all, being a V6 ECU.

Hmmm, weird.

 

[RangerSVT]

Check your email. I originally wrote the tune to have a performance shifting auto, so if you would have had the correct ecu installed, you still would have gotten the trans codes. I took care of that on the revised tune I sent you...


SVT

 

[Jbrown1238]

Check your email. I originally wrote the tune to have a performance shifting auto, so if you would have had the correct ecu installed, you still would have gotten the trans codes. I took care of that on the revised tune I sent you...


SVT

I got my PC updated with the SCT software and everything looks good. But it wont locate your custom tune when I select the browse function. Is there another format for the tune you e-mailed to me? It looks like a MTF file format.

 

[RangerSVT]

Think I might have a problem on my end. Pm'd...

SVT

 

[Jbrown1238]

Ok, now we are back in business! Thanks to RangerSVT for identifying the problem. I now have the proper ECM and tune installed and the truck runs much better. I uploaded a short video and I think you all will agree, "It runs much better with a V8 ECM!" I feel a little stupid right now but we are all friends right?

http://youtu.be/wUl0vnpovSw

 

[veefer800canuck]

Yay!

 

[RangerSVT]

Glad we got it figured out. With a project of this magnitude, its easy to overlook the little things...

SVT

 

[onlyme]

Sounds good, are you gonna run a x or h pipe? maybe lightning style exhaust or tails out the back?

 

[Jbrown1238]

Sounds good, are you gonna run a x or h pipe? maybe lightning style exhaust or tails out the back?

I am going with mandrel bent 2 1/2 inch, no cats, removable mid pipe with a "x" cross over into Flowmaster 44's and the out the back. I hope to keep a 17 inch space saver spare in the OE location but will sacrifice it if needed to get the exit the way I want.

 

[RangerSVT]

I always wanted to retro fit a foxbody V8 exhaust to a V8 ranger, make a ranger sound like a mustang...

SVT