Cold start engine stratagy?

Stroked777 · Jan 21, 2014

Any of you guys tweak a engine tune to help warm the engine up faster? What I mean is do you increase Rpms, close turbo vanes, or turn the cooling fan on (I know it sound silly) to put a load on the engine to help it get warmer faster while in park?

powerstroked08 · Jan 21, 2014

I played with a tune for the cold weather. I adjusted the idle speed based on coolant temp, closed the vanes more, and upped the desired ebp to help it warm up faster.

Stroked777 · Jan 21, 2014

Any difference? I usually warm my truck up fr 15 mins while waiting at the punch out clock and it goes from around 40*f when I start it up to about 135-140 when I get back in. I had a piece of cardboard behind the IC but infron the the radiator and with or without it doesn't seem to make a difference

Dzchey21 · Jan 21, 2014

thats actually not a bad warm up temp to be honest.

I have messed with mine a little, high back pressure and closed vanes seams to help, as well as raising rail pressure at idle just a bit. Problem mostly is not making very much combustion heat, or EGTs being low. Needs a flapper like a 7.3 LOL

Stroked777 · Jan 22, 2014

My egts when it's about 10-20*f out get to about 300 when it's in high idle and about an ebp reading of 7-8psi and my boost will sometimes his 1-2psi

Dzchey21 · Jan 22, 2014

I'd say your about as good as your going to get honestly

Fordtrucks · Jan 29, 2014

You can raise your idle more. Have it ramp up slowly to 1500 or so. Mine warms up pretty quick.

Stroked777 · Feb 16, 2014

Fordtrucks said:
You can raise your idle more. Have it ramp up slowly to 1500 or so. Mine warms up pretty quick.

How do I go about doing that? I bumped the ambient temp idle up to 1200 and it seemed to have no effect, what table is it that you change

powerstroked08 · Feb 16, 2014

Stroked777 said:
Any difference? I usually warm my truck up fr 15 mins while waiting at the punch out clock and it goes from around 40*f when I start it up to about 135-140 when I get back in. I had a piece of cardboard behind the IC but infron the the radiator and with or without it doesn't seem to make a difference

Sorry I missed this post:doh:. Anyhow it helped out some, nothing crazy but they will only warm up so much without load. It will get to 150 or so when its around 10* out.