I need a 58 volt FICM asap!

Cowboy Troy · Jul 25, 2012

I have a 03 6.0 with a bad FICM and I wanted the bulletproof one but its only for 04.5 and newer. I know swamps makes one but you have to send in your old one and they fix it. Who else sells a good one?

patrickke · Jul 25, 2012

Why 58v?

F-250-Owner · Jul 25, 2012

quick tricks....

baddkarmaracing · Jul 25, 2012

patrickke said:
Why 58v?

Because its a 1500 dollar truck and he has money to blow now that we figured out it runs when it has a good ficm in it lol.

No in all seriousness just because we figured might as well do the 58v since it needs a new one anyway

Dave · Jul 25, 2012

Cowboy Troy said:
I have a 03 6.0 with a bad FICM and I wanted the bulletproof one but its only for 04.5 and newer. I know swamps makes one but you have to send in your old one and they fix it. Who else sells a good one?

Get your hands on a four screw logic board.

Run the BPD unit

Cowboy Troy · Jul 25, 2012

Where can I get my hands on a 4 screw?

Dave · Jul 25, 2012

BPD may have some, Otherwise find someone with a 4 screw core

Cowboy Troy · Jul 25, 2012

I think I'm just gonna go with the quicktricks one.

windrunner408 · Jul 25, 2012

I have the quick tricks one and like it.

a2elvis · Jul 25, 2012

Cowboy Troy said:
I have a 03 6.0 with a bad FICM and I wanted the bulletproof one but its only for 04.5 and newer. I know swamps makes one but you have to send in your old one and they fix it. Who else sells a good one?

Give BPD a call I bet they can get a 4 pin FICM logic board for you.

Zmann · Jul 25, 2012

I seen their storage room they have tons LOL

but even if they parted with one it would need programed for your truck

Dave · Jul 25, 2012

Zmann said:
I seen their storage room they have tons LOL

but even if they parted with one it would need programed for your truck

Nope. Swap the board in and go

Paul@CP_Trucks · Jul 25, 2012

Why not just fix yours?

Cowboy Troy · Jul 25, 2012

I called Vivian from quick tricks and ordered one from her. Thanks for all the advise!

Zmann · Jul 25, 2012

Dave said:
Nope. Swap the board in and go

I don't agree the logic side needs to Be programmed
I even offered to buy a complete unit and they confirmed that the power supply is the easy side the other half would need programed to the truck

Pizza pig · Jul 25, 2012

Zmann said:
I don't agree the logic side needs to Be programmed
I even offered to buy a complete unit and they confirmed that the power supply is the easy side the other half would need programed to the truck

Well technically you're both right to a point. The logic board is what stores the software, not the power supply, this is a common misconception.

Dave is right if the logic board came from a used ficm, good or bad. If the ficm is bad it means the power supply failed, not the logic board, so the power supply (what BPD offers) will work with the old logic board.

If the Logic board is new from Ford, youre correct Zmann it has to be reprogrammed. Im not sure if the logic board half is available from Ford anymore, if it is its too expensive. You can just buy a core/bad 4 pin ficm and take the logic board from it and put it into the BPD half shell power supply. However you never know what flash is on the logic board, but youre better off tuning it anyways :slap:

Cowboy Troy · Jul 25, 2012

Ahhh hell i caused a dispute! :doh:

Zmann · Jul 25, 2012

well actually a used logic board may have the wrong programing for the intended donor so it may need re programed to work

but if it's the original half shell from the truck then swap and roll .. but these guys needing the 4 pin will likely need a FICM flash

no dispute just good ole conversation

Pizza pig · Jul 25, 2012

Cowboy Troy said:
Ahhh hell i caused a dispute! :doh:

Nope! Just clarifying, like what Zmann said.

Zmann said:
well actually a used logic board may have the wrong programing for the intended donor so it may need re programed to work

but if it's the original half shell from the truck then swap and roll .. but these guys needing the 4 pin will likely need a FICM flash

no dispute just good ole conversation

The programming still will not matter, if the logic board has a early flash than thats a good thing, it will just throw a calibration sync error when hooked to IDS, which is fine. This is what happens when you flashback the ficm from a recent flash to a early flash. This in no way hurts the truck and doesnt need to be reprogrammed, it will work just fine. That being said It wont matter if the half shell is from the original truck, it can be from a good, or bad 4 pin ficm.

People with 7 pin's cant use their logic board, since its not a split shell, so theyre screwed unless they pick up a core and use the logic half shell with the BPD supply shell. :ford:

Hopefully this helps.

Zmann · Jul 25, 2012

Hmm when I was at Bulletproof I thought i saw a load of 1/2 shells with 7 and 4 pin?

I also thought They stated even if I bought the whole unit it would need flashed ,, and they didn't have the capability .. yet ,, I know they were talking with PHP ,, but that could take years LOL

anyway I may have miss enterpreted some info .. I was kind of excited to get the new BPD FICM LOL