I have been running Innovative X-street. I just got the X-race and I am going to load it tomorrow. Would it be safe to run that on a 7-8 hour trip? or should I run the X-street? It would mostly be on cruise control most of the time. MPH around 75ish. Just wondering?
Just on what you said in your first post, I would agree with everyone else, however, there are a few things to consider.
What is the ambient temp of the trip going to be like or what is it like usually for this time of year(or when your doing the trip)?
And at what speed do you normally travel on this trip?
The main concern for those two questions are EOT and ECT(typically two things that most people don't get gauges for(or some type)). I have run ~90mph in 60-70 degree weather for about 30 miles and my egts ran 800 and something and my tranny temp was 180(after rebuild), but my ECT was creaping on 218 and my EOT was about 227.
Depending on how fast you run, how hot your tune is, and how hot the ambient temp is will help to determine if a hot tune is as really safe as people on here seem to think it is. On the face yes, it could very well be safe to run either tune(I'm not saying it isn't), but there are other factors that affect how safe a tune is on travels that must people tend not to gauge.
Just got back from a trip to Talladega this weekend, I ran my tuner on "race", no I dont run XCT, I use the Edge. I monitored the EOT and ECT, I had the following..
EOT ran 185 - 195 max
ECT ran level road 192
Hills it creeped up to 216 under a load
Couple of problems with that is that it was overcast for a good portion of that trip here unless you were in areas that wasn't getting any rain this weekend and I don't think there were many here that weren't getting rain and be how fast were you driving? Also how heavy was the trailer, was it empty, did it have a pittling load, there are alot of variables that were omitted from this. What was your EOT when your ECT was getting up to 216?
One other thing, if your in the habit of towing trailers with a race program, particularly with a tuner that doesn't tune the transmission(or even the engine for that matter) eventually you'll have tranny problems(I'll leave the K&N intake alone). I will tell you this, your tranny temps may never hit dangerously high levels, but your tranny will get hotter quicker and that should be a sign that you have some clutch material floating around to make your tranny work harder. Then you'll start having other signs that the tranny is going bad, spiking rpms, longer and erratic shifts and Edge products(even with ones with the so called tranny protection to them) have a notoriously high risk factor associated with them.
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