Installation Time
(approx) 15 Minutes
Difficulty Level:
Simple installation for anyone.
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Hey, guys. Adam here with americantrucks.com. And today, we're taking a quick look at and installing, of course, the MPT REV-X by SCT Tuner with 3 Custom Tunes, available for your '11 to '14 stock or bolt-on modded 5 liter F-150. You should be checking this out for your stock or otherwise bolt-on modded 5.0 if you're looking to increase your horsepower and torque, get a better throttle response, faster zero to 60, quicker quarter mile times, so on and so forth with a handheld tuner customized to your particular setup. Now, of course, there's a ton of different options in the category when it comes to tuning your vehicle, some of which are custom tunes, some of them are pre-loaded. And there's honestly a pretty huge difference between the two. And then you can break that down even further to the different tuning companies. So a pre-loaded tuner basically comes with pre-calibrated tunes already on a device, it's shipped right out to you, you plug it in and you just tune your vehicle. Nothing's really set in stone or dialed in, I should say, to your particular setup. Custom tunes, on the other hand, are the complete opposite. They go in depth and customize your vehicle's tune depending on what mods you have, if any, the octane levels, tire size, gear ratio, so on and so forth. And so many more parameters can be modified in order to get you the best performance possible out of your vehicle for whatever application you're using your F-150 for. In this case, we're working with MPT tunes. What we're gonna be installing on our 2013 5.0 is just a 93 octane tune. I wanna show you guys the difference between our baseline run on 93 octane, as well as the after run with our MPT tune on it. What do you say we take a look at this graph here? Now right from the factory with our 34-inch tires, with 93 octane in the tank, bone stock under the hood and a stock gear ratio, we're looking at about 274 horsepower and about 295-foot-pounds of torque at the rear wheels. Not too bad for a stock pull on 93. Taking a look at our after poll once we had the 93 tune from MPT installed, we walked away with 292 horsepower and 314-foot-pounds of torque. So pretty decent gains there with the MPT tune, with literally nothing but octane in the tank. Looking at peak gains of about 18 horsepower, 19 foot-pounds of torque, pretty good right there, just with the peak gains. But if we look at the curve gains, it gets a little more impressive. Our curve gains are about 24 horsepower, 31 foot-pounds of torque at about 4,000 RPM. So that's low-end too. We're looking at really good accessible low-end torque. If you're looking to get the most out of performance, especially when it comes to using your truck when you're hauling or towing some heavy cargo, having that torque at the low-end is what we want. Now if you wanted to pick this up, the price tag is right around 450 bucks, which is a pretty common and consistent price tag in the category. Those three custom tunes you can expect to have an 87 octane, of course, a little bit more gained on fuel economy, as well as a 91 and 93 performance tune for all out performance gains. So keep in mind, when I do take you through the process of tuning, you will only see a 93 tune on the device. But if you were to order this and you have it in your hand, and you're getting ready to tune your '11 to '14, you will see the three different options show up on your menu. It's a pretty good device, handheld, about the size of a smartphone, very easy to use with the buttons on the screen. It isn't a touchscreen but then again, you don't really need it to be. It takes 20 minutes, you figure this thing out, upload your tune, you might use some of the added features on the device. But either way, extremely, extremely simple user interface. Pretty easy stuff, very easy to follow the menu, not much required as far as knowledge. It'll take you guys 15, maybe 20 minutes at the most, which is why I'd give it one out of three wrenches on our difficulty meter. All right, kicking this off, you wanna make sure your device is plugged into your OBD2 port on your F-150. Make sure the ignition is on but you're not fully turning your motor on, just turn those accessories on. From there, it'll load up, you'll get the load screen, taking you to the main menu. The first thing we wanna do is tune our vehicle. We're gonna go into Program Vehicle, confirm that the VIN number matches your truck's VIN number, can confirm that. It'll take you through a loading screen. Also, if you're not already connected to Wi-Fi on the device, now is a good time to do that as well. You can do that in the device settings menu or it'll take you or prompt you in the Program Vehicle section. We've already done that so, of course, it won't go into that. Now if your device needs updates, now is the time you can do that. Ours is good to go. You're gonna go ahead and Skip. Cloud Sync. If your tune is on the Cloud, now you wanna move forward with Cloud Sync. Our tune is physically loaded to our device through the device updater program. So we're gonna skip that. But, again, if your tuner put your tune on the Cloud, you wanna hit Continue. For us, we're gonna skip. It'll give you the notice that this is not legal for use or sale in California, you wanna make sure you're agreeing to that, hit Continue. Again, turn key on, put it in the on position but don't start the engine, continue from there. At this point, it'll start loading up your vehicle tune options. All right, here are our tunes. Now, we do have a pre-loaded tune on the device so you can ignore that, that won't be the case for you guys. But if you go down to your custom tunes, whatever tunes you have available on your device will show up here. Now for the three custom tunes, you'll have 87, a 91, and a 93 option. We only have a 93 option just for the sake of showing you guys what the 93 tune will do. But if you have the three custom tunes, they will all show up here. Because we wanna show you what 93 does, I'm just gonna go ahead and select the 93 PR-X tune, it's our 93 performance, it'll move forward with that. It'll begin to ask you if you wanna modify the tune, if you wanna make changes to your rear gear ratio, your tire ratio, things of that nature. We don't want to change anything. We're gonna go straight off of the tune itself. But if you did wanna make changes, you could, of course, go in there and alter a few things. As far as additional settings go, the current configurations are what had just been set for us from MPT, so I'm going to hit Approve, Continue.That was basically highlighting all the parameters of the tune if you did not change anything, so that's a good thing to keep in mind. You can check in things there and go back if you wanna make any changes to some of the parameters. At this point, it instructs you to turn your key off. And that may happen a few times throughout the process. Turn the key back on. And from here, it'll start taking you through that process. And once it's at a 100, we'll be finished saving your stock tune to the device. It'll begin tuning your 93 tune or whichever one you've opted to choose. Keep in mind, throughout this whole process, it might look like your battery is shutting off at some points, that is the tune and the flashing process taking care of the ECU. It'll come on and off, it'll shut things on, it will turn things off, so on and so forth. So just keep that in mind moving forward. All right, at this point, the program is complete. We have our 93 tune on our truck. Now, guys, I wanna show you some of the features that the REV-X tuner with the MPT tunes has on it.Now no matter what tunes you actually have loaded on the device, the features of the device itself do remain pretty consistent. Now we already talked about Program Vehicle, now you saw us tune to 93 octane. But if we wanted to go down one, you'll see gauges and data logging. That brings up a whole other feature on the device. Now you wanna make sure your key is on so gonna pop that into on position and we're gonna hit Continue. All right, so we're gonna go down, it gives you a number of different options as far as what vehicles you had this connected to. So you wanna go down, we have the Ford gas '08 and newer, of course, so we're gonna hit Continue with that. It'll take you into the data logging and gauges section. Gauges being the ability to monitor engine vitals on the fly. As you can see, the default right away, we have the control module voltage and our coolant temp. But we do have the ability to select a gauge layout, meaning we can monitor six to eight different things at the same time. You can change it from portrait mode to landscape mode, so on and so forth. We have fuel trim. It just monitors so many different engine vitals at the same time on the fly. If you wanted to use a windshield mount or some other phone mount maybe on your vents or somewhere in your interior, you can track this on the fly at all times with it plugged in. If you decide to drive with this plugged in. In addition to that, you can start recording data. You can datalog. So if you work with your tuner closely, you can, of course, drive this, record your data, datalog it, record that back to your tuner, make improvements, modifications, so on and so forth to the tunes themselves by having that datalog feature right at your fingertips. So you wanted to go back, you hit Stop Datalog, takes you right back to your main menu. Vehicle Functions, you can also read your DTC codes, diagnostic trouble codes. Check engine light comes on in the future, don't know what's going on with it. You can plug in your REV-X device to your OBD2, read the diagnostic trouble codes with that feature there. And it will tell you, not only what the code is, brief description of the code. You can, you know, take that forward, whether it be a quick fix or you're taking it to your local shop to get fixed, you can then clear the trouble codes. From there, that's a really good feature to have. Vehicle Info is very convenient as well. Vehicle info being your VIN number, your ECU code, your strategy code, things of that nature if you're working with your tuner or if you just needed to know that quickly on the fly. That is located on your Vehicle Info screen. You can see your VIN number, ECM, ECM [inaudible 00:09:33]. Go back, hitting Exit. Device Info, the same thing. You have the device name, app name, device part, serial number, that's something very crucial when working with your tuner. Device Settings is your last option, check for updates. That is something that can be done by plugging it into the computer. You can check it with the device updater program software or you can connect to Wi-Fi, which is an option down here.Cloud File Sync is something I briefly went over when we tuned it to the 93 octane option. If your device has not been synced with the tune file directly through the computer and a USB cord, if you wanted to do that via Wi-Fi, if your tuner has uploaded them to the Cloud, it should be available here under Cloud File Sync. You can then pull your tune from the Cloud wirelessly and have that on your device stored as long as you have a good Wi-Fi connection. Same thing with datalog. You can upload your data logging to the Cloud to then share it with your tuner. And then there's simple things like you would get with, you know, a phone or an iPod or something, there's brightness, orientation. You can change the theme colors. There's power management mode, audio, startup function, demo mode. You can reset the entire device by formatting everything and wiping it clean if you needed to in the future. Well, guys, that's gonna wrap up my review and install for the MPT REV-X by SCT Tuner with 3 Custom Tunes available for the '11 to '14 5.0 stock or bolt-on modded F-150. If you wanted to pick up the REV-X by SCT Tuner with the MPT tunes, you can get yours right here at americantrucks.com.
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Installation Info
Installation Time
(approx) 15 Minutes
Difficulty Level:
Simple installation for anyone.
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