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Well I finally installed the Fastman TB, very easy to install. Did it in like an hour in a parking lot. I'm very pleased with the results?the truck has life and a pair of balls now! ;.) I started getting a little to happy and started punching the throttle a lot and hauling ass around town. I did notice thru first gear not a big difference, but once second gear kicks in, man it comes alive?It sounds awesome?sounds like my old 76 chevy I used have with the 4 barrel carb?good deep sound. I'm very pleased the Fastman.
I decided to test her out and race some kid in a honda RICE BURNER who thought he was fast. Freakin smoked him?I know its nothing to be proud of but it's a start. I'm goin to get myself in trouble by speeding around town, its a bad habit I just started, but once I start watching the gas gauge move quickly I'll have to adjust?might as well have fun now, before gas gets ridicolous.
Now with the Fastman on, I can't wait to see the power difference once I get the CAI and muffler on.
 
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gator4life108 said:
I started getting a little to happy and started punching the throttle a lot and hauling ass around town.
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As long as you're off base tear it up!! On base though, keep the cruse control on 35. :D I know the SF's here at Andrews don't appreciate a well modded engine (not mine, the Hemi can get me in enough trouble here)and what it can do. Killjoys. :evil:

Odie
 
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Congrats on the TB, and the aftereffects ;) I was never fortunate enough to get a Fastman TB before I traded in my D, but everyone who gets one raves about how great they're.

I wanted to compliment you on your avatar. Thank you for your service, from a mom of 2 Airmen. (Oldest is in Avionics at Canon AFB Clovis, NM?possibly going to the Thunderbirds soon. Youngest, security forces, is in South Korea, coming home 1 June - 10 June, then it's off to England for a year.)

 
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Hey Indy, on the Fastman I ordered it one night and a day later I got a message from Dan himself, letting me know that he was goin on vacation for a few days so that delayed the shipping, but that's understanding. But it was here less than two weeks. The instructions are very dummy proof, every step is exactly how it was. I thought it'd of taken it longer than it did to install, but very easy. Just got to mail out the old one to get my core depost!

Waykul, thankyou for the compliments and I hope all is well for my fellow airmen. I'm most likely getting deployed to the desert this fall, I volunteered for it :?. The girlfriend isn't to happy right now, but its only for like 5 months so it won't be to bad. Thankyou
 
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Yes Mike, thanks for your service to our country.

I was MOS 72E in the Army which was a Combat Telecommunications System Operator back in the mid/late 80's ('85-'87.) If I were to join the Armed Forces now, your description of a Space Systems Operator / Satellite Operator would probably be right up my alley and a similar modern day equilivant.

We have another forum member active with Satellite observations? however his are natural, not man made.

In terms of the TB, Fastman gets lots of good press here. I have seen photos of the new/redone TBs and they look real good. I have always wondered about how much of the gain is from a new, clean TB verses how much is from the reworks and better design he has come up with in your opinion?

I'm past due to get one since I already have the headers, the CAI and a second PCM for B&G flashing. It just keeps getting bumped for this and that. This time around, it's a brand new business I'm buying LOL. Not quite the same level, but I think as one of my success rewards for myself this summer, it'll be a Fastman TB. We'll see. My D is quite spry as it is, more will be? let's just say? welcome for sure :cheesy:

IndyDurango
 
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Doed anybody know how much horsepower gain comes with the Fastman TB on the 5.2L I'm curious?

And Indy when you say natural satellites do you mean like planets and stars or what?

Dang 87' that's when I was born?I'm freakin young? :roll:
Also how's the Flashing of the PCM?I never figured it out what you guys are talking about?never really worked wih them?isn't it dealing with making the PCM learn all the new components that are modded to the D to make the most use of them?or am I thinking in the wrong direction.

Its funny without the comm?there's no completing of the mission?and without that, that's bad juju :naughty:
 
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Yes, planets and stars. Big ones. Real big ones.

Born in '87 doesn't make you young, just yet to experience all there's to experience. I'm young? just ask everyone. I'm a big kid, who's already lived a few lifetimes. Listening to Staind now on Sirius Octane 20, my son turns 16 tomorrow, he's in a rock band, I own a few businesses? all things that aren't really defined by 'age'. You're as old as you act IMHO.

The flash you add to the PCM via a SuperChips, Hypertech or B&G flash is a replacement of the stock program on the computer. On the first two, you do them at home with a handheld tuner and are reversable. The B&G is the most costly, the highest performance and is permanent, non-reversable? but it can be reprogrammed again if needed for a different level of 'tune'. That tune run's the motor and controls (based on inputs from all the sensors) the firing of the plugs, the timing, etc. DCX got our PCMs right. They're very smart and very adaptive.

Commo Dogs!

IndyDurango <--- just a kid? born in Jan '68.
 
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This is a quote from an e-mail from Dan Arcand.
My 52mm on a 5.9 sees 13HP and 17TQW gains at the rear wheels. You'll feel that. Even in the extreme humidity changes you see everyday in FL.
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I noticed a big increase with this TB, definitely a good mod. Throttle is very responsive from idle, and it gets better with higher RPM. This TB was my most recent mod in addition to a K&N FIPK, and Superchips programmer set for performance. Now if only those PPH headers would arrive soon.
Dan
 
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Same here, it all works together really nice and makes a very noticable difference. Waiting for those PPH headers, too!

Air Force EOD myself. Thanks for your service, everyone.
 
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gator4life108 said:
Hey Indy, on the Fastman I ordered it one night and a day later I got a message from Dan himself, letting me know that he was goin on vacation for a few days so that delayed the shipping, but that's understanding. But it was here less than two weeks.
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Same here, I ordered one through the Fastman website and received notice that Dan was going on holidays. Four weeks later, I'm still waiting.

This is painful to hear of the extreme benefits of the TB, and mine is possibly still in the Fastman shop. :wall:

I can't wait to get this TB!
 
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I must be the only person that thinks my Fastman TB didn't live up to the hype :? now I don't have headers but if I had to redo it I'd have saved my money and got the headers first cuz I have a feeling it'd have netted me bigger gains, the superchips I felt a lot more from.

Sure it responds faster then the stock TB but that's all I felt :roll:
 
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gator4life108 said:
Dang 87' that's when I was born?I'm freakin young? :roll:
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gee, I have a daughter who was born in '87. 3 days after my 20th b-day in fact. :lol:

to ALL my military family past/present/future/ALL branches, your service is honorable!! :clap:
 
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