Upgrades and Aftermarket - 99 & up 7.3L EngineUpgrading or adding OEM or aftermarket equipment to your 1999-Up Super Duty or Excursion with 7.3L Power Stroke diesel engine. Please confine discussion of topics in this forum to those items that are specific to the 7.3L Power Stroke engine.
I bought a BTS. Lifetime. After all, every trans will break sooner or later.
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01 Excursion 7.3L Powerstroke. Gauges with AIH Delete, AIS, CCV Mod, 4' MBRP, BTS Trans, 6.0L Trans Cooler and Intercooler, DP-Tuner F5 chip, ITP In Tank Mod and Boost Annihilator, Diesel Innovation's Regulated Fuel kit, BTS Big Oil system, GTP38R Turbo with 1.15 A/R housing and BPD Stage II AC injectors. Bilstein Shocks with U code front and A code Rear.
Buy a Hyundai, no need, invest in a "BTS SuperTranny", and have it all! Now, if Ford could build a Truck, like Brian builds a tranny
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Sold 02 F350 Lariat CrewCab Toreador Red/ Silver DRW LB AT 4X4 4.10 gears, BTS custom chip, and tranny. built BTS and Ford Tough! 859,532 miles
SOLD: 02 F350 Lariat CC Toreador Red, DRW AT 4.10 gears, BTS custom chip, and Tranny 214,550 miles,Built BTS, and Ford Tough!
Sold 94 F350 XLT SC DI DRW 5Speed 314,000
Lifetime Member "BTS BUBBA" Association
"Ain't no feelin like BTS mobilin"
SLAPS Member
Sold 62 Corvair 95 Bus
92 Buick deuce and a quarter
03 Ford Windstar- Granny Hauler
Buy a Hyundai, no need, invest in a "BTS SuperTranny", and have it all! Now, if Ford could build a Truck, like Brian builds a tranny
I'm sure they could. Problem is that few people will want to buy it. They are already having enough trouble with each vehicle they build costing more than what the Japs can build it for so adding these "frills" is out of the question.
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01 Excursion 7.3L Powerstroke. Gauges with AIH Delete, AIS, CCV Mod, 4' MBRP, BTS Trans, 6.0L Trans Cooler and Intercooler, DP-Tuner F5 chip, ITP In Tank Mod and Boost Annihilator, Diesel Innovation's Regulated Fuel kit, BTS Big Oil system, GTP38R Turbo with 1.15 A/R housing and BPD Stage II AC injectors. Bilstein Shocks with U code front and A code Rear.
I'm sure they could. Problem is that few people will want to buy it. They are already having enough trouble with each vehicle they build costing more than what the Japs can build it for so adding these "frills" is out of the question.
Sad, but true. Just think, a Super Duty built as good or better than A Kenworth, or Peterbilt.
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Sold 02 F350 Lariat CrewCab Toreador Red/ Silver DRW LB AT 4X4 4.10 gears, BTS custom chip, and tranny. built BTS and Ford Tough! 859,532 miles
SOLD: 02 F350 Lariat CC Toreador Red, DRW AT 4.10 gears, BTS custom chip, and Tranny 214,550 miles,Built BTS, and Ford Tough!
Sold 94 F350 XLT SC DI DRW 5Speed 314,000
Lifetime Member "BTS BUBBA" Association
"Ain't no feelin like BTS mobilin"
SLAPS Member
Sold 62 Corvair 95 Bus
92 Buick deuce and a quarter
03 Ford Windstar- Granny Hauler
my cost per mile for my BTS. Tranny cost $3500. in January,2004, has 356,456 miles to date, cost per mile $.0098 Now is that cheap or what.
That sure is a lot of miles. I wish I had an excuse to drive more often and rack up some more miles. I barely drive my truck now. Little work with the economy in its current state.
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2001 7.3L, John Wood stage-1 transmission, 6.0L trans cooler, Single-shot HO injectors, ITP RR, DP Tuner, Ford AIS Intake, 4" Exhaust, Detroit Truetrac, 245/70 tires, Accuride 19.5x6.75 wheels
for those who just tuned in..jw is still the better way to go.
How so? Please elaborate. The way I see it, unless there is a superior product for the price, they are about the same. BTS has the edge on warranty. Now if you want to compare the best that BTS offers with the best that JW offers, BTS will have the game. The best that BTS has is $4100. What is the best that JW has going to cost me? How much again for their Stage 3?
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01 Excursion 7.3L Powerstroke. Gauges with AIH Delete, AIS, CCV Mod, 4' MBRP, BTS Trans, 6.0L Trans Cooler and Intercooler, DP-Tuner F5 chip, ITP In Tank Mod and Boost Annihilator, Diesel Innovation's Regulated Fuel kit, BTS Big Oil system, GTP38R Turbo with 1.15 A/R housing and BPD Stage II AC injectors. Bilstein Shocks with U code front and A code Rear.
for those who just tuned in..jw is still the better way to go.
Attaboy Dezl, share with us those wonderful advantages. Maybe, it would be a trip to sunny California, is that not like a trip to another country, no passport needed, so far. Maybe the timing of the trip could include a nice earthquake, mud slide, or a raging wild fire.
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Sold 02 F350 Lariat CrewCab Toreador Red/ Silver DRW LB AT 4X4 4.10 gears, BTS custom chip, and tranny. built BTS and Ford Tough! 859,532 miles
SOLD: 02 F350 Lariat CC Toreador Red, DRW AT 4.10 gears, BTS custom chip, and Tranny 214,550 miles,Built BTS, and Ford Tough!
Sold 94 F350 XLT SC DI DRW 5Speed 314,000
Lifetime Member "BTS BUBBA" Association
"Ain't no feelin like BTS mobilin"
SLAPS Member
Sold 62 Corvair 95 Bus
92 Buick deuce and a quarter
03 Ford Windstar- Granny Hauler
Attaboy Dezl, share with us those wonderful advantages. Maybe, it would be a trip to sunny California, is that not like a trip to another country, no passport needed, so far. Maybe the timing of the trip could include a nice earthquake, mud slide, or a raging wild fire.
Nah! If I get a trans from JW, I sure wouldn't want to go to CA. Way too many whackos. IIRC, they were a large part of why we went to ULSD.
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01 Excursion 7.3L Powerstroke. Gauges with AIH Delete, AIS, CCV Mod, 4' MBRP, BTS Trans, 6.0L Trans Cooler and Intercooler, DP-Tuner F5 chip, ITP In Tank Mod and Boost Annihilator, Diesel Innovation's Regulated Fuel kit, BTS Big Oil system, GTP38R Turbo with 1.15 A/R housing and BPD Stage II AC injectors. Bilstein Shocks with U code front and A code Rear.
Well, this newbie, must be related to Pappy. maybe, just got off the boat, or is a good pot stirer. Time will tell. Ok, Dezl, take him to school. BTS Bubbas, will try to help him with his lack of education in the best trannys. Sure hope he is not in love ATS too.
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Sold 02 F350 Lariat CrewCab Toreador Red/ Silver DRW LB AT 4X4 4.10 gears, BTS custom chip, and tranny. built BTS and Ford Tough! 859,532 miles
SOLD: 02 F350 Lariat CC Toreador Red, DRW AT 4.10 gears, BTS custom chip, and Tranny 214,550 miles,Built BTS, and Ford Tough!
Sold 94 F350 XLT SC DI DRW 5Speed 314,000
Lifetime Member "BTS BUBBA" Association
"Ain't no feelin like BTS mobilin"
SLAPS Member
Sold 62 Corvair 95 Bus
92 Buick deuce and a quarter
03 Ford Windstar- Granny Hauler
i dont care for ats, im more into sunco and gearvendors
ATS Warranty is a joke. Pay aftermarket prices and get OEM parts. Which Sunco? Got a link? As to Gearvendors, I thought they make an overdrive unit or do they make a transmission as well?
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01 Excursion 7.3L Powerstroke. Gauges with AIH Delete, AIS, CCV Mod, 4' MBRP, BTS Trans, 6.0L Trans Cooler and Intercooler, DP-Tuner F5 chip, ITP In Tank Mod and Boost Annihilator, Diesel Innovation's Regulated Fuel kit, BTS Big Oil system, GTP38R Turbo with 1.15 A/R housing and BPD Stage II AC injectors. Bilstein Shocks with U code front and A code Rear.
I'm sure they could. Problem is that few people will want to buy it. They are already having enough trouble with each vehicle they build costing more than what the Japs can build it for so adding these "frills" is out of the question.
The biggest obstacle being the $70+ /hr (all in) the union workers get for highschool education. That's why the big 3 are going down. Honda & Toyota pay half that. Look at the Chevy Volt.... waste of a marketing exersize. They're only taking so long because the gov't gave them money for the project, meanwhile they already had the technology from the EV1 which they scrapped in favour of the H2 Hummer. What a joke. Letting them survive in the marketplace is like rewarding liars and cheaters.
I just got an 09' VW Jetta 2.0 TDI....WOW is all I can say... 60mpg on the hwy, 130mph on the top end, great acceleration, quiet, zero exhaust smoke, comfortable.... why can't the big 3 make an equivalent?? Ford's DPF takes away 4-5mpg.... VW can do it with zero loss, is Ford just stupid or what?
I've been asking Ford the last 10yrs for a 1/2ton turbodiesel..... they got the technology in Europe. Why do they get it and we don't?
Few years ago drove a Vauxhaul Vectra 1.9L TDI sedan in England.... exactly same as the Chevy Malibu here.... 130mph, great fuel economy, quiet, quick, etc. But here all they got is a lousy 4 banger or V6 gas guzzler. I don't get it??
Overpaid unions, bad design, arrogantly dumb CEOs.
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Now, if Ford could build a Truck, like Brian builds a tranny
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IIRC, they were a large part of why we went to ULSD. 
2001 F250 4x4 crew lariat 7.3L auto, DP Tuner F5 no-start/valet/20tow/80econo/140aggressive, Adrian Tavano's triple disc converter, transgo tugger HD2, ISSPRO egt/boost/pyro, foil delete, 6" stainless tip, Magnaflow 17979 4" turbo-back, dieselsite boots & coolant filter kit, HX crossover, boost fooler & tru-cool trans cooler, ported turbo housing, DIY 6637 Tymar, billet grill, line-x bedliner, bug deflector, tint, 08' alum diff cover, clear corners & tails, silverstar bulbs, Xtreme XT855 reverse lights, 1500w inverter, Tekonsha Primus, EQX, Epicenter, Autotek MM4000.1D, 2x Audiobahn AWT12X, 2/0 cables, JVC KD-AVX44 El Kameleon dvd deck, 12.5" flipdown video.
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