[Upshifter]

Well, you could always move to a lower elevation! Tons of folks heading Texas way these days.

The bosses would love it if I wound up in Houston.
But I'm there often enough to know better.

I'm open to nearly any other acre of Texas though.

 

[snakebitten]

You can live near enough to Houston, (it's really Harris County) yet steer around it if you absolutely gotta get on the other side.

I've mastered the strategy for 65 years.

 

[mass-hole]

The bosses would love it if I wound up in Houston.
But I'm there often enough to know better.

I'm open to nearly any other acre of Texas though.

My bosses wanted me to move to Houston a year or two ago and I told them absolutely not. I probably hurt my career path pretty badly(at this company at least) by doing that but I don't even care.

 

[Deadeye]

Hello everyone,
Posted a question last week about upgrading turbos and supporting mods. I pulled the trigger on a few goodies and was wondering where the 14 3.5 is safe to run hp and tq wise. Truck stays with 93 octane in it and I’m at sea level here in Florida. here’s a list of everything that is on it and will be on it.
-s&b cold air intake
-cvf atlas intercooler
-cvf hot and cold side piping
-turbo smart vee port BOV
-full race formline manifolds(fitted for Garrett power max)
-Garrett power max turbos
-full race turbo adapters
-4” MBRP cutback exhaust
-SCT x4 with custom tunes from MPT
I will be adding high flow catted downpipes later down the road just haven’t decided which set to go with. My main thing is I want the truck to have plenty of power and be reliable because it is my daily driver. Does anybody have any insight as to how much is too much? Also haven’t chosen what tunes to get from mpt if anybody with a similar set up could chime in on what they are using for tunes and how they like it. Thank you in advance and sorry about the long winded post I’m excited for new parts

My 2014 F150 TREMOR weighs 5460 pounds with me on board, and turned the 1/4 mile in 13.721 seconds at 96.82 MPH with just an MPT PR-X 93 octane tune. It's fast enough for me and has 60K trouble free miles on it.

 

[stvsbc]

My bosses wanted me to move to Houston a year or two ago and I told them absolutely not. I probably hurt my career path pretty badly(at this company at least) by doing that but I don't even care.

Guys, forgive my ignorance, but what is wrong with Houston? I live in small town East Tennessee, so I honestly am curious.

 

[Boatwaco]

Guys, forgive my ignorance, but what is wrong with Houston? I live in small town East Tennessee, so I honestly am curious.

To me, nothing is wrong with Houston. But it is a very spread out city. I pack a lunch when going from a northern to southern spot within the city limits. lol. It is a wonderful place. My Dad and my sister and her family live there. I worked there for a while too commuting in weekly. Just a big place to be.

 

[mass-hole]

Guys, forgive my ignorance, but what is wrong with Houston? I live in small town East Tennessee, so I honestly am curious.

Its just a massive sprawling spread of concrete if you are within like 30 miles of downtown. Its HUGE. I remember I landed at Hobby airport one time, which is fairly far south of the city center, and drove south towards Galveston for a good 20 minutes before I saw a sign saying city limits. The buildings in downtown were just tiny specks on the horizon. I never know where I am.

There are nice areas. I have a few(former now) coworkers who live in the Woodlands and that's a nice spot but I also think its super expensive because ExxonMobil has their headquarters there(its like a 40,000 person campus.)

But I also like being in the mountains and Houston is completely flat. The highest elevation is probably a bridge at one of the highway interchanges.

 

[snakebitten]

Definitely flat.
Houston is coastal. So you embrace the tropical weather (hot & humid), and the beach, rather than the cool dry air and the mountains. (if you can't embrace it, you will be miserable for 3 months straight)

I honestly am happy with either mountains OR the beach. There's lots of places with neither.
I'm south of Houston, but work literally at Hobby Airport. Hobby is about 3 miles inside of Houston city limits from the route I enter from. So I barely touch the huge expanse of the metropolis. Equal distance from Hobby to Surfside beach.

 

[Upshifter]

Definitely flat.
Houston is coastal. So you embrace the tropical weather (hot & humid), and the beach, rather than the cool dry air and the mountains. (if you can't embrace it, you will be miserable for 3 months straight)

I honestly am happy with either mountains OR the beach. There's lots of places with neither.
I'm south of Houston, but work literally at Hobby Airport. Hobby is about 3 miles inside of Houston city limits from the route I enter from. So I barely touch the huge expanse of the metropolis. Equal distance from Hobby to Surfside beach.

Pics like that do encourage reconsideration.

Nothing wrong with Houston. Just normal big city stuff, but scaled up & spread across an unending landscape of concrete. Don’t see too much crime or depravity, though.

40 mins to anywhere and a special kind of traffic that is absolutely manic
(Houston GPS instructions:
STOP!!!!!
wait…….wait…….. wait………..
GOOOOOO!!!!!!
TURN NOW!!!!!!!
85MPH!!!!!
STOP!!!!!!)

But chief complaint: too easy to breathe at sea level

 

[snakebitten]

Don't mistake anything I have said for vouching for living in Houston.

I have spent my life moving farther and farther out of Houston as it expanded.
The first half was moving North from it. Which is much harder because it expanded in that direction FAST and FAR.

Then about 30 years ago, switched to the south side because you could find rural closer out.

I won't live where helicopters are flying at night with spotlights on. (Leo in the air) I do have to earn a living, so in daylight I venture in to the concrete jungle, but run for away from it before dark.

I personally think crime in Houston is unforgivably high. Harris County just doesn't have the political will to thwart it.

 

[Boatwaco]

Yup. I don’t live in Houston either. I don’t live in the Austin city limits either. But I do have family inside Houston city limits. They seem to be ok with living there.

 

[EcoXLT]

For me I don‘t think I’d be alive after one summer there.

 

[snakebitten]

For me I don‘t think I’d be alive after one summer there.

It's the air conditioning capital of the world for a good reason.

Folks probably don't spend much time outside in Fargo during the coldest 3 months. Houston is the same thing in reverse. You simply stay indoors from 10am <>5PM July through August.

Or, do the opposite of snowbirds and head for the Rockies or the U.P. for the summer.

 

[EcoXLT]

It's the air conditioning capital of the world for a good reason.

Folks probably don't spend much time outside in Fargo during the coldest 3 months. Houston is the same thing in reverse. You simply stay indoors from 10am <>5PM July through August.

Or, do the opposite of snowbirds and head for the Rockies or the U.P. for the summer.

I’m going through the Fargo scenario right now in Idaho. 4 degrees. Lots of times I’ve wished I was back home in California.

 

[snakebitten]

California climate offerings are a tall bar to meet.
The place can ruin you in that respect.

Maybe Hawaii? Or the Caribbean?
Not many places, I suspect.

 

[bluelight]

I dunno. Everyone says I'm doing it backwards. I went south for the summer to Louisiana (2022) and Alabama (2023) than home to Alaska for the winter. 🙃

 

[Boatwaco]

Hey, on the bright side you were going against the traffic flow!

 

[scarygary94]

OK If l that's the case why does ford racing sell only for 1st gen ecoboost ford racing turbos that ford says it boost stock engine to around 750hp look I know u think ur newer F150 is better but it's not stop lieing to make u look like someone that knows but ur not.

 

[scarygary94]

Not familiar with tuning and all that but it seems like with as much is going on the truck it should make more than 500hp at the crank even on pump gas. Whether it’s safe or not is a whole different deal but I feel like it should make more than that. Obviously want it to be as safe as I can get it, just disappointing to hear

Lies frist gen 3.5 ecoboost is still sold today and has been in the all new Ford GT super car u guys know nothing

 

[Boatwaco]

guys know nothing

Welcome to the forum. Happy you’re here now to educate us! 🤠