5.0L F-150 getting Ford Performance Calibration Tune

[513Mugsy]

@JohnMcClane

Yeah I know this. But I only use tow/haul when with a trailer. And I find sport holds the gears way to long for normal driving. But in general it doesn't bother me. I just don't hear it right now when it does it.

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[Sigma1914]

I think it’s been pretty well documented Tow/Haul or sport mode deactivate it. Obviously a tune would too.

Or you can go with TT’s, Supercharged or Procharged and have it deactivated.

 

[gagliano7]

Let’s hope the ford tune gives the option to turn off cd. On the gm trucks you can just buy a plug in to deactivate cd. I wish someone would do that for the 5.0. One they would make a good profit and you can just unplug it if you have to go to the dealer.

 

[JCsTruck]

Let’s hope the ford tune gives the option to turn off cd. On the gm trucks you can just buy a plug in to deactivate cd. I wish someone would do that for the 5.0. One they would make a good profit and you can just unplug it if you have to go to the dealer.

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He’s talking about cylinder deactivation, not stop/start.

 

[JCsTruck]

Opps, sorry about that. The only way I know of deactivating it is by using tow haul or sport mode but if he’s worried about reliability then I don’t think there is anything to worry about because Fords system is different than GM’s system and since year 2021 when it came out it hasn’t had any issues that I know of. It also seems to add a significant amount of fuel savings if you drive conservatively because it activates on no load and light load conditions.

 

[Beef_Stew]

Hoping these gets released in the near future. The power gains are secondary to me behind deleting 4 cylinder mode, adjusting tire size, and better transmission shifts

 

[CarbonizedGreyLariat21]

Hoping these gets released in the near future. The power gains are secondary to me behind deleting 4 cylinder mode, adjusting tire size, and better transmission shifts

I check this forum weekly in case it drops, cant wait.

 

[ttnuagmada]

Sport mode to me is fine for driving around town if you're not maintaining a constant speed for very long, but if you're doing much cruising in the 50ish range, it's just going to sit in the middle gear range. it won't use 10th until you're at 70. I get why it's like that, but I wish Ford had some sort of mode that was a middle-ground between Sport and Normal, because Normal will happily lug up a hill in 10th gear at 50mph while Sport wants to be in 6th gear. Getting it tuned got it a lot closer to the type of behavior I was wanting, but something about this transmission just feels disconnected from the driver still.

I've been driving a 25 Sierra 5.3 SLT 2wd around for the last few days while my truck is in the shop (got reversed into in a parking lot), and GM's transmission tuning just seems miles ahead of Fords. I used to have a tuned 2012 5.3 with the 6 speed, and the shifting was so predictable you could practically tell the transmission exactly what to do with accelerator input. This 2025 honestly doesn't feel a whole lot different than my 2012 besides having more gears. I took it to Dallas yesterday and don't remember once thinking "why did this truck just do that?".

I'll be able to assess it better once I get my truck back, but I feel like this GMC is just better about knowing what gear to be in when you give it a little bit more throttle in mid-low throttle situations where you're just trying to gain a little speed. It's like it does a better job of knowing what you want, and is much more happy to downshift a gear if you give it a tad more throttle, so the power delivery just feels more consistent. With the F150, I feel like I have to give it more pedal than I think it should to make it downshift. It forces you to be more deliberate about it, but sort of "overshoots" what you were going for. Like it either wants to lug along or take-off with not as much in between as there should be.

Anyway, that being said, the newer GM interiors may look decent in pictures, but this is where Ford has them beat. This GMC is an SLT with leather, but there is still just something cheap and plasticy feeling about it. I don't like the basic layout of things either (like cup holders). Driving it doesn't make me want to move back to a GM, it just makes me angry that Ford can't figure out how to take advantage of this transmission.

 

[gagliano7]

Sport mode to me is fine for driving around town if you're not maintaining a constant speed for very long, but if you're doing much cruising in the 50ish range, it's just going to sit in the middle gear range. it won't use 10th until you're at 70. I get why it's like that, but I wish Ford had some sort of mode that was a middle-ground between Sport and Normal, because Normal will happily lug up a hill in 10th gear at 50mph while Sport wants to be in 6th gear. Getting it tuned got it a lot closer to the type of behavior I was wanting, but something about this transmission just feels disconnected from the driver still.

I've been driving a 25 Sierra 5.3 SLT 2wd around for the last few days while my truck is in the shop (got reversed into in a parking lot), and GM's transmission tuning just seems miles ahead of Fords. I used to have a tuned 2012 5.3 with the 6 speed, and the shifting was so predictable you could practically tell the transmission exactly what to do with accelerator input. This 2025 honestly doesn't feel a whole lot different than my 2012 besides having more gears. I took it to Dallas yesterday and don't remember once thinking "why did this truck just do that?".

I'll be able to assess it better once I get my truck back, but I feel like this GMC is just better about knowing what gear to be in when you give it a little bit more throttle in mid-low throttle situations where you're just trying to gain a little speed. It's like it does a better job of knowing what you want, and is much more happy to downshift a gear if you give it a tad more throttle, so the power delivery just feels more consistent. With the F150, I feel like I have to give it more pedal than I think it should to make it downshift. It forces you to be more deliberate about it, but sort of "overshoots" what you were going for. Like it either wants to lug along or take-off with not as much in between as there should be.

Anyway, that being said, the newer GM interiors may look decent in pictures, but this is where Ford has them beat. This GMC is an SLT with leather, but there is still just something cheap and plasticy feeling about it. I don't like the basic layout of things either (like cup holders). Driving it doesn't make me want to move back to a GM, it just makes me angry that Ford can't figure out how to take advantage of this transmission.

I had a 2018 Sierra 6.2 8 speed and the sifts were perfect. But I also have say my 2023 5.0 10 speed is also perfect. Sucks yours doesn’t shift right. I drove my friends 2025 Silverado 5.3 and it felt really sluggish compared to my 5.0.

 

[ttnuagmada]

I had a 2018 Sierra 6.2 8 speed and the sifts were perfect. But I also have say my 2023 5.0 10 speed is also perfect. Sucks yours doesn’t shift right. I drove my friends 2025 Silverado 5.3 and it felt really sluggish compared to my 5.0.

The one I'm in feels alright just because it's 2wd I think, so the power/weight is probably not too far off from my FX4. It feels like it's got similar or maybe even better pull down low, but then loses steam. The 5.0 definitely has another level.

I don't know that mine doesn't shift right so much as I'm just hard to please. I was in a 3.5 for a little bit before I got my 5.0, and I think the low-end torque made it feel "right" to me. Almost like the transmission has the same logic for both motors when it should be more aggressive with trying to keep the 5,0 in its powerband when you give it a little throttle. To be fair, it feels good in Sport mode for the most part, I just don't like the way it will just sit in the mid gear range when you're cruising 50-60.

I'll probably get a PedalMonster to play with, I'm sure some of it is pedal/throttle related.

 

[Dakar09]

Get the Banks, you will be very surprised with the 5.0 after that

 

[AlexGates]

Get the Banks, you will be very surprised with the 5.0 after that

I know some people look down on them, but I am pleased with mine so far. I have mine set fairly low City 3-4, just enough the get rid of the accelerator lag/delay, w/o the pedal being overly sensitive. Which was perfectly fine, except when you also drive other vehicles. A chunk of change though, to get rid of a delay.

 

[Henfield]

@JohnMcClane

Yeah I know this. But I only use tow/haul when with a trailer. And I find sport holds the gears way to long for normal driving. But in general it doesn't bother me. I just don't hear it right now when it does it.

I've described TH as mini sport mode. It doesn't seem to skip gears either.

 

[ttnuagmada]

I know some people look down on them, but I am pleased with mine so far. I have mine set fairly low City 3-4, just enough the get rid of the accelerator lag/delay, w/o the pedal being overly sensitive. Which was perfectly fine, except when you also drive other vehicles. A chunk of change though, to get rid of a delay.

The people who look down on them don't seem to even understand their purpose. It's like they think the people that get them are doing it to make their truck faster.

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