Tell me I just bought an 08 and ready to do something to it already:tu:

I know it's easy to tell you to spend the money now since I'm on this side of the computer, but you gotta think, the sooner you get the DPF deleted and the truck tuned, the sooner you get better mileage, and the more your return on investment...:pca1:

I agree
 

I loved my 7.3. It came time to upgrade so I purchased an 09 F250 Crew Lariat with the 6.4. Drop dead gorgeous truck. Two tone Blue/tan. Rides way better than my 2000. Interior is beautiful. Re-design of the F250 was a home run. Motor is smooth, quiet and quick. Then comes the mileage. 10-12 in town, maybe sneak up to 13-14 on the highway. Please don't answer back with "Power"...or "you bought a puller, didn't you?". By any standards this is unacceptable and really kills what is an otherwise awesome machine. The truck is good enough that i will live with the mileage. But constantly filling up more frequently than one should is getting pricey and annoying.
"Just remove the DPF, and tune it !!!"
Correct me if i'm wrong...I thought a law was passed years ago that prohibited dealers from refusing warranty simply because a vehicle had been modified. I thought they had to prove that the particular mod was directly related to the failure before they could refuse warranty.
That being said...I am pretty sure the DPF is different. It is an EPA mandate and Illegal to remove. It may be the only mod that the dealer can refuse warranty...no questions asked?
"Just put it back on when you take it in".
Thats fine and this may be the direction I go. What concerns me is the intended use of these trucks. I would say that most of us spend a fair amount of time pulling on the open road. I'm on the interstate 600 miles from home, or on vacation, etc, and my truck goes down. Replacing the DPF on the road away from home so i can get it towed into a dealer for service work seems unrealistic. I might anyway as the improvement seems huge. Just replacing the DPF might not always be possible before one 's truck goes into the dealer.

Hollow out the DPF, this way its still on but you cant tell anything was done to it. The best of both worlds..

This is a old race car tuner trick thats done with Mustangs and other stockers. Just hollow out the cat with a big drill bit. :tu:

This is a old race car tuner trick thats done with Mustangs and other stockers. Just hollow out the cat with a big drill bit. :tu:[/QUOTE]

has any one on here actually done this on a newer truck

If you hollow out the DPF,:td: your trurk will go to limp mode !!! You'll lose power & you'll have to go to the dealer & DISH-OUT lots of $$$

You must run a tuner that deletes the DPF.

I dont see a way around it, even if you hollowed the DPF out, and you did have to take the truck to the dealer under warranty, you would have to put it back to stock tune
and then the truck wont run right anyway according to Gunman41mag.

I guess the only way this would work is for people with no warranty and are worried about not having the DPF in place. If I had no warranty to worry about, I would hollow it out and get a tuner. Diesel engines are exempt from emission testing in the state I live in.

IF you have a TUNER, then you could remove the DPF !!! But BLOODSPORT wanted to hollow out the DPF with-out a tuner :scare2:!!! THAT WOULD CAUSE PROBLEMS, & once you take it to the dealer, the dealer will find out what you did. MAKE SURE YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK so you don't lose your WARRENTY !!!

What DPf delete kit would you guys recomend?? I was looking into spartan or Sct live wire but don't know, there are so many of them out there would like to know what ones have been proven by by people first hand!!!