Falling On Some Luck

My Livernois Experience: Tuning my 2.0T 

It started out as any other normal, Tuesday morning.  I woke up at 6:30am, doing my normal routine before heading into work.  I remember the drive into work vividly, I got cut off by a Chevy Impala and as I watched him pass me leading up to the point where he forced himself over, I thought to myself “there’s no point in hitting the gas, the turbo lag will make attempting to speed up useless”.

                 

As being on forums and hearing about tuning solutions and performance parts coming out in the future, I called around to tuning shops in Ohio & Michigan that morning.  After no avail, I gave up on trying to find a local tuner or even a shop drivable to go too since the 2.0T EcoBoost wasn’t supported yet by SCT. 

                 

Looking on the forums, as this is part of my normal routine after getting situated for the day at work, I saw CDC posted about aesthetic components they might offer in the future.  I decided to call them and see if they were planning on offering tuning in the future too.  Granted, you have to remember, I’m at work making these calls.  They were probably the fifth or sixth shop I had called. As I’m talking to these shops, I’m trying to use the least obvious words possible as everyone in the office can hear what I’m saying normally, since my voice tends to carry.  After speaking with CDC, they recommended me to Livernois Motorsports since they had previous success tuning the F150 EcoBoost, Taurus SHO, among other Ford EcoBoost models. 

                 

So, after waiting ten minutes or so, I picked up the phone and dialed Livernois up.  I asked the same question, I had asked all the other tuning shops previously “I have the 2.0T EcoBoost Fusion and I was wondering if you were currently offering tuning software or any tuning support for my vehicle?” 

After being placed on hold, he got back on the phone and told me “No, we don’t support that vehicle at this time”.

I’m thinking to myself “Of course...”  To my surprise, he takes my information down and asks if I’d be interested in being a Beta Tester for the tune when they eventually want to do a trial run.  I make sure to tell him I’m in Columbus, Ohio and not close to Detroit, MI time-wise (it’s roughly a three hour trip), he states that fine so I give my credentials as he asks.  

After I hung up the phone, I’m sitting thinking, as by now you can see I do a lot of that, “It’s all about the waiting game Ray (yes, I refer to myself in third person), be patient, parts will come available soon”.

               

 I go back to working, well sort of actually finally start working after an hour and half of making calls and doing some things in between (mornings are usually slower than afternoons).   In the middle of actually getting something accomplished, my cell phone rings.  It’s Livernois calling about my car and wanting to know if they can have it as a Beta test vehicle, TODAY…

Part 1 of 3, To be Continued…