brucelinc

OMG....glad you are OK.

I agree about FORScan.     Another thing:   If you know anyone who has an SCT device, it can be used to access your vehicle info even if it is married to another vehicle.  I have used mine to pull the codes for my Mustang and even had a friend borrow it to pull info from an SHO.    You can only tune the car it is married to but you can access other's vehicle strategy codes, etc.

My 3.0 Continental was tuned using an SCT X4 tuner.    I had it tuned over a year ago by AJPturbo.   bradleyfredrickfischer@yahoo.com   Brad is an SCT dealer and he asked SCT to support my car's strategy code which they promptly did.     I had originally asked Torrie but he basically told me no.   I am happy with Brad's tune.   It improved the quarter mile time by about 8 tenths and improved transmission behavior 100%.    He could tweak the tune further but I now have a Mustang that I am spending more time with than the Conti.

Good results for the conditions.   Trap speed tells me that it is making good power.   When stock, my Continental ran 13.56 @ 103 in conditions much like you experienced.

Ford:

Trucks  (Ranger, Bronco, F series)

SUVs (Expedition, Explorer)

CUVs (Edge, Escape, Focus Active)

sports car (Mustang)

Lincoln: 

SUVs (Navigator, Aviator, Nautilus)

sporty Luxury (MKZ replacement on RWD CD6 platform)

Flagship luxury (Continental on stretched RWD CD6 platform)

Look for it on the same platform as the Aviator (CD6). That should mean rear wheel drive which opens up all sorts of possibilities. It will be interesting to see what the name will be. It won't be Zephyr.

I am pretty sure you will see the replacement for the MKZ with a new name on a new platform - not simply renaming and continuing the current model.

I am not sure how law enforcement views running without a front plate in your state.    Front plates are required here in Minnesota but I didn't have one installed on my Continental or my Mustang.   I have driven the Conti for well over a year and never been stopped.    

Excellent results!  What was the DA when you ran?    I checked the weather conditions for that track and it appears you had ideal conditions....maybe even negative DA.   That takes nothing away from your accomplishment, though.   Congratulations.

My seats won't come on in remote-start either.  I've turned the setting off and back to auto.  Shutting down with seats on or off has no impact.   Ambient temps this week have been single-digits.  The heated wheel IS activated however.

 

I recently had a '16 Premier 2.0T rental car.  It didn't have a heated wheel, but I noticed that remote-start wouldn't heat the seats in that vehicle.  It was set to "auto".

 

I mentioned this to a friend with a '15 Fusion Hybrid, and he said his stopped working.  When he looked at settings, his are greyed-out/missing.

 

I mentioned this to my salesperson, and she said her personal MKZ also isn't heating the seats with a remote-start.

 

Does anyone know what's going on?  I'm pretty bummed - this seems to be systemic.  It's one the features I was most looking forward to over my older Fusion Hybrid. I wanted to leave my HVAC off for remote starts so I could heat the seats remotely without excessively burning gas.

There is a TSB out for Continentals.  I suspect your seat module needs reprogrammed.

NHTSA ID: 10099448

TSB ID: SSM 46425

Some 2017 continental vehicles built on or before 14-feb-2017 may exhibit heated seats that are inoperative during a remote start event. reprogram the drivers seat module (dsm) using ids software 104.03 or higher. 

My start engine doesn’t always work. Not sure why. It will try for a couple of minutes and then fail.

I have to play around with it some more see if I can figure a pattern. It seems

to work fine when I’m at home

Could it be that you are not holding your finger on the start icon long enough? 

Most likely scenario:   The MKZ replacement will no longer be on the current Fusion platform.  It will not be called MKZ but there will be a replacement, regardless of what Ford does with the Fusion. 

The danger of excessive use of E85 is that the fuel pump on these diect injection engines cannot pump enough at WOT and the car goes lean. To run higher percentages requires monitoring fuel pressure during the datalogging and tuning process and not exceeding the fuel pump's capability to maintain adequate pressure.

The 2013+ Ecoboost 3.5 can handle up to about 30% ethanol. The 2.7 and 3.0 are capable of much more due to improved fuel systems.

I have run up to 30% with no drop at all in fuel pressure. However, it didn't really gain me anything due to not having enough boost or timing to fully take advantage of it. I have seen SHOs drop ETs by nearly half a second when tuned for a 30% ethanol mix compared to just running E10 93 octane.

Livernois still does not have a performance tune for the 3.0 Continental.   I am very happy with the tune I have from AJP turbo but I have always thought the 1-2 shift was a bit too soft.  It is 100% better than stock but still not as crisp as my old MKS.    My tuner has been working on a Fusion and says he has finally cracked the code to sharpen up that 1-2 shift for me.  I look forward to seeing the results.   Livernois did build a transmission tune for me a few months ago but it was barely any better than stock.

The tuning and datalogging experience with my tuner has been enlightening.  So much of what applied to the 3.5 ecoboost just does not work on the 3.0.   I am not looking for a dragstrip special by any means but I think my Conti has a bit more in it with a quicker 1-2 shift.    We might also try a tune more dedicated to a mix of E85.   The SHO and Fusion Sport guys are getting good results with E85 but it has never really helped my car much.   There is likely some potential there.

The 1995 Linoln Sentinel concept is the one I was talking about.

The name "Corsair" was tradmarked by Ford in August. That may or may not mean anything. They also had a concept called "Sentinel" at one time.

Why wouldn’t it be called the Zephyr?

Because Zephyr is a name that has been discarded 3 times and screams old and cheap.   About a year ago, I met with a Lincoln rep who trains dealers.  He shared some info with me and, so far, all of it has come true - including Lincoln moving back to names,  Ford delaying use of the nine speed transmission and reworking it to work better with their engines, and several other tidbits.

He told me that they had obtained input on the name Zephyr from focus groups.   They found that those who recall the original are too old to drive, those who recall the Mercury Zephyr of the '70s regarded it as a cheap compact that was just a Ford Fairmont and those who recall the 2006 Lincoln Zephyr regarded it as nothing but a Fusion with a different grille.   Bottom line was that the name was viewed negatively by the public as well as by Ford and Lincoln management.

Ford has some new management now so things could change but based on what I was told earlier, the name Zephyr will never be used again. 

Like drolds, I simply cannot fathom Ford getting out of the mid sized sedan business.

Speaking of discontinued nameplates, I have had 2 Thunderbirds, a Lincoln LS and a Lincoln MKS. My Father always had Galaxies, Crown Vics, or Mercurys. We know how to kill nameplates, too!

I suspect the death of the Fusion has been greatly exaggerated. I think you can count on the MKZ replacement being on the new CD6 platform. It most certainly will NOT be called Zephyr.

I have a Continental with the 3.0.  It has a 3.39 gear vs. the 3.16 in the MKZ so it should use a bit more fuel.   With an aftermarket tune, we recently drove from Minneapolis to Dallas and averaged 25.4 on the trip down and 26.7 on the return.  Obviously, that was all highway driving.   Around town, it typically is around 19-20 although I don't do much city driving.  The aftermarket tune did improve the mileage by about 1-1.5 MPG on the highway.

I have taken the car to the dragstrip both in stock form and tuned.  Stock, it ran 13.56 @ 102.6.  Tuned, it ran 12.80 @ 108.7.    The conditions were similar in both cases - pretty hot and humid.  The tune is relatively mild and I have no other modifications. 

I have never used anything but 93 octane fuel, other than experimenting with a mix of 93 and E85 a few times, equaling around 95 octane.  I paid for the top engine so I want top performance.

Yes, when I log in to the "my Lincoln" site, it indicates 2.3 is available. Actually, I am satisfied with 2.0 so I guess I don't really care about the update but I thought it should update via wifi automatically by now.

Yes, completely stock. It was a demo with 4300 miles. 

Congratulations.  You got a very strong MKZ.   

I have auto-updates turned on and the car is connected to WiFi, but it's sitting at version 2.2. Is there a way to force an update over WiFi?

I still have 2.0 in my Continental and also have the auto updates on and have WiFi.   I don't understand why it never updates.   According to the message on the screen, it checked for updates on 11/27/2017 but didn't update.

Hrlinc, those are amazing numbers for a stock MKZ.   I have seen a few 3.0 MKZs run at tracks in my area and also read about every online or magazine review and I have never seen a stock MKZ 3.0 run that well.   At my local tracks, mid to high 13s are normal.    

Is your car 100% stock?

By the way, I was complaining about wheel hop and shared a video that demonstrated it.  I ran at a different track a bit later and didn't have that issue.  Maybe I just found the sweet spot for launching it but this one sounds much better:

https://youtu.be/99-lG-74KmI