It does work fine but the SLP pipe and can is the easiest and fastest wake up call done this sled with some great gains.
Most of SLP's power is in the flash itself not the pipe. Also there powerband is actually less in some areas of the powerband from what I have read where as Dynoport/HTG(which is a dynoport pipe with HTG's own little mods) makes an all around power gain and more. Also Dynoport uses a good gauge material whereas SLP is thin and tends to break/crack from the research I have done which lead me to the dynoport and got lucky found one second hand in great shape/low miles for under half the price of new.
Here are a couple of dyno results I have found in the past. The first one tests the dynoport with the slp flash but I would refrain from using that combo because the slp flash actually leans it out in certain areas.
Its actually better for a couple of more Hp the one tested at dynotech had the slp reflash with the dynoport pipe, slp airbox and Vforce reeds had 165.5 hp with 117 pounds of torque on pump gas at 7400rpm now with the slp pipe it was about 162hp but with a broader powerband hitting it at 7700rpm The stock pipe ecu reflash vforce reeds slp airbox hit 160hp the huge increase has alot to do with the slp reflash dynoport claims you don't need it and there right but with it there pipe even performs better The dyno port pipe is on my wish list this year trying to find a used one cheap I ain't shelling out 750 for a pipe thats been out 4 years seen used ones last year for 350 400 did not have the scratch I got the timbersled air box slp head Vforce reeds with stock exhaust clutched for 7200rpm no reflash till the pipe I was pulling a 115 on the lake end of last year I can't wait for the pipe its fast now I can only imagine what it would pull with the pipe by the way this is for the 05 fusion not the 06 the 06 has like 5 extra hp because of the secondary injectors.
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We started out with a box stock sled to find a base line, we did 3 runs the best was
142hp at 7300rpm and 101.8 fpt at 7300rpm.
The next set of runs, we upgraded the stock exhaust system to the SLP y pipe ,pipe and silencer,which I will add lowered the wieght of this sled to the tune of 14 Ibs .we also added a Timberline intake which replaces the large and very heavy stock Polaris box, this swap out saved another 6.5 Ibs
For a very nice total of 20.5 Ibs.
For anyone not familiar with wieght reduction on a sled 20Ibs equals another 2 HP.
So with all the new goodies Installed We again did 3 runs , with the best run showing
144.8hp at 7200rpm and a nice gain to 105.7 fpt at the same 7200.
The nice thing about the addition of this pipe combo wasen't so much the increase in torque, but it was the fact that when we tested both combo's hot, the stock setup fell off hard when hot where the SLP combo continued to make power
The hot runs where.
stock hot run 135hp at 7200rpm and 98.4 fpt
The SLP setup held the power to the tune of
143 hp at 7200rpm and 104.8 fpt
The sled is now going to the dealer to get the mapping changed to lean it out .this sled is running mega rich with the best run of the day showing a best BSFC of 0.950.
The biggest benifit for this customer was that he now knows that he's clutching is way off the mark, as all last season he ran the sled at 7900rpm
In every run we made the power drop after 7500rpm was extreme, with the power showing just around the 80hp mark.
The owner remarked after finding this out "No wonder it was such a DOG!"
We will have this sled back for the final runs early next week to finish this up and I will post the results.
