cfd911
Elite Explorer
- Joined
- April 13, 2006
- Messages
- 118
- Reaction score
- 6
- City, State
- chicago IL
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2017 xlt 4wd
Ok so I am gonna post a thread on what i recently did and why . So after looking up active grill shutters and what they do , I decided to do a mod on them . So i removed my front bumper facia ,( fairly easy ) and removed and modified my active grill shutters. Why ? Simply to give better cooling . I inow people are are gonna say why , the engineers designed them that way . Well are these the same engineers who designed The PTU without liquid cooling on ALL PTUs ? Are these the same engineers who designed some PTU’s without drain and or fill plugs? The same engineers who said it is life time fluid. Well 2015 explorers NO active grill shutters! 2016 and newer AGShutters. Sports PIU no shutters ! My son bought a 2022 explorer ST active grill shutters. So if anyone thinks the engineers have figured it out Bulls*it!!!! My point is this do your homework wisely , don’t listen to people on this site who say ohhhhh don’t it the engineers know best hahah!!! So i thought I’d share some of my mods with you ! If you don’t mind. 1. Remote start . 2. Police secure idle. 3. Front door tethers. 4. Remove auto shut down 5. Remove double honk . 6 added Livernois 87 performance tune ( not bad much peppier even on just 87) 7. added derale 13224 additional trans cooler . 8 . Removed 4 middle active grill shutters top and bottom . I have a 2017 3.5 xlt very happy with my mods .