^^^^ ??? Whaat?? ^^^

Sorry, i tried speech to text in my truck. i fixed it.

Stock is best!

In the end, it all boils down to the EPA and the Clean Water Act.

They don’t have to turn you in. If we connect our CDS laptop to an engine for diagnostics, it downloads the information and uploads it to Mercury. It’s out of our control.

No one ever reads the fine print.

Well now that sucks. Crazy they do that but most OEM's in the auto are tightening up. Does Mercury really go after individuals?

There has to be more to the story. If it was only for Emissions then I would think that the aftermarket company's would not be allowed to reprogram mercury's inboards. But if you search online there are still a few companies advertising inboard ECM reprogramming and everything for Verado's has vanished.

The auto industry has been trying to lock people out of the computers for a while now claiming its "proprietary" and the software belongs to them. GM has successfully done it so far on the new Vette...as far as i know no one has cracked the ecm on that yet so people are forced to resort to external engine controls to modify the car. And im sure more if coming down the pipeline with the rest of the cars/trucks. If there ever was a time to claim that high performance is dead....like i remember Hot Rod claiming back in the mid 80's when EFI started coming out, it just might be true this time!!
The only saving grace we have is that we have a right to fix our own stuff...so they cant fully lock us out.....but im sure what ever device you get to read the computer wont let you modify anything to change stuff like an HP Tuners etc.....
I think if this keeps going then high performance modding will start falling behind until the computer system architecture is replaced with newer stuff and then the car/truck makers will let people access the old stuff...but your probably looking at 5-10 years between changes im guessing...

I agree that they are trying their hardest! finally getting stuff out of factory with good hp now! All of the big power cars are using Motech. I should of bit the bullet on 450r from factory.

Well, sell the 400 if you do have them and upgrade to the 450. We'll help ya spend your money.
IMO, there probably is a low demand for any tuning on these engines yet for most people. As it seems nearly everyone who buys them are opting for the extended warranty anyways.