pt_ranger_v8
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Nothing fancy in here. :flipa:
This truck originally started life as a 351/c6 cclb, and it sucked:wtf:. Previous owner had a ~4" lift on it, blocks in the rear, shackle reverse/drop front hangar bracket up front. He also did some ghetto rehab inside, and swapped beds.
After driving it for a few months, I swapped in an idi7.3/zf5 combo. Increased my mileage from 6 to 14mpg. I also swapped axles, since the 4.10's we're killing my top end.
Since the thing rode like a buckboard with stock lifted leaf springs, I gabbed up some coil buckets and radius arms. Basically, I just copied the bronco/f150 design of the earlier years, and used lift coils for a coil sprung super duty.
Had to fab some step bars for the wife & curtain climbers.
Built a rear bumper, added some lights.
And I've been driving it like this for a couple of years. Stumbled across a 'deal' on an e-superduty, engine, tranny, all the wiring, just go pull it. :thumbup:
Now I'm in the process of going through the new block, end goals are 380-400hp, and dead nuts reliability for the next 300k miles.
Figuring on honing the cylinders, new rings/crank bearings
17*HPOP
Not OBS style intake
Either 38R or t4 style turbo
Stage 1 160-180/100 injectors
Tunes
Head studs/valve springs/push rods
Inter cooler
After I get the engine built, if I can, I'd like to run it on my zf5 while I get cash for a BTS build on my e4od. Not a huge fan of only having 4 speeds, but, if reliability will be there and mileage won't suffer, I'll run it.
Pics to come when I'm near a computer, and not at work
imp:.
So far, I've done all the work except rebuild the zf5 and bend the tube fore the coil buckets. For a dumb redneck, I guess it's doing alright :flipa:
Some of the needed things:
Engine wiring harness
Tranny wiring harness
Under hood wiring harness
Turbo
Injectors
HPOP
All the stuff I listed I want to do to this thing :doh:.
This truck originally started life as a 351/c6 cclb, and it sucked:wtf:. Previous owner had a ~4" lift on it, blocks in the rear, shackle reverse/drop front hangar bracket up front. He also did some ghetto rehab inside, and swapped beds.
After driving it for a few months, I swapped in an idi7.3/zf5 combo. Increased my mileage from 6 to 14mpg. I also swapped axles, since the 4.10's we're killing my top end.
Since the thing rode like a buckboard with stock lifted leaf springs, I gabbed up some coil buckets and radius arms. Basically, I just copied the bronco/f150 design of the earlier years, and used lift coils for a coil sprung super duty.
Had to fab some step bars for the wife & curtain climbers.
Built a rear bumper, added some lights.
And I've been driving it like this for a couple of years. Stumbled across a 'deal' on an e-superduty, engine, tranny, all the wiring, just go pull it. :thumbup:
Now I'm in the process of going through the new block, end goals are 380-400hp, and dead nuts reliability for the next 300k miles.
Figuring on honing the cylinders, new rings/crank bearings
17*HPOP
Not OBS style intake
Either 38R or t4 style turbo
Stage 1 160-180/100 injectors
Tunes
Head studs/valve springs/push rods
Inter cooler
After I get the engine built, if I can, I'd like to run it on my zf5 while I get cash for a BTS build on my e4od. Not a huge fan of only having 4 speeds, but, if reliability will be there and mileage won't suffer, I'll run it.
Pics to come when I'm near a computer, and not at work
imp:. So far, I've done all the work except rebuild the zf5 and bend the tube fore the coil buckets. For a dumb redneck, I guess it's doing alright :flipa:
Some of the needed things:
Engine wiring harness
Tranny wiring harness
Under hood wiring harness
Turbo
Injectors
HPOP
All the stuff I listed I want to do to this thing :doh:.
