My Build Thread

jwlandry · May 21, 2012

Milford said:
Where did you get your valve springs at?

They come from Doug. There are some he specked out.

jwlandry · May 21, 2012

So after reviewing the results from getting the block soniced. We have decided to bore the cylinder out to 4.185 from a stock 4.11. That makes the pistons .075 over. Which all equals to a 460 cubic inch 7.3.

Groomzybanshee · May 21, 2012

jwlandry · May 21, 2012

Not to be a d!ck but.....

Why not?

97stoker350 · May 21, 2012

:badidea:

T444E02 · May 21, 2012

:whs:

TARM · May 21, 2012

Choupique108 said:
Been awhile since I've updated this thread. Everything is going as planned. A little slower then though but that's all my fault.

The motor has been to the machine shop to get the wall thicknesses checked so we can see how large we can go on the piston. The dampner has been ordered from fluid dampner. It's on back order till June 13th. The piston pins are being made as well. They will be 125grams lighter then stock. From 390 down to 266. There was also a flexplate show up in Florida last week as well.

The pistons should be getting made in the next few weeks and a torque plate is on the way from California.

Only thing left to figure out is a cam and how we are going to do the intake plentums. Everything else for the most part is laid out.

Turbo is a 4294 that I bought from PowerstrokeJunkie about a yr ago
Mount will be a turbonetics t4
Injectors will be 300/200s from Tim @ PIS
tuning will be from Doug then live tuned from johnathon at beans or bill at php
Trans will be BTS or one from ATF down there by Doug.

I take as you are having them made they are custom? Or are you speaking of having them machined i.e. butterflied and radius the bowl edge? I can think of a few things that would be nice to mod vs oem.

Groomzybanshee · May 21, 2012

Choupique108 said:
Not to be a d!ck but.....

Why not?

What do you think your gonna gain?
Weaker cylinder walls?

2002FordPwr · May 22, 2012

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jwlandry · May 22, 2012

All cylinder walls was .300+. So by going .075 that means your only taking .0375 per sode in the cylinder. That leaves .2625 of material left. Well over a 1/4". Should be fine.

jwlandry · May 22, 2012

TARM said:
I take as you are having them made they are custom? Or are you speaking of having them machined i.e. butterflied and radius the bowl edge? I can think of a few things that would be nice to mod vs oem.

Will be custom cut. Not stock machined. I'll post pics of the solid model later today.

97stoker350 · May 22, 2012

wondering what power gains your actually gonna see with the few more CI s

TARM · May 23, 2012

Choupique108 said:
Will be custom cut. Not stock machined. I'll post pics of the solid model later today.

larger diameter shallower depth bowl maybe?

ParkerFly · May 23, 2012

97stoker350 said:
wondering what power gains your actually gonna see with the few more CI s

The combo he's running should be a 600+ horse at 444 c.i. That's 1.35 hp/ci if you use 600 hp. So going to 460 should theoretically let him be around 621 hp. So he gains 20-25 hp by going bigger.

jwlandry · May 23, 2012

TARM said:
larger diameter shallower depth bowl maybe?

Larger diameter but not shallower.

PowerstrokeJunkie · May 24, 2012

Tighter squish but more bowl volume? Have you thought about raising the compression any? You're having all the bottom end parts to sustain more forces reliably however i dont think you're going too large on the injectors right? Increasing the compression a couple points to maybe 19:1 or so will make the truck alot peppier off boost and much more responsive. You're already doing alot of out-of-the-box stuff to it so why not?