supercharged 5.0 true fire 98 explorer sport

hi everyone, my name is tim . i live in selkirk, manitoba, canada and as if this date that i am posting this, i am 36 years old.

i bought my sport in jan 05 from a local ford dealer. it had 111,000KM's on it. this is the second sport i have owned. it was sitting on the lot for about 8 months before i came along. i am the third owner (i was able to track down the person that traded it in, and they got it from a friend, who bought it new in 98).

i started to do a few things to it after i first got it, then i found this site, and all hell broke lose! i've never been satisfied with something the everyone else has, so i started to tinker with it even more.

mods include

interior

installed factory tilt, cruise, overhead console, auto dimming mirror, full length console, with a message center (it didn't have these from factory).

white face with blue flames indigo gauge covers (they light up blue)
blue l.e.d. everything
white l.e.d. interior lights
Kenwood DDX392 Touch Screen Head Unit
alpine 4 channel amp (all four speakers)
boston acoustic front and rear speakers
alpine mono amp (for sub)
2 12 inch jl audio subs
rockford fosgate cap
passenger side one touch window down mod.
custom transfer case shifter
tripple a pillar gauge pod, housing autometer boost, Innovate LC-1 wideband, and oil pressure gauge
12v power inverter with 120v plug in a 2 usb plugs built into the center console

exterior

BMW E46 projectors, mounted into stock housings using clear lens
6000K HID head lights
angel eye "driving" lights, with 8000k h.i.d.'s
clear parking/corner lights
billet grill (powder coated by Turdle)
blacked out ford emblems
custom front steel 95-98 bumper, with 4 inch round tubes welded in for driving lights
shaved radio antenna
shaved roof rack
black euro tall lights
l.e.d. license plate lights
smoked out 3rd break light
lund rear tailgate spoiler/wing (formally from the truck "blackjack" owned by EF member Spas)
hand made roll pan (made from 3 1/2 rear bumpers, with 1/4 inch diamond plate on the top, and it is removable)
aluminum T/A differential griddle/cover (powder coated by Turdle)
Motegi Mr107 20' rims
goodyear wrangler hp p245/50 r20
1 1/4 wheel spacer in the rear, 3/8 in front
and most noticeable, black with blue pearl paint, and blue true fire (ground effects are black with blue pearl as well)

Suspension

2 inch lowering blocks in the rear, reverse TT in the front (2 inch as well)
Explorer Express rear sway bar
4 door leaf springs
rancho rs9000 adjustable rear shocks
03-05 sport trac spindles with drilled and slotted rotors

performance

5L swap
347 stroker
TFS twisted wedge alum heads
comp gold 1.6 rockers
comp cams CCA-35-556-8 nitro cam
heavily modified edelbrock victor jr air gap intake (which serves as a valley pan now)
eaton m122 supercharger (metco 2.70 pulley, and ASP 8 rib 7 1/4 crank pulley) with custom made mount with bell intercooler core
8 rib serpentine belt conversion using pulleys from a 7.3 powerstroke
custom made 3 1/2 inch throttle body elbow
accufab 75mm throttle body
4 inch intake pipe
PMASS MH90 90mm Universal 3000 KG/HR MAF
amsoil cone filter
F.A.S.T. 60lb injectors
edelbrock fuel rails, trick flow specialties fuel pressure regulator with summit racing fuel pressure gauge
walbro 255lph fuel pump
1/2 inch steel braided fuel pressure line from tank to rail using 8AN fittings
torque monster headers
2 1/2 duel pipes with flowpro duel in and out 2 1/2 single muffler
accel extreme 9000 ceramic 45 degree plug wires with boot protectors
4R70W w/2600 stall with J mod
tuff stuff 200a alternator
tuning made possible with sct pro-racer package, and tuned with major help from member [MENTION=102869]Dono[/MENTION] and [MENTION=81804]4pointslow[/MENTION]
flex a lite duel 12 inch electric fans
big 3 upgrade (4 gauge wires)
meziere innercooler water pump
2 froozenboost innercooler rads

Transfer case

4406 manual shift from a 97 F150
modified stock trans cross member to accept 93 mustang 5L polyurethane tans mount
double cardan rear drive shaft

because of all the "fun" i had doing the bodywork, and some other things to my truck, i have nick named it "evil dora" or if you like, just plane "evil"!
and now the thank yous

my buddy gord leiss, who let this thing sit in his garage for 3 months while i did the body work to it. he also gave me a hand with some of the prep work, and painted it for me

kevin willson for doing the true fire http://affordableairbrushing.ca/

Joe Bukoski for letting me do the 5L/4406 swap in his garage

now people from this site, weather they knew it or not, they helped

BIG THANKS to tara a.k.a. explorersport77 for pictures of her truck. wouldn't been able to build the roll pan with out them!

ExplorerSport77's X "Hotness"

jon a.k.a. Turdle for selling me some real swanky rear shackles, as well as powder coating the diff cover and sending them up to canada. as well as much needed info on v8, and 4406 swaps as well as doing the grill and showing me how its done.

don aka dono for the help with the tuning, and wideband, as well as the supercharger

andy aka ahodges for some parts, and any help i needed for all the go faster goodies

5.0 swap - w/ 4406

jad2411 for finding me a link for my hidden antenna

ryan a.k.a. MustangP51 for doing his write up on making l.e.d.'s for interior lights, and how to make projectors

P51's HID Headlight (Projector) and Fog Conversion (PICS)

and N3ELZ cardomain page for L.E.D. switch and cruise pod mods

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/296394/2002-ford-ranger-regular-cab/page-6
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/296394/2002-ford-ranger-regular-cab/page-12
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/296394/2002-ford-ranger-regular-cab/page-23

bob a.k.a. rwenzing for showing me speedhut's sit for the gauges

Gauges, Custom Gauges, Tachometers, Speedometers, Shift Light, Pod

Buzz4x4 for his write up on blacking out ford emblems

How to Make Your Own Custom Ford Emblems

the late aldive for his write up on one touch down passengers window mod

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141027&highlight=touch+passengers+window+mod

BIG COUNTRY, for his write up on how to install a auto dimming mirror

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84968

BIG COUNTRY, 98formulaLS1, and Ryon40 for there write ups on how to install a message center

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=225017&highlight=BIG+COUNTRY
http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80670&highlight=message+center
http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245085&highlight=Ryon40

MountaineerGreen for his 4406 swap write up and "Custom" Driveshaft for a 4406 and 4" Superlift on the Cheap " (even tho its lowered

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166726&highlight=awd+4x4+swap
http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185232

Simon, aka blueka for his "pickle" thread, and help anytime i picked the phone up the phone on the 5L swap

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=271813

Jon, aka 4pointslow for any MAJOR technical advice i have needed

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219092

i wish i could find who did the write up on the overhead console install, but here is the link

http://www.explorer4x4.com/overhead.htm

Russ aka NICE59FORDF100 for his help on the wiring, and what to watch out for electronically.

hopefully one day, i will be able to help people on here just as much as the people that i have mentioned above!

plus you know you have done something right when.....

your truck (as well as corkey) wins truck of the month

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums//showthread.php?t=296023

is the feature truck on the fun hump day radio show (starts roughly around the 30 min mark)

http://explorerforum.podbean.com/2011/03/23/19-vroom-zoomboom/

and you drive 26 hours ONE WAY to the carlisle all ford nationals in june 2010 and 2011, and grab second place in the s.u.v. all category!

then in 2014 you go back to the same show you have been to 5 years in a row (nothing by most, but its one hell of a long drive) and take first!

 

[Dono]

No issue pulling some timing Tim. My motor started pinging more as soon as the weather cooled off also. If its happening to both of us, it must be normal, for whatever reason.

That engine crank spinny jig thingy sounds really cool. Im not sure that you have a motor issue though, my oil pressure is the same as yours. That would mean that if your motor isn't right, mine might not be right either. I don't want to think about that.

Anyway (On that painful possibility) , I'm off to bartend a New Years event. Happy New Year everybody!

 

[Rick]

No issue pulling some timing Tim. My motor started pinging more as soon as the weather cooled off also. If its happening to both of us, it must be normal, for whatever reason.

Winter blend fuel could be one issue. Another could be that you're running leaner with the super cold air.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Winter blend fuel could be one issue. Another could be that you're running leaner with the super cold air.

never thought of the fuel. well, i did sorta, but not this time. yea, because winter gas is pretty crappy. cant say lean however. wideban was pretty much spot on

 

[vroomzoomboom]

snow's gone, that means evil is once again on the prowel.

that and i have been busy as hell as well

That sad day has come

i had to unmodify it however (and some parts i have for sale from it incuding a set of TMH's look in the for sale section, there are a few more parts that i have up as well). some of the parts on it wouldnt pass what is called a safety that we have here. you might ask, well evil has some of the same things (even now some of the parts that came off it). thats because the safety was done years ago when i bought her, and she was stock. if i had to do one now, no dice.
even picked up another "victim". found a 02 sport that i will have to fix, and fumigate and put up for sale so that too shall keep me busy. that and i was tossed on afternoon shift to, so doing things is a tad slower, but it will get done.
and finally, i will just leave this here.

 

[Rick]

You had to bring Evil back to stock or Celly's rig?

 

[vroomzoomboom]

celly's. headlights, turn signals, peddles, i barely got away with the tint on the windows. there were other parts that i took off it as well. dono got the ee rear bar, and grill mesh. one member got the headlights, another took the ee spoilers. didnt want them to go with celly's truck because more then likely who ever bought it (and it has been bought already) wouldnt know what they had and more then likely get destroyed.

 

[delexploder]

That box looks big enough to either be an intake manifold or maybe another charger ?

 

[vroomzoomboom]

 

[Dono]

Cough, cough........I sooooo wanna say.

 

[delexploder]

Lmao come on man just a peek

 

[4pointslow]

Your truck is gorgeous!

 

[shucker1]

You had to bring Evil back to stock or Celly's rig?

After all the work I have watched you put into Evil and Dono's rig that would be totally "Cheesy" to have to bring them back to stock.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Lmao come on man just a peek

......well, ok. just one

Your truck is gorgeous!

LOL, i was just thinking. the last time you saw it in person.....was the rear view mirror....off in the distance lol

After all the work I have watched you put into Evil and Dono's rig that would be totally "Cheesy" to have to bring them back to stock.

if i was forced to do that, i would probably set it on fire, real fire. i had a bronco 2 in my early 20's that i put a 3 inch body lift, a 4 inch suspension lift, and had 33's on it. when i put it up for sale, i took everything out of it. everyone that knew me, and the truck couldnt believe how funny it looked stock. even me.

 

[ahodges]

Would it fit on my truck?

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Would it fit on my truck?

with a little modifying it would, yes!

 

[ahodges]

Sounds like a blower, maybe a M112?

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Sounds like a blower, maybe a M112?

could be a blower. could be heads. could be a 363 stroker crank. could be air bag suspension.
could be my new transfibulator, could be my new turboencabulator!
WE JUST DONT KNOW YET

 

[gmanpaint]

You already have all the toys for Evil, it must be something for you. Life size blow up passenger !?!?

 

[Dono]

Realdoll dot com ? The perfect passenger for evil.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Realdoll dot com ? The perfect passenger for evil.

Oh really?
Hey do you need a hand when the motor comes back? I have been practising “dropping” motors in!