nah, i quit drinking after this happened to my last car. (pic attatched)
(2007 pacifica 4.0,twin turbo,AWD swap,built the 6spd,made about 477hp. caught fire due to a short in the stock transmission wiring harness.)
it was unrelated to the drinking, but after that happened i just sorta quit doing alot of things. got a factory job,started going to church,and became active in my community.
lost my house,my fiance,and alot of my prized possessions around that time aswell.
live and learn though.
if you really think 4.10 gears are the way to go, i'll get em. didnt the ranger also come with 4.56 gears in one of the models for the 4.0? would those be better or worse?
4.10 gears and supercharger? or 3.73 and supercharger? at that point which would give better MPG and ability?
i dont mind if i kill the city MPG either aslong as it redeems itself those longer travels.
and i want to have enough ability to get up and go if some asshole wont let me pass them.
doing more research into it, the OHV would benefeit more from a supercharger than it would a turbo,and having that boost on demand anytime i'd want it....would just be fun. im thinking 5.5psi
plus then i dont have to worry about limiting flow at the upper range like i would with this turbo. (seriously, its small. came off a dodge 2.2L turbo engine)
and yeah, that sounds right. although ive never personally built a 460 or 572, just helped repair and diagnose problems.
i was raised in the south on a 200~acre farm, the 440 was in a 1967 charger that me and my grandfathers neighbor built for dirt track racing. i was 15 at the time,he was 67. he knew all the things to do and funded it, and i was essentially just a wrench turner. when i was 15 i was 5'9 and 165lbs, at that time i had been a bodybuilder for 4 months. (as an amatuer)
total planned budget for building the 4.0 is 15k,but going to take baby steps to get there.
and yeah. when i was 17 i dropped out of school (went to private school my entire life) and got a GED,did a 6 month class on automotive and mechanical engineering then i went to the navy to enlist into being a diesel mechanic. i got a 67 on the practice test and decided i didnt want to do that with my life.
im also a+ certified by microsoft. i used to run a business building high end workstation for consumers and anyone who afford it really. lowest price pc i ever made was 3,750$.the most expensive was my own personal server for the company. it was 29,576$ all-in with all software and hardware. (22,106$ hardware cost.) lost the pc in a flood. since i payed for it with income i made on a business that i made purely to prove how easy it is to build computers, i didnt really care. looking back, i should have invested the money.
im very depressed and suicidal in my life and im always looking for new hobbies so that i dont take my .40 and end it. which is kinda why when i do things i tend to go all-in. i crashed my vic becuase i wanted to kill myself in the crash. fortuntely for me,the vic turned out to be very strong in a crash.
enough about me though, i digress. i just said a bunch of s**t that nobody probably cares about.
where can i get a supercharger kit for the 4.0? and as i asked before, is toms parts for the 4.0 worth anything? not the rockers or stroker kit.
i was thinking the m112 adapter kit he sells for 800$, and the pistons. i was thinking about buying another ranger with the 4.0 OHV of the same engine model and pulling the heads and porting and polishing them,aswell as anything else i might consider doing to the heads.
my definition of a "bolt on" is literally anything i can bolt in. anything that doesnt require machining or advanced press tools or things of that nature. even if it means pulling the engine out to install, aslong as i can do it with a set of wrenches and wratchets its still a bolt on in my eyes. so to me,things like new heads,intake manifolds,exhuast headers + systems, and spending 40+hours getting a tune JUST RIGHT (for my specific use) is no sweat to me.
i was thinking of going for a electric water pump,removing the A/C,and going to a electric power steering pump. should free up a bit of power.
i'd rather have the m112 than the m90 for the increase in low end boost.