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!

 

[vroomzoomboom]

So, What are you going to do? Pmas, SCT, ba3000 style, ba5000style? LOL

A side order of Dart?







<cough> You could have fordstrokers prep a block for you and have your internals moved over locally. <cough>

http://fordstrokers.com/fordstrokers-short-blocks/dart-302-short-blocks/dart-shp-machined-block

don....stop it!!!! lol

and andy, i am NOT building a motor......hopefully

 

[Dono]

I'm sure the pmas will work.
If I can't figure out how to move the supplied maf transfer from the pmas in, we will use the BA-3000. I think using the BA-3000 will just require more maf transfer tuning.

cough
>>>>>Dart<<<<<<<

 

[ahodges]

Ok so I lied. My MAF is a BA2600. My maf counts are around 790 @ 6,000 RPM, taken straight off of the datalog.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

ordered the mh90-3000 and pigtail. hoping it will be here next week.

 

[4pointslow]

maf counts

I will be hanging on the edge of my seat waiting to hear what maf counts it tops out at with the new maf.
I find this exiting. I must be a nerd.

 

[jd4242]

Double cough cough
>>>>{DART}<<<<

 

[vroomzoomboom]

well **** just went south in a REAL big hurry!!!!
had to do some running around after work, and go to a friends house after work. i ran home, figured i would jump in evil and use it. me being me, i go to get on the highway, and nail it like i normally do....when....all of the sudden it starts miss firing BAD. i also look in the mirror and can see smoke (or steam). pull over real fast and it dies. get out, and i can see coolant pouring under the truck. normally i wouldnt care because i figured i blew out another block heater, but this time its from the drivers side, and higher up then the frost plugs!!!!!
when i try to start it, its not making a real good sound turning over either.
i am posting this sitting on the side of the road waiting for the tow truck....

 

[ahodges]

Ohh noo!

 

[Dono]

Boom Baby.................Boom.

When you nailed it, did the rpm's go high, like 6000 ish?
I was thinking we should set the rev limiter back down so the maf can't peg.

My fear is that the maf pegged, motor went lean under high load......BOOM Head lifted. .....At least that's my bet.

I am thinking all kinds of four letter words right now.

 

[4pointslow]

. me being me, i go to get on the highway, and nail it like i normally do....QUOTE]

So you know that the maf would peg, the tuning is not done, and you drive it like you always do? That's a no no. Stop it.

If I recall you have head bolts and not head studs, maybe time to upgrade.
I am hoping it is a simple fix for you, hate to see it when these cool street trucks break down.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Ohh noo!

Boom Baby.................Boom.

When you nailed it, did the rpm's go high, like 6000 ish?
I was thinking we should set the rev limiter back down so the maf can't peg.

My fear is that the maf pegged, motor went lean under high load......BOOM Head lifted. .....At least that's my bet.

I am thinking all kinds of four letter words right now.

So you know that the maf would peg, the tuning is not done, and you drive it like you always do? That's a no no. Stop it.

If I recall you have head bolts and not head studs, maybe time to upgrade.
I am hoping it is a simple fix for you, hate to see it when these cool street trucks break down.

april fools *****es

 

[4pointslow]

4-1-2016

april fools *****es

You got me, I totally did not see that coming. lol.
I am very happy to hear that was just a joke.

Please don't really blow it up now!

 

[vroomzoomboom]

You got me, I totally did not see that coming. lol.
I am very happy to hear that was just a joke.

Please don't really blow it up now!

had to go to dons and drop of some torque wrenches. tried getting there before he got home. when he got out of his car he looked real stressed, and started to riffle off a bunch of things trying to figure out what happen. when i said those exact words to him, the look on his face was priceless. his words were "i thought that was supposed to end at noon!!!!!!" lol

 

[gmanpaint]

Sumbitch!

Got me too!

 

[4pointslow]

Evil

You better hope Evil is not mad at you for using her in your April fools joke!
LOL.
Poor Dono! His blood pressure must be high now.

 

[Dono]

Yup, I didn't find it funny.

I'll get back at Tim though (thru Evil).
I wonder how fast Evil will be with the whole timing table set at 0 ?

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Yup, I didn't find it funny.

I'll get back at Tim though (thru Evil).
I wonder how fast Evil will be with the whole timing table set at 0 ?

i was going to say something like i wonder if you'll figure out that puddle of oil that i will pour under your truck when its all back together and sitting in the driveway, but thats grounds for murder lol

 

[Dono]

Specially when that bolt does thru the turbo and out on to the street with bits of turbo.

 

[Dono]

See what this guy is doing with race fuel on his N/A 347?
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1729914
510hp at 6500rpm N/A.

I really don't think a m122 is a good idea until you are serious about a dart block.
Then, the first project could be making an intercooled mount for the m122 on your current block.

I can tell you are going to keep going. Where's that <evil> emoji? I'm all in on this one! Love to see what you come up with.

 

[ahodges]

Wow! I'm glad it didn't really blow. You had me.. But it was odd how calm you seemed in the post.. I did question it in my head but didn't even think about April fools!