Hello. I know old thread, but I was bored and followed a link from Youtube to see where some of my views were coming from, and was somewhat dissapointed on how much doubtin' was going on in this forum. To clear up a few things,
ABS and Brake light are on because dump valve was leaking. It is a 20 year old truck. Parking brake was not on.
Oil Pressure gauge wire was grounding out when the engine was torque'd over, causing it to go in the red. It is a 20 year old vehicle... now fixed, and in fact not hand grenaded, 40,000 miles on engine and counting. 225k on truck.
That video was done with 3.08 open differential, and the tires had very close to the same outside diameter of stock tires. No more speedometer error than a stock truck. GPS top speed when hitting the speed gov is 105.
Tachometer is from a 2.9 ranger which has a 5500 rpm redline, cause it looks cooler.
Tires are in fact spinning from 1-2 shift. Rebuilt transmission has a shift kit that'll make you spill your morning coffee.
The reason it goes past the 4900 RPM point is because at the time I was running a Bama 4 program computer chip which had a higher rev limit (still have it, just horrible mpg's). Now I have a generic hypertech, which lowered RPM limit back down to 4900.
You want to see a fully decked out 4.0 with custom internals? Give me the $20k and I will be happy to build you one. This is what you can build given a modest budget and readily available parts from summit, jegs etc.
Rangers are in fact much lighter than explorers. I will admit to cheating a little bit when making this video. I had taken off the spare tire and the tailgate to make it much easier to burn out, and it was done at night in pretty cool weather.
It's really not even that fast. 0-60 is 7 seconds flat on a good day with traction even with the new 3.73's and a locker.
Live in San Marcos, Tx. PM me if you want to go for a cruise...
