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]

Sorry man, that stinks.

Let it wait if you can. You know the part will work.

that is the problem at the moment. if it was summer, sure i would let it sit and wait. however in the long term forecast, next sunday they are calling for snow. with having no garage to work in, i dont really want to be standing outside trying to put it back together with a bunch of sloppy wet crap falling from the sky.

that hub cant be saved? What is the material? steel?
Dang stainless bolts so soft!!!

im not really sure what its made from. if its metal, they use some type of coating on it so it wont rust. the reason why i say its done it if you look at the picture of it, by the time you are done drilling it out, then drill for a coil, there isnt much meat left on the outter edge of it. i also dont know if you can weld to it, and if you do, if it will distort it

 

[410Fortune]

I would
extract the bolt
see if a magnet sticks to it
grind the roughness away
heat the part
tack weld some small beads where the material is fubar
shape the new weld material
re tap the hole
See how it comes out and probably
Run it
and then there is always the JB weld option (to re shape the fubar bits)

 

[gmanpaint]

Removing a broken stainless bolt is the stuff of nightmares!!

It's harder than mild steel, and more brittle. Nasty combo! Need a high dollar bit for it at the very least, and done in a press/lathe.

 

[4pointslow]

I use this From VMP Performance:
SKU: VMP-HUB6

VMP 6-BOLT STAINLESS STEEL PULLEY HUB WITH 6 BOLTS

Financing available with Affirm.

SKU: VMP-HUB6

 

[4pointslow]

I use their pulleys that are listed for Cobra's and Lightnings, they have lots of sizes like 2.6 to 3.3 inch.

VMP 2.6" 8-RIB SUPERCHARGER PULLEY FOR 2003-2004 COBRA VMP TVS BLOWER

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Financing available with Affirm.

SKU: VMP-26-CTVS

 

[vroomzoomboom]

TVS fits eaton shafts?

 

[4pointslow]

TVS fits eaton shafts?

That 6 bolt pulley hub is what I am using on my GT500 supercharger on my 98 two door, and my Cobra supercharger on my 2004 four door.
The shafts are the same size so yes.

 

[4pointslow]

And the Cobra and Lightning pulleys that VMP make, fit the 6 bolt hub that they make.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Well in other news, I just tried pressing the rotors out. No dice. I have a little 12 ton press and it wouldn’t even crack em.

 

[donalds]

Deja-vu

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Deja-vu

yours were a ***** i take it

 

[donalds]

yours were a ***** i take it

In another thread a few days ago I made a comment that I thought my 12 ton press was fine and I was told no
a 20 ton was better to have for larger jobs like axle bearings etc...

I've been able to do everything so far with my 12ton
Now I know it's only matter of time

And everything on my m90 came apart easy just like in the thread posted above its a real pain to get back together correct with no rotor contact
I was lucky I had some help

 

[vroomzoomboom]

guess i will have to bring it to work and try. we have like a 50 ton there. that should work, if not.....

 

[vroomzoomboom]

so i had a brain fart.

instead of getting a new hub, or new pulley and waiting till who knows for them to ship and me standing in a snow bank trying to put everything back together, why not just redrill the hub????

figured it would be worth a shot and not have to worry how badly i bugger it up trying to get the old bolt out. that and if it doesnt work, it only has to last over the winter starting it up and moving it around so i can shovel snow around in the back anyway.

so i just spent the last hour putting it back together. going to wait till tomorrow to fire it up and add oil so the sealant can dry overnight.

by hand it seems to spin easy so i dont think anything is binding either.

 

[donalds]

Nice I like everything
Really quick to
Except the rtv
I was gonna suggest drilling but didn't want to look dumb lol

Problems like this is why I keep a complete rebuild kit for my blower ...and other stuff to ....
Having it around will ensure it will least forever because I spent money on the rebuild kit

 

[ahodges]

Nice job!

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Nice I like everything
Really quick to
Except the rtv
I was gonna suggest drilling but didn't want to look dumb lol

Problems like this is why I keep a complete rebuild kit for my blower ...and other stuff to ....
Having it around will ensure it will least forever because I spent money on the rebuild kit

the spare crap that dono and I have laying around is staggering. Not to mention the 3 parts trucks.

Nice job!

thanks Andy, as I said you need to get you one of these!

 

[donalds]

Just check your blower oil over the next couple days

 

[ahodges]

I would love to get the bigger blower for mine.. At a minimum I think I'm going to be changing the oil in my M90 this winter.

 

[410Fortune]

SMART I did not see that option

GOOD SHOW
fingers crossed