2000 mounty build

[Fratantonio84]

I'm getting ready to rebuild the 5.0l in my 2000 mountaineer I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on a configuration to produce around 300-350hp without breaking the bank and I'd they're any other header options other than the $800 torque monster headers that will work with minimal modification

 

[vegasmax777]

Question what is the main obistials on headers for the 2000 2wd 5.0L explorers? What or where are the clearance issues? Steering, heater box, or what? Anyone really know the answers? Thanks

 

[Turdle]

All of the above and then some.

On an episode of monster garage, the metal expert Jesse James commented an RBV can't be cool, because you can't make headers for them .

Kooks tried once and gave explorer back to it's owner, saying 1200 bux wouldn't build them.

Just get the tm's.

Edit. If it could be done, you wouldn't be digging up this old of thread.

 

[Fix4Dirt]

All of the above and then some.

On an episode of monster garage, the metal expert Jesse James commented an RBV can't be cool, because you can't make headers for them .

Kooks tried once and gave explorer back to it's owner, saying 1200 bux wouldn't build them.

Just get the tm's.

Edit. If it could be done, you wouldn't be digging up this old of thread.

^^^^^^^^ also the frame too, iirc stang headers dont work cause of the clearence, and i don think you can notch it to make it work. TMH was a great attempt at making actually good headers for these. they just cant be full stang size, though.

 

[CDW6212R]

^^^^^^^^ also the frame too, iirc stang headers dont work cause of the clearence, and i don think you can notch it to make it work. TMH was a great attempt at making actually good headers for these. they just cant be full stang size, though.

TM failed to make an easy to install header that anyone could install, mainly because they wanted to as close to possible, build an equal length header. Thus they added length to the pipes on purpose which filled the tiny available space, thus making them hell to install. A decent shorty header would have been easy to make for a competent pipe welder, and it would have outperformed the OEM manifolds by miles. If they had gone that route, they could made them far easier and faster, for far less cost, and sold a ton more of them.

They wanted the mystique of an equal length header, which they aren't(they don't claim they are, but it's obvious how they were designed). People 20-25 years ago discovered the market for equal length shorty headers was terrible, so they stopped making them. One of my best friends had equal length shorty headers in his 93 Mustang convertible, AOD/302. I helped a little to install them, he and his coworker had been working at it for an hour or so before I came. The Fox Mustang is tight for such equal lengths, but a little patience got them in. I would never mess with those type again, and that was in about 1997, and they were becoming scarce then. Try to find equal length Mustang headers now for a 1987-1993 model, I bet you can't. The power difference versus a normal shorty was very small, maybe 3-4hp and similar torque in the mid range.