So this is my 93 Ranger 5.0. I have had this truck for over 10 years now, as it was my first vehicle. It's mostly been a street/strip/show vehicle over it's life, and was a daily driver for me in high school. I don't want it to become a dedicated racer, I love driving it on the street too.
About the combo.
It's a 93 Splash, 3" lowering beams in the front, 4.5" lower in the back via flipped axle. That setup is an 8.8 from an '01 Explorer, so it has limited slip, 3.73 gears, disc brakes, and 31 spline axles where most 8.8's have 28 splines. The engine is a 5.0 from an '89 mustang. I'm in the process of added twin turbos to the setup, along with the prep's for Speed Week 2014. There's too much to list about the engine, but let's just say I'm hoping to limit it at 425 rwhp, so I don't crack the block. Eventually I will get a Dart/Boss block and set it up properly, but I'm not made of money!
The trans is a T5 from a 91 mustang.
I have a cardomain page for it too if anyone wants to see more pics of it all put together before I started this twin turbo project.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/217533/1993-ford-ranger-regular-cab/To the pics... oh and sorry for the junky iphone quality, everything from this post forward will be better.
This was about a year ago, when I first started pulling things apart
With the Trick Flow upper intake off. Note the mess of wiring.
With the heater core removed, this side of the engine bay opens up nicely.
Dash removed, can see the ignition box.
My box full of turbo and interior parts
The lesser seen side of the dash, there is some opportunity for weight removal here. I will probably upgrade to an aftermarket or custom built dash in the future, but I had to remove that from my scope of work for the time being.
This is your brain on EFI. I'm planning on almost completely re-doing the engine wiring, as the fella who did the engine swap before I owned the truck decided to leave in the ranger engine harness.
...and this is your brain on drugs.
Finding this kind of thing in my wiring harness makes my brain want to explode. This connection was taped over.
Gots ta love Autosol!
This is an MSD alternator, 160 amp. Good little unit, got it before they started making everything in china.
With the fenders and inner fenders removed. Not sure yet if I will run inner fenders or not...
No wiring mess cleans it up a bit
An old battery box I'm going to clean up. Will be moving the battery to the box.
Lower intake removed. The plan is to tear down the engine, and spend a bit of time making the block stronger and improve the coolant flow a bit.
Valvetrain. Comp lifters and roller fulcrum rockers. The cam has plenty of lift for a stock headed 5.0, so I stuck with 1.6 ratio rockers.
Stock E7 heads, I put in 1.94/1.54" valves a few years back and also did a bit of hand porting. I don't have flow numbers
So this time around I'm just going to polish the combustion chamber pockets to reduce pre-ignition tendency.
With the heads off, getting ready to pull it.
Hey look, motor mounts
big mess
more of the same
the short block on the stand
bottom end of the short block. Turns out that's a Melling M-68HV on there, bonus!
Well hey that's about it for now, thanks for checking it out!
Stay tuned for progress updates, and let me know if you have any questions/comments!
Tristan