Okay,
My best friend will soon be purchasing a 1992 Ford F250 with the 351. it has 197,000 miles on it and was owned by his girlfriend's dad's plumbing business. He's completing his second year of auto repair, while I did a year of diesel and a semester of auto body.
It's last oil change was, um... a long time ago. I think it's 6000 over. That's how they do maitenence there.
Well...
He wants to fix it up.
He wants to get the cylinder heads shaved and put those on himself (with my help)
He wants a performance cam installed professionally "because you'd have to take the engine out" and "I can't afford to mess anything up".
He wants it to sound like "it has a cam"
He also wants to drop it 2 inches and get skinnier tires for better fuel economy. Then he wants a grille guard or pushbars (those things on the front of cop cars).
Here's what I think:
really, it'd be a better parts chaser than a hotrod. but...
a 2 inch drop on a pickup truck will do nothing for MPG.
Skinnier tires will look stupid, go with factory size.
Weight=evil for performance and fuel economy, so leave the grille guard at JC Whitney and take the dented tailgate off.
He should put the performance cam in himself, it shouldn't be too bad.
Why would you get a performance cam if you want better gas mileage?
What's the factory CR on those trucks? Valve/Piston clearance? Will shaving the heads to boost CR be ok with cheepie gas?
While the heads are off (it needs new head gaskets anyway) why not clean up the ports a little? That would probably give better gains than shaving the cylinder head.
Headers- no ceramic coat ones are fairly cheep.
He should take the busted up tailgate and scrap it.
It needs a better induction system. little airbox>2 tubes that look like radiator hoses>throttle body must be choking it.
plugs, wires, pcv, fuel filter, good tune up should be first
1. how would you go about fixing up a fuel injection Ford 351?
2. who's smarter about this- my friend or myself?
3. any ideas or comments?
thanks, matt
My best friend will soon be purchasing a 1992 Ford F250 with the 351. it has 197,000 miles on it and was owned by his girlfriend's dad's plumbing business. He's completing his second year of auto repair, while I did a year of diesel and a semester of auto body.
It's last oil change was, um... a long time ago. I think it's 6000 over. That's how they do maitenence there.
Well...
He wants to fix it up.
He wants to get the cylinder heads shaved and put those on himself (with my help)
He wants a performance cam installed professionally "because you'd have to take the engine out" and "I can't afford to mess anything up".
He wants it to sound like "it has a cam"
He also wants to drop it 2 inches and get skinnier tires for better fuel economy. Then he wants a grille guard or pushbars (those things on the front of cop cars).
Here's what I think:
really, it'd be a better parts chaser than a hotrod. but...
a 2 inch drop on a pickup truck will do nothing for MPG.
Skinnier tires will look stupid, go with factory size.
Weight=evil for performance and fuel economy, so leave the grille guard at JC Whitney and take the dented tailgate off.
He should put the performance cam in himself, it shouldn't be too bad.
Why would you get a performance cam if you want better gas mileage?
What's the factory CR on those trucks? Valve/Piston clearance? Will shaving the heads to boost CR be ok with cheepie gas?
While the heads are off (it needs new head gaskets anyway) why not clean up the ports a little? That would probably give better gains than shaving the cylinder head.
Headers- no ceramic coat ones are fairly cheep.
He should take the busted up tailgate and scrap it.
It needs a better induction system. little airbox>2 tubes that look like radiator hoses>throttle body must be choking it.
plugs, wires, pcv, fuel filter, good tune up should be first
1. how would you go about fixing up a fuel injection Ford 351?
2. who's smarter about this- my friend or myself?
3. any ideas or comments?
thanks, matt