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fomocoguy
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- Vehicle Year
- 1984
- Make / Model
- Ford
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Hello all! New to the site here, but thought I'd jump right in and post up my build thread so far. A few months back I started looking for a clean Ranger to build, and was really surprised at the difficulty in finding a bargain truck that wasn't beat to hell/ rusted to hell/ run into the ground here in St. Louis. After some patience I finally found my truck. She's an 84 model that was originally a diesel and was pulled behind a camper. A poor 302 conversion was done using an early 80's smog motor and some interesting "engineering". After some haggling and $1000 laid on the table, I drug home this:
She's 99.9% rust free. The bed floor still has shiny paint on it, and most of the miles were being dragged down the highway behind the RV. I already had in my mind a gasser style build, so she's getting an older low mileage SVO 351w that I've been itching to shove in something. It's rated from Ford at 345hp, so it should move along nicely. It'll have fenderwell headers and I'm planning on using a 4" lift kit on the front to get the nose high stance (and room for the headers to drop out behind the front tires). Here's a few pics of what I've got so far.
I'll keep ya'll posted as things progress.
She's 99.9% rust free. The bed floor still has shiny paint on it, and most of the miles were being dragged down the highway behind the RV. I already had in my mind a gasser style build, so she's getting an older low mileage SVO 351w that I've been itching to shove in something. It's rated from Ford at 345hp, so it should move along nicely. It'll have fenderwell headers and I'm planning on using a 4" lift kit on the front to get the nose high stance (and room for the headers to drop out behind the front tires). Here's a few pics of what I've got so far.
I'll keep ya'll posted as things progress.
