I met Jim at the Dearborn meet and he asked me to start a thread here for my build. The build is fully documented on turborangerforums. The majority of my fabrication work is all lost due to photobucket so Ill kind of start this thread off will where I'm at now and work back as I can.
Quick backstory, it all started with my old 93 (in my profile picture and the link in my sig) it was lowered and had a 2.3 turbo in it, I always wanted it to handle better and have more power, so this whole build was supposed to happen to it but I stumbled into an 01 cab and couldn't turn down 3 extra inches. So exterior is 01 cab, 01-03 front end with 08+ bumper. The bed and front end are all aluminum and the truck weighs I at 2700 pounds
Chassis: full 2x3 tube frame, with 1.75 round tube along with it. Welder series Mustang 2 front crossmember with modified ebay tubular control arms. 99-04 Cobra IRS based rear suspension, I started with a complete cobra subframe, made a jig and put all the suspension mounts on the frame, custom tubular rear control arms. S550 track pack front sway bar and 99 cobra rear sway bar, QA1 coil overs. CTS-V 4 piston brembos all around with 13 inch front rotors and 12.5” rear. I’m sure I’m forgetting something in the chassis.
Powertrain: 2.3 Duratec out of an 06 focus st, untouched besides swapping a custom sheet metal oil pan and modified aluminum valve cover, I plan to build an engine this was just to get it going but has proven to work well. On the outside is a schedule 10 stainless header I built myself with a Borg Warner EFR 7163 turbo (what they use on Indy cars). A custom designed and built by me intake manifold, and a basic front mount intercooler. Fuel system is an Aeromotive Stealth A1000, -10 feed -8 return, Aeromotive regulator and filter, custom billet fuel rail and ID1000 injectors. The transmission is an 03-04 Cobra T56 with a quicktime SBF bellhousing and a custom (rangergt) duratec to small block adapter and flywheel.
I’m sure I forgot plenty of details But I’ll go ahead and start posting 3 years worth of pictures. We will start with the First Drive, truck was still multi colored and a little to low
sitting next to my other tube frame ranger
under the hood
The aluminum bed
Quick backstory, it all started with my old 93 (in my profile picture and the link in my sig) it was lowered and had a 2.3 turbo in it, I always wanted it to handle better and have more power, so this whole build was supposed to happen to it but I stumbled into an 01 cab and couldn't turn down 3 extra inches. So exterior is 01 cab, 01-03 front end with 08+ bumper. The bed and front end are all aluminum and the truck weighs I at 2700 pounds
Chassis: full 2x3 tube frame, with 1.75 round tube along with it. Welder series Mustang 2 front crossmember with modified ebay tubular control arms. 99-04 Cobra IRS based rear suspension, I started with a complete cobra subframe, made a jig and put all the suspension mounts on the frame, custom tubular rear control arms. S550 track pack front sway bar and 99 cobra rear sway bar, QA1 coil overs. CTS-V 4 piston brembos all around with 13 inch front rotors and 12.5” rear. I’m sure I’m forgetting something in the chassis.
Powertrain: 2.3 Duratec out of an 06 focus st, untouched besides swapping a custom sheet metal oil pan and modified aluminum valve cover, I plan to build an engine this was just to get it going but has proven to work well. On the outside is a schedule 10 stainless header I built myself with a Borg Warner EFR 7163 turbo (what they use on Indy cars). A custom designed and built by me intake manifold, and a basic front mount intercooler. Fuel system is an Aeromotive Stealth A1000, -10 feed -8 return, Aeromotive regulator and filter, custom billet fuel rail and ID1000 injectors. The transmission is an 03-04 Cobra T56 with a quicktime SBF bellhousing and a custom (rangergt) duratec to small block adapter and flywheel.
I’m sure I forgot plenty of details But I’ll go ahead and start posting 3 years worth of pictures. We will start with the First Drive, truck was still multi colored and a little to low
sitting next to my other tube frame ranger
under the hood
The aluminum bed
