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- Ford Ranger
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Well, my wife and my buddy coordinated buying a cheap Grand Marq for my birthday.
Been tossing around the idea of building a big bodied drift car....and apparently she was listening. lol
Title was signed over to friend's shop due to cost of repairs and it just sat there for a few months. Needed an intake manifold (common 4.6 issue) and had some weird electrical issue. It would over charge, not charge, peg the temp gauge randomly and shut off randomly as well as a bad air ride compressor....but it is a rust free V8 car and I was able to drive it home.
Started by replacing the intake and the pigtail on the alternator. Still had some issues with the PCM controlled alternator. Did some reading and concluded that it likely was all due to one or more bad coils (likely due to the sparkplug wells filling with coolant over the years) Replaced the mismatched (4 different brands) coils with Motorcraft coils and tossed in NGK plugs....boom all issues solved.
Next I removed all the ABS pump and replumbed straight to the master, threw Ridetech coilovers and shocks on it, 18" Mustang take off wheels.
Then made it a Crown Vic and 5 speed swapped it with a TR3650 and a McCleod Street Extreme clutch and 15lb flywheel.
Ditched the adjustable pedals and used a combo of Mustang and Vic pedals combined with some Ford Motorstports billet clutch cable upgrades to add a third pedal
Not many pictures because it was 100* and i was under dash for too long.lol
Also tossed some drift boi seats and a Hurst short throw inside. I snagged a cheap SCT X4 and got Marty tune for the manual swap/4.10 setup, I still need to tidy up the shift boot to call the swap complete. FYI 95+ Ranger column clamshell fits the Crown Vic column, perfect for the shifter delete...also that is a Hurst shift arm for a Ranger setup...feels way better than the shorter Mustang layout.
Whipped up a quick tubular bash bar/bumper support as well.
Next on the list is dual rear calipers, billet rear links, welded diff, and 4.10s. (all will happen at once as soon as track down a gear set.)....then its ready to make some smoke (and immediately decide it needs a ton more angle). Lots more to come as I find more time to work on this thing.
Been tossing around the idea of building a big bodied drift car....and apparently she was listening. lol
Title was signed over to friend's shop due to cost of repairs and it just sat there for a few months. Needed an intake manifold (common 4.6 issue) and had some weird electrical issue. It would over charge, not charge, peg the temp gauge randomly and shut off randomly as well as a bad air ride compressor....but it is a rust free V8 car and I was able to drive it home.
Started by replacing the intake and the pigtail on the alternator. Still had some issues with the PCM controlled alternator. Did some reading and concluded that it likely was all due to one or more bad coils (likely due to the sparkplug wells filling with coolant over the years) Replaced the mismatched (4 different brands) coils with Motorcraft coils and tossed in NGK plugs....boom all issues solved.
Next I removed all the ABS pump and replumbed straight to the master, threw Ridetech coilovers and shocks on it, 18" Mustang take off wheels.
Then made it a Crown Vic and 5 speed swapped it with a TR3650 and a McCleod Street Extreme clutch and 15lb flywheel.
Ditched the adjustable pedals and used a combo of Mustang and Vic pedals combined with some Ford Motorstports billet clutch cable upgrades to add a third pedal
Not many pictures because it was 100* and i was under dash for too long.lol
Also tossed some drift boi seats and a Hurst short throw inside. I snagged a cheap SCT X4 and got Marty tune for the manual swap/4.10 setup, I still need to tidy up the shift boot to call the swap complete. FYI 95+ Ranger column clamshell fits the Crown Vic column, perfect for the shifter delete...also that is a Hurst shift arm for a Ranger setup...feels way better than the shorter Mustang layout.
Whipped up a quick tubular bash bar/bumper support as well.
Next on the list is dual rear calipers, billet rear links, welded diff, and 4.10s. (all will happen at once as soon as track down a gear set.)....then its ready to make some smoke (and immediately decide it needs a ton more angle). Lots more to come as I find more time to work on this thing.
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