cbxer55
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- Joined
- Oct 9, 2009
- Messages
- 1,865
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- Points
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- Location
- Midwest City, Oklahoma
- Vehicle Year
- 1998
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 3.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
I had a friend that has a shop put 4.10 gears in my 98 in 2021. Also had him put in one of his custom shift kits for the 4R44. The rear gears and the shift kit really livened it up, it bangs into gear with authority now. Also the 4.10 gears totally change the way it drives. There's some hills here, where it used to back out of OD going up them. Now, it shifts into OD if I have the OD OFF triggered.Is your truck 2wd?
If youre looking for more acceleration the biggest bang for your buck is going to the junkyard and grabbing a 4.10 rear from a 4banger truck.
If its 4wd you're kinda outta luck you'll have to swap the front end too
I know people here don't go for the CAIs. But I've had a MAC CAI on mine since I bought it. Because the intake tube from the MAF to the TB is a full 3.0 inches, not necked down like the stock one, it revs to hell and gone now. That along with a no muffler exhaust, and I love this truck. Anyway, I have the area under the hood where the filter sits isolated using foam. And two scoops on the hood directly over the filter, with a three inch flex hose running from the grill to the area under the filter. And a scoop on the hood that has 25 1.5 inch holes under it. Drove it 100 miles the other day, non-stop. Opened the hood and the aluminum intake manifold was cold to the touch. Same with the metal
intake tube. Those two items used to get so hot, I swear you could fry an egg on them. Not anymore.
The truck was sitting at a friend's machine shop idling. His dad came in and asked me what size V-8 it had under the hood. When I told him it was just a 3.0, he said "sure sounds like a V-8.
The hood scoop is a Roush Mustang scoop. The side vents are 2013/14 Mustang items.
Going to do a face lift on it this year. Already have a new grill, just needs to be painted (ordered it black, came chrome. Idiots!). Then a new front and rear bumper, and have a friend that paints do the hood and wiper area.
Just turned 185,000 last week.
The CAI. I took it off a few years ago and put the stock intake back on. HATED IT! Where's the beef? Also tried running the open cone filter with the stock necked down intake tube. HATED IT! Where's the beef? Threw the entire stock intake in the Round-Open-Top-File, so I'd never be tempted to put it on again.
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