2001 Edge 4X4 "Super" Ranger

[Blown]

Here's an update:

She is broken-in and running great. Just a little rich in closed loop so I am working on the tune a bit.

My next upgrade is going to be water and meth injection. It's the best cooling for the buck right now after the rebuild, more affordable. I still like the idea of an intercooler, but don't have the time or money.

 

[Blown]

Got the Snow Performance Meth/Water injection and installed it. It works great but the tank they sent leaked and an LED doesn't work. I had it set-up and then found the tank leaked, so it took time to rerun wires,tubing, and a run to the hardware store to adapt a fitting to the existing winder washer fluid tank.

The power improvement comes from adding 5 degrees of timing and reduceing fuel/air to 12.3:1. The timing change should add 12-18 horses. The lowering of air/fuel ratio makes for a better boom as does the increase in air density from the fluids injected and the cooling. That is likely another 12-18 horses.

It is a noticeable improvement, well worth the cost and time to install.

Now I need to get to the wrecking yard and find a smaller wiper fluid tank and coolant overflow tank.

 

[Blown]

Damn Engine ate itself!

I think the timing chain on the back of the engine went.

Exactly what I was trying to avoid with a good rebuild.

Could of, should of kept the 5.0 and all out of the old Explorer and swapped it................F#%k!!!!

I would be done with 4.0 at this point, but it does have a warranty and am waiting for the tear down and what went wrong.

 

[stmitch]

That sucks. Will your warranty cover it since you've modified it so much?

 

[Blown]

the engine is covered as long as it wasn't tuning, pre-ignition, detonation or something. It was running great.

 

[Blown]

It's ****ed, there is no way to know if it was the rebuild, parts, or my tune.

I am done with the 4.0 and moving onto an X 5.0 for playing around.

Selling the blower and kit.

5.0 takes me back to my roots and is a solid engine with many performance parts.......and my upgrades will have transferred to the X.