90 ranger 2.9 help

[jakegun231]

I have a 1990 ranger with the 2.9 2 wheel drive 5 speed, I'm looking for a little advice on. The truck had a small engine fire not much damage just plug wires and a crispy wire harness, what I would like to do since I'm making it a "fun truck" is put a nice carburetor on it and do a little beefing up it, however I have no clue where to get a intake manifold that will convert to a carb or what moter I could pull one off of. Next since this is one of my first project trucks I'm putting alot of time into it I would like to rewire it but I need some assistance on what needs to be hooked back up and what i can leave off. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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[black_demon69]

I have a 1990 ranger with the 2.9 2 wheel drive 5 speed, I'm looking for a little advice on. The truck had a small engine fire not much damage just plug wires and a crispy wire harness, what I would like to do since I'm making it a "fun truck" is put a nice carburetor on it and do a little beefing up it, however I have no clue where to get a intake manifold that will convert to a carb or what moter I could pull one off of. Next since this is one of my first project trucks I'm putting alot of time into it I would like to rewire it but I need some assistance on what needs to be hooked back up and what i can leave off. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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and just why would you want carburetor over fuel injection? besides i don't think that the 2.9 ever had a carburetor..

 

[adsm08]

The 2.9 never had a carb. Offenhauser did make an intake to put a carb on a 2.9, but they are very rare to come across these days and when you do they go for between $600-$1000. There are no other production engines that you can take an intake from to slap on a 2.9 and make it carb.

Also the 2.9 needs the computer to deal with the ignition. You can't just use a 2.8 dis because it spins the wrong direction and the gear won't mesh.


I'm with demon in my abject inability to understand why you could possibly want a carb over a proper fuel injection system. EFI delivers better fuel economy, power, performance, and consistency than a carb ever can on the same engine. A carb may be able to win in one or two of those areas at a time, but it will do it by sacrificing all the others. EFI is better able to function across the board.

 

[h200]

Here in New Jersey the EPA rules don't allow any mods of this kind period!
Anyway I'm with the rest of you. I was ASE tech back in carb days. When fuel injection came out on American cars I said to myself " What took so long! "

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I'd look into the cause of the engine fire....

My choptop had a small engine fire before I got it. A close inspection of things showed a large crack (I could stick my fingernail in it) over one cylinder in the head. Hot oil apparently shot out the crack and right onto the exhaust manifold, thus creating a fire.

I tried replacing the head only to have it crack again. Naturally I replaced the wiring harness when I did that (it really wasn't as bad to replace as you might think). The replacement head didn't fail as bad as the first, but it failed. I pulled the motor in favor of a junkyard 2.9L which ran great and gave me no problems at all until the point where I pulled it in favor of a 4.0L. Being that you have a 1990, it would be an easy conversion to 4.0L if you want more go.

If you really have your heart set on a carbed motor... do a carbed 5.0 swap....