Has anyone thought about this?

[adsm08]

I have been a fan of the inline 6 cylinder engine since I found out about them. I would love to have one in my truck, I even have a 200-6 sitting at home. Now for the catch:

The 300-6 doesn't really fit the ranger. It can go in the engine bay, but the hard fan will sit right in the rad and and electric fan wont fit too pretty either. The 300 is 32 in front to back, the ranger's engine bay is 33 1/2 from the front of the stock trans to the back of the rad. The 200 won't pass emissions where I live unless I can find some way to fit it with ported fuel injection.

Has anyone ever seen a PFI/EFI kit for one of those before? I've been looking on and off but never seen one.

 

[sloth69mustang]

just relocate the radiator?

 

[PaleBlue90]

yes they make a EFI for the 200,my buddy has thought about it for his stangs 200

http://www.cliffordperformance.net/

of this should have wat ur lookin for

http://www.classicinlines.com/

 

[Captain Ledd]

Both sites listed are excellent resources.

Thought about it?! I have a Ford 250 I6 (a 200 I6 with a taller deck and longer stroke) sitting in my garage for when my V8 eventually dies right this very moment. Which while currently running good, upon replacing head gaskets discovering that 6 cylinders were .060 over and 2 were .090 on the years supposedly Ford made 302 cylinder walls that were "thin cast", it'll probably be sooner than later.

 

[lumpy4000]

there is also mega squirt.... pretty much custom for whatever application you want to go. i know that allot of the vw guys i used to talk to ran these and even my buddy had this on a 2.0l 16v swap. nice cause it lets you run a standalone fuel management and you control everything from your laptop.

http://www.diyautotune.com/index.html

 

[mentalbreakdown00]

There is a 200 I-6 ranger around me for sale. It fits rather nicely.

 

[adsm08]

just relocate the radiator?

I did think about that, but every configuration I can think of is somewhat impractical. I can't find one with the cooling quality that I want that will fit further forward under the cross brace, and I can't use the remote rad setup in the tech library because that puts it in the bed and I actually use my truck as a truck. The best option I found for a 300 is to get a fan that goes in front of the rad, that those are generally junk.

The other thing that I have considered, but don't think it likely to be practical, is to try and fit a 300 intake to a 200 head. That would allow for what I want to do, and make a nice glob of extra power out of her at the same time. Might just put it on a back burner for now since I already have the 4.0 tranny. I may just play with it while I save up money and try it on my next build.

 

[adsm08]

I'm seeing some fun stuff on these sites, but still not exactly what I'm looking for. Unfortunately while I'm allowed by my local emissions laws allow me to do an engine swap all my emissions controls and fuel system components have to at least meet the standard of what I had stock, so direct port fuel injection or nothing. I heard that classic inlines has a kit that allows for DPI, I just can't find it anywhere. I might just try to get an aussie engine, those are still being built new, with DPI.

 

[Will]

A 4.0 is better than any of those. And it's pretty easy to swap in, if you are a deliberate planner.

My sister-in-law has a new Jasper 200-6 in her '65 Mustang. I would much rather have the 4.0 in that Mustang than the 200-6 in my B2, I can tell you that.

 

[adsm08]

Well my current truck needs a trans and the 4.0 M5 is sitting in the garage waiting to go in. This truck is def getting the 4.0. I'm looking into this for a possible future build. From what I've found a 250 head fits the 200, that with a properly tuned EFI system should actually crank some power out of it. I might go for that in my proposed Franken-Ranger II. As for deliberate planner... I'm more of a rip and tear now, find hardware to replace the lost/broken parts later kinda guy.

 

[Frank The Tank]

eww....... in-line gassers.

I bet you could toss a jeep 4.0 in there.

actually the setup for a jeep may be close to what you want though.

Frank

 

[Captain Ledd]

eww....... in-line gassers.

I bet you could toss a jeep 4.0 in there.

actually the setup for a jeep may be close to what you want though.

Frank

The Jeep 4.0L would fit quite well actually. You need to get pretty friendly with the firewall though, needs a regular doghouse so the oil pump will clear the cross member (I figured a good 6" or so). However, that would leave you with plenty of room to still run a radiator up front.

Sadly I didn't have the skills or equipment at the time... Almost got it in though!

 

[adsm08]

yeah, i also thought about that a few years back and then forgot about it. I'll have to keep that in mind. Good ideas guys.

 

[snake]

Get a 4BT cummins and put in there. I think I got the number/letter combo right, it is a four cylinder diesel like the dodge pickup cummins 6BT but missing two lungs. They used them in bread trucks and package cars.

 

[adsm08]

Yeah, I also considered that, but the amount of work with lift, chop, mod, fab, weld, cut break, etc would just about put my truck over the legal height limits in pa, be for more work than I actually want to do, and be pretty expensive. I would love to dieslize it , but its not happening anytime soon.