I want to turbo/ or supercharge my Ranger any suggestion ps I really just want more HP

[85_Ranger4x4]

*cough, puke, gasp* buy a chevy (I just threw up in my mouth a little)... aftermarket support for modding up a chevy is 10x what there is for ford....

Yeah, so much easier/cheaper...

Pit Stop: Supercharging a Normally-Aspirated 3800 Series II V6 Engine

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04-11 Ranger/B4000 Supercharger Installation Kit - ModdBox

 

[Brain75]

$2200 for a full kit w/o the blower and another $100-200 for the blower in a junkyard a lot cheaper than I figured you could do it. Course if you go ebay you are lookin at $500 starting I bet.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

$2200 for a full kit w/o the blower and another $100-200 for the blower in a junkyard a lot cheaper than I figured you could do it. Course if you go ebay you are lookin at $500 starting I bet.

That is for the Ford 4.0 though...

 

[Brain75]

yup, I saw that... don't think you are gonna find a 3.0 kit anywhere, have to have a machine shop custom make you the intake.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

yup, I saw that... don't think you are gonna find a 3.0 kit anywhere, have to have a machine shop custom make you the intake.

Whipple did make one, they pop up once in awhile.

 

[Mechrick]

My understanding is that a stock computer should be able to handle that

Nope.

2-3 psi, maybe. A retuned stock PCM with big injectors, maybe. A blower with a rising rate fuel pressure regulator, maybe. The correct way to do it is an aftermarket controller with a big injector. Or remap the stock PCM with a big injector.

The problem is always fuel flow. From the factory it's barely adequate for stock power levels.

 

[Jim Oaks]

A 4.0 SOHC is 207 horsepower. The biggest downside to the Ranger is the transmission. My 1996 4.0 OHV has eaten two of them. Even the 5.0 powered Explorers have been known to have transmission issues.

At least with forced onduction you're building power as boost increases, so you're not dumping a bunch of power and torque to the transmission from a dead stop.

Car manufacturers are more likely to boost a small engine than to put in a big engine. It's easy to say put a V8 in it, but I admire the creativity of boosting what's already there.

 

[superj]

Megasquirt it

 

[Blmpkn]

Megasquirt it

That's what she said.




ZING!


Off to the corner I go.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

That is for the Ford 4.0 though...

The SOHC 4.0 to be specific…

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

That's what she said.




ZING!


Off to the corner I go.

At least you know where you belong for that one…

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Nope.

2-3 psi, maybe. A retuned stock PCM with big injectors, maybe. A blower with a rising rate fuel pressure regulator, maybe. The correct way to do it is an aftermarket controller with a big injector. Or remap the stock PCM with a big injector.

The problem is always fuel flow. From the factory it's barely adequate for stock power levels.

There’s people claiming to run stock computers with up to 10 psi of boost. I’m not saying that I’ve done it or even that it’s going to work well. Just that I’ve heard of it being done. I’m guessing it probably works or can be made to work well enough easy enough. I’ve heard a lot about changing injectors. Is that the best way? Of course not. Are you using the full potential of the upgrades? I’m guessing probably not. Personally, I think that most of our vehicles electronics have become so aged that going to something aftermarket like a MegaSquirt system probably should be a consideration for a lot of us, regardless of modifications. And after the fight I had with my green Ranger’s fuel system, that should be overhauled too. Who would have thought that 25 year old plastic fuel lines could ever be a problem. Or putting a new pump in the Choptop not because the old one wasn’t working but because I was putting in a new gas tank and found that the truck ran way better. So yeah, I don’t exactly disagree, those are things that should be addressed.

 

[Brain75]

I got to thinking, and for $2,200 (just the adapter kit, no blower). I would buy a 4.0 OHV Ranger with a good title and start over, either one with a decent motor that runs or a cheap one that "cranks, but no start" off facebook. Around where I am at you can get your pick of a lot of Rangers for under $3k you just have to speak spanish or be willing to start with a "transmission blew out @ 300k" kinda gig.

(Loveland is 3hr west of me and on the "front range" - the whole mega metro that extends from Wellington to Colorado Springs following I-25, nothing but city for that whole stretch now. I drive to Loveland area to hit up junkyard #3 often enough...)

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I got to thinking, and for $2,200 (just the adapter kit, no blower). I would buy a 4.0 OHV Ranger with a good title and start over, either one with a decent motor that runs or a cheap one that "cranks, but no start" off facebook. Around where I am at you can get your pick of a lot of Rangers for under $3k you just have to speak spanish or be willing to start with a "transmission blew out @ 300k" kinda gig.

(Loveland is 3hr west of me and on the "front range" - the whole mega metro that extends from Wellington to Colorado Springs following I-25, nothing but city for that whole stretch now. I drive to Loveland area to hit up junkyard #3 often enough...)


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That kit is for the 4.0 SOHC

 

[Brain75]

understood, but I refuse to own one of those rube goldberg monstrosities !