New guy from MT

[Unsullied_Spy]

Hello all, I'm Steven from Bozeman, MT. I picked up my '06 Ranger from a state auction in Washington (used to belong to the Agriculture department at the Walla Walla community college) with 146k miles on it last year it and shortly thereafter I had the infamous blown thermostat housing followed (about 800 miles later) with a failed timing chain tensioner. Now just over 170k miles and loving it! I haven't done much other than fix a few things that were worn out when I bought it but it's got Ultra Badlands wheels (I'm still not 100% sure about them, but I got a great deal on them) and my old Alpine CDE-103.

Currently I have an Eaton M90 supercharger from a 1990 Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe that I'm considering installing on it, so I have been a lurker on this forum for quite some time looking for information on the install and trying to get over my cold feet about the upgrade, anybody with advice or any input it's greatly appreciated! I'm also working on retrofitting some HID Bi-Xenon projectors into the headlights. I did a write-up on this for my Subaru Legacy but after looking around on this forum it appears there's already an excellent one here so I likely won't post anything other than finished pictures of them.

Playing around in the hills:

 

[Mark_88]

Welcome to TRS Steven!

I had to look since I love spy novels...lol

There is a section on forced induction in the forums that might have information...I don't know...I don't go there often...but depending on the engine you have there is probably a forced induction bolt-on all ready for your engine...unless it is the 3.0...which might still have one but...like I said...no idea.

Good to see you found the lighting write up and hopefully it was helpful...

Always room for more good write ups and experienced wrenchers are always welcome...

 

[Unsullied_Spy]

Thanks for the welcome! I've got the 4.0 SOHC but as of today I'm canning the plans for supercharging because I bought an '03 Mach 1 so I'll put the supercharger back on eBay and roll that money into the payment.

Moddbox posted a very informative write-up on using his supercharger kit on the SOHC engines, I was considering his kit though it is quite expensive.

I'm still waiting on my back ordered projectors but I've done a few retrofits before and these are fairly straightforward trucks to do, the stock lights are just awful!

I'm always trying new things and try to share for others' benefit so hopefully you'll be seeing me around now and then.