Rebuilding a 2.0 Question.

[83Ranger]

Right now I am starting to fix up my old 83 with a 2.0 and no I am not going to engine swap it.............yet. I am trying to get it back on the road but having to replace the rad. core support cause it is rusted trough and the front fenders to due to the same problem of rust.

I have a Racer Walsh intake and Weber two barrel ready to go on it when it get rebuilt in the very near future, but would also like to add a little lope to it but do not have any idea about which cam to get for it. Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed. I want to daily the truck and be able to get it up above the great 60ish hp it has now.


The swap I am thinking about will hopefully be a 2.3 ecoboost from a mustang but that is just in the very beginning stage and probably not going to happen for a couple years or more.

 

[tomw]

Well, since no responses were showing up.

Try racer Walsh or Esslinger. Both used to make parts for the Lima. Multiple cam grinds were available. I think one of the Ranger sites had a comparison of the cam grinds and what they would do torque/rpm/hp wise.
You might even find info in one of the tech library postings here.

tom

 

[Daniel Black]

Camshafts for these motors are expensive. If you just want it to be more drivable and you're doing an engine swap in the near future you might just swap in a Ranger roller cam. I got a whole 8 plug head that was cracked for $20 to get the cam and followers out of. It's a stock cam so the idle is stock but it does seem to idle smoother and have a lot more pep through the whole rpm range and rev easier. A full on race motor might have some resale value but a lightly modified daily driver is going to be worth very little. Something to keep in mind when the time comes for your engine swap.

 

[YungICY]

I rebuilt my 2.3 and slapped a Holley carb on it, shaved the head and put in a comp cams 280h. I had the same kind of desire for lope it sounds like you have.

Ever since I rebuilt that motor I’ve wanted to pull that cam out and put in a smaller one, here’s a few reasons why:

It doesn’t actually lope unless the motor is cold in winter (which then makes warmup a babysitting job)

My motor doesn’t really idle under 1500 rpm.

I have almost no power until about 2800-3000 rpm.

It just flat out doesn’t work for a daily driver vehicle with a carb. If I was going to do it all over again I would go different in one of two ways.

1: rebuild it exactly the same way but use a Holley efi setup instead of a carb

Or
2: use a carb but go a step or two smaller on the cam such as a comp cams 268h or 260h the latter being the “towing” cam I believe.

Idk how the 2.0 is but my 2.3 even when it had the factory efi was a little sluggish below 3k rpm but would come to life above 3k. The cam and carb combo I have just really amplified that effect to the point that I can’t use it under 3k but she runs like corn through a goose up to 6k.


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