What performance inhancements really work on a ranger?

[mjonesjr]

Best tuner out there for Rangers right now is Fred at www.rogueperformance.com. He is awesome at tuning a Ranger. He uses the XCalibrator series.

 

[EERNGER]

I hate to dig up an old thread for a dumb question, but i do have one. I am looking into getting a bama tune for my 02 ranger and it asks for a CALIBRATION CODE. where do you find that? i tried to get the link for finding it but it sends me to the sct website and i am easily lost in the hundreds of diffrent chips available and i cant seem to find out where to look! can anyone point me in the right direction of where to look? thanks

 

[swynx]

greater air flow = greater horse power, but theres not much else you can do for air flow on this motor. i suggest shave the heads. port and polish, that should give it abit more kick. you can try to turbo it but i dont know of many people who have turbo'd a 4.0. and i havent gotten any feed back on weather its worth it or not

 

[351rangerxxx]

351w.

look for code on the ecm itself.

 

[EERNGER]

351w.

look for code on the ecm itself.

thanks man, thats what i was looking for!

 

[Nhaz]

I met and talked with a guy today that has an 07' ranger with the same profile as my 08' has. He has spent 2 years trying to get the most performance and feul economy out of his rig as anybody I have talked to. Since he ownes a local parts house I'm gonna assume he knows his business. He get's 18-22 mpg. depending on driving location. The mod's he has chosen are as follows;
1. K&N FIPK cold air induction
2. Flo master exhaust. (cat back)
3. Performance programmer from Bama chips. (seems to be what everybody uses on 4.0's)
4. Royal purple full syn. oil in motor and ALL other cases.
5. 30 + pounds of cooler, beer, and ice up against the tailgate.
Not sure which did the job, but I'm looking into this!

Im betting on the beer!

 

[Beanmachine7000]

Im betting on the beer!

Beer usually makes most numbers bigger

 

[Frank The Tank]

I get 22mpg out of my stock 04...... he must be doing something wrong.

Frank

 

[firedup]

I have an 87 bronco 2 with a 2.9. I port matched and polished my intake and intake runners, releived the valve bowels, and port matched the exhaust sides also. Gained 1000 RPM and alot of bottem end. It improved the milage about 3 miles per gallon

 

[Big Jim M]

You must have gave it a good tune-up at the same time to get anything noticeable.
Big JIm

 

[Branger2B]

I have an 87 bronco 2 with a 2.9. I port matched and polished my intake and intake runners, releived the valve bowels, and port matched the exhaust sides also. Gained 1000 RPM and alot of bottem end. It improved the milage about 3 miles per gallon

Did soem of the same mods when we did up my 2.9l, The intake makes the biggest difference, we removed alot of aluminum, and it woke the motor right up lots of torque bottom end, and ran up to 6500rpm no prob, and fast. this was before we coverted it from speed density to MAF. The conversion from Speed Denstiy to MAF made the biggest difference.

 

[Branger2B]

You must have gave it a good tune-up at the same time to get anything noticeable.
Big JIm

2002 ranger with 31's.. sounds like a pretty extreme 4x4. you should get an accout on pirate.

 

[vicma762004]

This is my first truck, ive owned plenty of 5.0 stangs and have found out that headers, CAI and exhuast dont really do much unless you up grade your heads first but do they even make HIC upgrades for 4.0 Rangers or do we have to move up to a bigger 302 engine <<<<< is this possible???? lol forgive me as im new to the ranger game but am enjoying the heck of my current truck.

 

[1996DANGERRANGER]

well the stock intake flows more air than the valves will put in the motor. ford undersized the valves way to much! but if you go to the tech library and go to the 4.0 motor, there is a link to a guy who specializes in performance and has differnt stage heads you could swap in that would give you so much power and increased fuel economy. i have a hypertech programmer and it helped a little bit but my truck being a 96 with 174k on it its just tired. all i gotta say is run fullsynthetic especailly for you who have newer rangers. it will help SO much in the long run. and try to change your fuel filter every other oil change. its def overkill but it helps