worth the time to v8 a 2wd ranger?

[Mac]

I know of several that have done that but not sure of the body. They say its not hard at all. And it does make a fun little street truck. Now that I think of it, one of the guys live over there in Iowa.
Dave
http://www.v8-ranger.com/blue/blue.php
Edit; Just realized on the way to the mailbox that the link I sent is one guy who did in his '94', said he loves it.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I know of several that have done that but not sure of the body. They say its not hard at all. And it does make a fun little street truck. Now that I think of it, one of the guys live over there in Iowa.
Dave
http://www.v8-ranger.com/blue/blue.php
Edit; Just realized on the way to the mailbox that the link I sent is one guy who did in his '94', said he loves it.

That would be a neat swap, but I have way too many "neat" things to do that I probably never get to that though.

 

[Sighman]

and what are you running for an ignition system, duraspark?

Accel Super Coil and Street Billet Electronic Distributor

 

[Boggin]

Thanks man, do you have any diagram or would you be able to explain how they are wired in? was there any splicing involved, and did you use pieces of the stock 88 harness to hook it all up?
thanks

 

[Sighman]

Well what I did was to find the wire on the ignition that went hot when the key was turned on and ran it to the distributor and coil. I would of used the old wires but as stated my son had cut most of them. As its an 88 and I went with a simple carb setup I only had to run a couple wires. My alternator is the one from the old motor so it was a 3 wire system. I looked up the wiring diagram for a simple 3 wire Ford alternator and regulator and just ran all the wires accordingly. The starter wire was still there so I just used it. All my gauges are mechanical so that was pretty straight forward. The one hiccup I had was the reverse lights. I went with a B&M shifter and wired the reverse switch to a relay that turns on the reverse lights. Behind the dash all I had to find was the wire that was used for gauge illumination and tap into it as well as the power when the key is on. I got a hold of a simple tester that lights up when voltage was there, cost me all of $4, I found it to be most valuable. I soldered all my connections and then heat shrank them. I also used crimp on connectors where needed but once again I soldered them and heat shrank the connections. Heck the old computer is still in the truck! Thank god the boy didn't cut all the headlight and door and window wires!

Unfortunately all the diagrams that I used got lost in a computer crash but I got them all from doing searches here and on Google. If you go with a simple system like I did there isn't much you need.

 

[Boggin]

had an ad up on the local classifieds and a guy just emailed me, said he got a 83 supercab with a 302 and c6. said it runs perfect, hopefully ill go look at her this week. shes only around 20 mins from me too