lol wow you got a smart a** mouth on you kid. and reading about it and actually doing it are to different things, you must be a mustangs and fast fords reader. 35 psi of boost you would blow the heads off it. " i like to take stuff apart and put it back together." well try it in th middle of desert in iraq.
well ied go the carb route until you get the hang of building engines. cause theres alot more to building a blown motor than just slapping a blower on it esp. if you plan on pumping some serious boost in it. you just slap a turbo or a supercharger on a motor its not going to last long. and if you do go efi get the whole set up off a mustang wiring harness all the b.s. that comes with it. but if your going to put a blower on it its going to be a whole lot more of a headache.
I know what im talking about. been there and seen it. And I never said anything about 35 lbs i said 25. I have seen heads blown off of cars, blocks split down the middle, cams broken, piston heads vaporized, and rods thrown. All because of half ass parts and labor while running to much boost. And i appreciate what you are doining in iraq but you dont need to try and put me down by the whole working in the desert thing. I give you props for that....cause frankly i couldn't do that out of choice
ok so your going to sit here and tell this kid whose never built an engine before to build a blown motor with 25 psi of boost just cause you have seen them blown in half. thats probably what will to this kids motor just cause your blowing smoke up his hole.
i guess. check this stuff out dad i put and engine in this morning that ran on a run stand for 20 mins yesterday and pulled a 2150 load. and wouldnt start when i put it in the vehical figured out why. some one replaced the fuel water seperator and put the lines on backwards and no fuel to the injectors? i still cant figure out how it pulled a load that high or even ran for that matter? weird stuff.
It's got a return line, maybe the fuel was running backwards thru the system ? Hell I seen them damn things run backwards. 2 cycle Detroits are strange animals.
This young man clearly has not the time in life, the perspective, nor the experience to do anything but buy a long block as his first attempt to work on any mods to the motor. I tried to bring this out in the other thread titled 'cleveland or gt40p'. Jumping on a blower without any kind of experience is only waisting money on a project than will never be sucessful for him. I saw an example of this by a young man that just had a mind set that he had to have the biggest and best right off with no experience. I tried to tell him but no listen, so he found out the hard way, in the end. Guess what? He reduced not only the motor to junk (broke the block) but the whole car because being young , he already knew it all. This kid also had money to burn and it still didn't help. You don't go above about 12 psi boost unless the tune is near perfect and you have forged parts in the rotating assembly to accept some amount of tune problems along the way. The ca-bitzeing that goes on here about all this is foolishness. Ask me about Kenne Bell on a 5L and with Speed Density fuel injection yet. I run one for the last 4 years. There are things to know about there setup and use. Intercoolers are not manditory for K.B. use on a 5L. Forget the Cleveland motors for the work, cost, hassle and the weight these motor present in a Maverick. There is a lot more work and expense than just the motor. A 347 is a boltin and carburation is an easy 350 + hp if you don't get crazy driving it, and stay alive.
i had no intentions on building the motor all by my self exspecially if i was puttin a supercharger on it, i know the things that could go wrong.i jus want a good strong motor to rebuild really and i knew some one i could get the sc from cheap at the time but im not gettin it. im stuck on either a 302 or a 351 of any kind, or even a 347 if i could find one cheap
OK. since your probably know what you are talking about. And i said HE COULD run 25 psi. But if your wanting to be all high n mighty i guess you can since you have only been on the board for about 2 weeks.
Yea, he COULD also blow the heads off it too. Since when does being "on the board" have anything to do with experieince ? (lavmech's been wrenching on stuff for about 7 years now) The 500 hp Detroit diesel motor in the Kenworth I drive puts out 32 lbs of boost, and that's about the max for it. A few years back Caterpiller made a big mistake in souping up their 3176 diesels, trying to do more with less displacement, it turned into a disaster for them, these engines were also putting 32-35 lbs of boost to accomplish what they did, but they didn't last long. Blown gaskets, cracked heads and multiple other problems resulted from the increased output and boost. And these engine's designs were done with turbocharging in mind, Small block Ford's just don't do well with lots of boost, they were never designed for it. Only way I'd do it is by starting with an aftermarket block, the stock blocks are too weak for that kind of boost. In addition to your reading assignments in the magazines, try also taking time to get "hands on" experince before rattling off build up suggestions to someone who's not much more experienced than yourself.
i thought the stroker kits took a good bit to put together and expencive cause arent you adding to the displacement? if i stroked a 302 to a 347 would i still be able to use all 302 parts like the cam and such? and also what is the most lift without mods that will fit on a 302 or 347? when buying pistons why are there different size piston ring grooves on each piston?
