roloniko
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Here we go with this wonderful project. We had to modify a few things so far but nothing too major yet. Its been fun since this is a first for me to do something as big as this. My friend is doing most of the work but I'm helping out as much as I can with it. I will say this, when we started this project and tearing apart things we found so many things wrong with it as far with the mods they did previously. It was put together/modified badly. Some of the things were very interesting on how they actually came up with the stuff they modified. We just had to laugh about it.
The engine out of the explorer was actually in great shape!! It did have 177k on it. We weren't as lucky with the (4r70w) transmission. I had it rebuilt and was told it was a very good thing you brought it in. We were also lucky he was a distributor for Advance Adapters and modify some of the parts for us.
On the engine we replaced the Cam shaft, timing chain, (Sanderson) headers, a better oil pickup tube, oil pan and water pump. We did a lot of cleaning and scraping to get all the debris off the engine. It is clean!! Looks like new. lol We painted it black as you can see on the photos. We didn't think we needed anything else at this time because everything else looked great. We thought about roller rockers but thought we didn't need to at this time.
The wire harness was done by EFI Guy. I was also lucky there as well. I had it back in 2 weeks and he only lives 36 miles away from me. The wire harness looked great and had everything labeled. Plus he was very helpful with information and suggestions about my project with the Bronco.
Plus Mike and I did hours upon hours of reading on this site. Whew!!! At times I found myself going crazy and wanted to punch a hole in the wall. lol I eventually found the info I needed.
We did decide to get the valve covers and upper intake manifold powder coated the same color as the bronco.
More to come............
The engine out of the explorer was actually in great shape!! It did have 177k on it. We weren't as lucky with the (4r70w) transmission. I had it rebuilt and was told it was a very good thing you brought it in. We were also lucky he was a distributor for Advance Adapters and modify some of the parts for us.
On the engine we replaced the Cam shaft, timing chain, (Sanderson) headers, a better oil pickup tube, oil pan and water pump. We did a lot of cleaning and scraping to get all the debris off the engine. It is clean!! Looks like new. lol We painted it black as you can see on the photos. We didn't think we needed anything else at this time because everything else looked great. We thought about roller rockers but thought we didn't need to at this time.
The wire harness was done by EFI Guy. I was also lucky there as well. I had it back in 2 weeks and he only lives 36 miles away from me. The wire harness looked great and had everything labeled. Plus he was very helpful with information and suggestions about my project with the Bronco.
Plus Mike and I did hours upon hours of reading on this site. Whew!!! At times I found myself going crazy and wanted to punch a hole in the wall. lol I eventually found the info I needed.
We did decide to get the valve covers and upper intake manifold powder coated the same color as the bronco.
More to come............