I'm going domestic with a blue oval bruiser! Well I was going to run my 2.3 Ford turbo just the way it was with 150k miles, but the snowball started rolling. I decided to freshen it up a bit and it has gotten out of control from there. The shortblock is out getting machined, the custom ground roller cam is on its way from California, the intakes are being shipped to Illinois for porting and a new throttle body and the head was up to me. I couldn't afford the big bucks to port it so to the bench I went and this is what I've come up with:
The head is really restrictive in stock form so a ton of metal was removed. From here it goes to Heads Up Cylinder Heads for a full radius grind, oversized stainless valves and machining for the new roller cam. The header is orderd as well as the new turbo. Based on others who build and tune these engines I believe I should "easily" be in the mid 300hp range with the ability to boost it up and run methanol injection or race gas to break into the 400hp club. Man my 6 rib is gonna hate this! Gotta love bulletproof blue oval 4 bangers. Pistons are backorderd so updates to follow pending parts and machine shop schedules. Hopefully I will have some left over for a little dyno time.
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