Solid motor. 01-04 heritage with the 5.4 2v.
Single Cab Pickups : Forbidden Fruit
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Yup, under powered over worked. Its like having a the 4.3 votech motor
Needs the 5spd backing it. I had a ball with a 4.3 5spd pickup. It aint fast, but it is fun
I took out the 4.3 and put in a 5.7 even more fun with a 5 sp.
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That’s the cats meow right there. Thats how i learned to drive. Peg leg sucker would get sideways in a heartbeat
Yes but they are extremely underpowered and blow spark plugs.
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that's what i like about the 04-08 f-150's. they were the only late model regular cab trucks i could find that allowed me to recline the seat pretty well, due the extra storage space and suicide doors
I agree on the power output but at 232XXX miles I have yet to blow a spark plug, the heads are cast iron. My buddy has a built 383 in his garage I am thinking about swapping but the old 5.7 just keeps on running.
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Are we talking the same thing?
He's talking the Ford Mod 5.4 blows plugs. Those are aluminum headed. He's not talking about SBC engines.
The lightnings were more prone to spark plug blow out than the NA 5.4. Not the most powerful but the best lowend tq of the big 3.
The 2V spark plug threads were updated in 03, essentially fixing that issue.
Exactly. An if you want to get real fancy you can pick up some aluminum Vortec heads from Summit. If I ever have to build another MPI SBC for a boat that's what I'm going to do.
Exactly. An if you want to get real fancy you can pick up some aluminum Vortec heads from Summit. If I ever have to build another MPI SBC for a boat that's what I'm going to do.
I want to build a budget vortec-headed sbc sooooooooooooooooo bad. Problem is i dont have anything to put it in haha.
It's an SBC, you can literally put it into anything!
Sounds like a hell of a job todo
I thought the Ford heads had problems with the spark plugs seizing and stripping out the threads.
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That's the early 3Vs. That was fixed around late 08.
It wasn’t fun, had a little help with another tech at the time. I had to laugh when the service manager drove it after to make sure all was good. Pulled it back in check engine light came on I missed a emissions thing hooked it right back up all good. But he popped the tire on the rack arm and had to eat the cost. A Goodyear F1 or whatever they put in it wasn’t cheap.
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I'd this a long bed? Can't tell.
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