The 351W is a great place to start especially when I already have one. You don't have to invest much to get this motor to become a ground pounder. In regards to sound, listen to some 5.8 Lightning's on YouTube with Bassani mufflers, nothing like it in my opinion!

 

Something I hadn't thought about was supplying fuel to a performance engine with the dual tank setup. Is it as simple as upgrading the in line pump or would the in tank pumps need upgrading as well.
Another option would be to swap to a big single tank and use a good in tank pump to run everything.

 

I would think the stock pumps would be sufficient unless you're going boost...could be wrong though.

 

That depends on how much engine I go with.

 

Pretty sure the inline pump was only an 87-91 thing. Your truck should have one pump in each tank, no framerail pump.

Good news is, there's plenty of places that make higher LPH fuel delivery modules for this setup. Slide off old FDM, slide on new FDM, done.

That said, the 92-96 trucks all had the same LPH pump, regardless of engine. If memory serves me correctly, the stock pump is 120 LPH.

 

I believe Bob that 90 or 91+ have no on the rail fuel pump because my brothers 91 F250 460 has no on the rail fuel pump. But yes the 92-96s did have the non inline fuel pump.



My dream built engine would be a super charged 6.8L V10 in one of these older trucks.
That or a nicely built 460 like we had in the 93 F250 we had before (that is for one of the F250s+ trucks)
Trav

 

120 doesn't seem like much. I ran a 255 lph on my last build. Very different setup with different needs though.

 

Here ya go dude, a very informative article about choosing a fuel pump and injector size. You'll have to decide what engine you're going to build, what your power goals are, etc before picking a pump...hope this will be helpful to you.

CLICK

 

I'll check into that. I need to decide how much I want to spend on the build. The 351 seems to be the best option at this point, but part of me wants to recreate the engine I sold to buy my truck with.

 

I'm bumping this up with one final question. I'm going with a small block and keeping a manual tranny. Since I'll be running a manual and MAF, could I use a Mustang computer and wiring harness or does the games need to come from a truck. Just trying to expand myoptions of sourcing the wires out.

 

Another bad *** engine would be a fuel injected 429.. Vroom vroom

 

You will need a harness from a truck.

 

Glad to hear you decided on a engine platform - keep us up to date on your build.

If money was no object for me, I'd be dropping in an Ecoboost engine. Either the 2.0l or the 3.5l. I'm only running 2WD with stock size tires and don't typically haul heavy loads, so I don't need the power most of you are talking about. The 4.9l in my truck is cool, but I miss revving the **** out of an engine (looking forward to getting my Mustang back out ). The big thing for me is not having to stop for fuel as often and besides going diesel, reducing the displacement is the way to do it. Having the turbos keeps the power in the same ballpark (if not higher) and keeps the torque down low where I might need it if I did decide to carry something heavy. On top of all that, it would be unique. If I went the 2.0l route there would be a lot more room under the hood too. All in all, that would my ideal setup for this truck.

 

Thanks.

I'm on the hunt for a bare block to start with but it may be a while because I'm moving next week and I'll be broke for a while.

 

I'll start a new build thread when I get a block.