Originally Posted by Beanscoot

"I didn't state a price in the add.(sic)"

I think that we found the problem. Buyers will be much more likely to contact a seller who states a price, even if they want to offer less, because they at least have a ball park range for the price.

Also, you can post a link to your ad so we can look at it from the viewpoint of a buyer, and possibly give constructive suggestions.

Slightly different wording can make a sale. A few years ago a friend was selling a car hoist and had no interest for several months. A mutual friend of ours who is a former head-shrinker looked at the ad, made a few seeming trivial changes, and the item then quickly sold.

Originally Posted by The other Joe

Again, great info.

The Ranger sounds like a fun little truck to raise hell with. I bet it was very "traction limited".
I see you wrote the power band goes to 5500. Does it run out of air there? Or is it valve train parts that limit it to 5500?

I have a barn full of old Oldsmobile big blocks. They run up to 5500-6000 rpm.
I would expect a small block to go much higher.

Thanks for all this Ford education!

Joe W

Originally Posted by baddad457

It was likely the stock roller lifters that limited it. I had new springs on the heads, but nothing fancy to allow it to rev higher. Also had ported E7's (instead of GT40's) with the stock E7 valves on it. The stock F4TE cam is basically a mild RV grind, certainly not a high rpm cam. Running it with 1.7 Cobra rockers, it's about equal to the HO grind (.445/.473 lift, 256/266* duration, the HO is .445/.445 with a 276/266 duration, or 276/276 depending on what book you get the specs from)

Originally Posted by Beanscoot

The other Joe:

I apologize for the offending post.
I didn't mean to imply that a misspelled word was the problem with your ad, rather that it was the lack of a price.
I removed the offending post.