Hello guys.

Name is Mike, I have been a member of the forum for some time now and it's an awesome place and a great source of information, I'm living in a little country called Colombia since the early 2000s, warm place to say the least...

Anyway, I wanted to share with you my project truck, it's a 1995 Ford Bronco, 190k original miles, little 302 with E40d.



The only thing I didn't like about the truck was a slight lack of power, finding performance parts or a bigger engine proved to be a problem around here but I found a partial solution in the form of a 70mm turbocharger.(Single turbo set-up).



Installation was interesting, got myself an external 44mm wastegate with a 5psi spring and with the help of a local shop (RS Motors) which mostly works on little 4 bangers, We were able to make it work; used the stock exhaust manifolds with a 2.5" merge pipe to the .68ar t4 based turbine housing and a 3.5" to 4" down pipe.









At this point it was using stock injectors, stock fuel pump, stock maf lol... pulled some timing form the dist by giving it 4 degrees initial and the truck felt much better, boost came in early 2000-2400rpms.

Then it hit me... wanted a little more.



Front mount intercooler.



42lb injectors and Walbro 255lph intank fuel pump.



Quarterhorse & binary editor for tune, had to get the whole ecu(HOG0) thanks to having a latin-american stock one (DRY0) which had no known support.



PMAS blowtrhough maf sensor.

Pulled the heads, installed ARP studs and Felpros gaskets.









As she sits right now, wating for me to learn how to tune her lol, I'm in the reading stage...





I also got an HKS Electronic boost controller, Blow off valve for when I increase the boost, TransGo shift kit; been working with an AEM wideband sensor, she is on low boost (same 5psi gate pressure)...

Will keep this updated as I learn to tune and more money is acquired to be invested... since I'm pretty broke lol.
Would love to get a pair of aluminum heads in the near future.

If you got this far in the thread, thanks for reading.

 

Great work! Aint nothing like a turbo! (except a supercharger lol) but love that whistle! If you get into upgrading the internals you could probably get away with a bunch of boost in the future. You should get this dyno-ed and share the numbers too! This would also help you with your tuning problem and only cost a few hours shop time. though I have no idea what that price would be in Columbia. Good Luck, very cool!

 

Nice unique project. Is it on road only? Pics of smoking tires would add to the mystique

 

Thanks man... I'll take it to the rollers soon for sure

I have read that the first thing to go on these 302 is the block itself, splitting right in the lifter valley, but they say it happens above 500+hp or thereabouts; have also heard that the stock E7s heads have the tendency to lift under boost thanks to having slightly thin deck surfaces and that's why I ended up with ARP studs hoping to avoid that, lifting is supposed to happen above 10-12psi... we will see.

Thank you man, when I first got the Bronco I lived in the country, 4x4 all the time and hauling ***...

Situation changed, went to the city but I just can't sell the truck lol, it has been mostly a pavement queen for the last couple of years being honest, hence the tires, but I just love the 4x4 nature of it, it does see mud from time to time though.

Burnout video will come lol, it's eating tires with hunger.

 

That is pretty cool. Does that intercooler (I assume that's what is near where the bumper used to be) prevent you from putting on the bumper, or do you just have it off because it would prevent air from passing through it?

You could always look for an Eddie Bauer bumper or a diesel bumper that has the cutouts so air can go through the intercooler. I am in desperate need of one of those bumpers now with my diesel swap going on. Plus, I think they look a lot cooler as well.

 

Thanks man, yeah the bumper fits and it looks normal... the efficiency of the intercooler is for sure affected though.

Here it is with the bumper on again, was kinda scared of hitting it with something so...



I have seen the bumper you mention with the cutouts and I need it... it´s in the list lol.