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cooked her while haven fun
The 302 is cooked she just didnt like 85 miles an hour with 308s and 35s for about 40 minutes started blowin oil thru the vent pipe into the breather (had blowbye before) valve train klackin and dies everytime I stop at a light and smoken like a skeeter truck ha ha now i have the perfect excuse to do the 351 swap that ive been wanting to do its a 90 full size bronco eddie bower 302 5 speed any ideas on what to do to the 351 before i stick it in i know i need the gears swaped to 4.10s or 4.56s aside from that what can i do to get the most of the 351 i drive it hard I want torque and speed(drive mostly on the highway)nothing to crazy just a real good streetable engine (not a big wheeler)fuel economy is important too just dont want a bone stock moter that wont hold up to towing my camper and hard starts that i like any ideas on cams and other upgrades would be appreciated
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John
Peaple who cant handle a bronco drive jeeps
Thanks
John
Peaple who cant handle a bronco drive jeeps
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Before you put in a 351W, you might want to put in a good RV cam, I will give you more torque, and alittle better HP and mileage than a stock cam, and while your at it, headers would be a good idea also.
If it would be carberated, then a new intake and 4v carb, but I would mostlikly be fuel injected, and I'm not to knoledgable about all that, so I'll stop there.
If it would be carberated, then a new intake and 4v carb, but I would mostlikly be fuel injected, and I'm not to knoledgable about all that, so I'll stop there.
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Flat top pistons, compression makes power.
My 351w is an animal.
I wish I had put in a cam, but I am running the stock one for 86.
I have kieth black hyperwhatever flattop pistons, mildon high volume oil pump, edelbrock air gap intake and 580 holley street avenger.
My 351w is an animal.
I wish I had put in a cam, but I am running the stock one for 86.
I have kieth black hyperwhatever flattop pistons, mildon high volume oil pump, edelbrock air gap intake and 580 holley street avenger.
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fuel mileage?
what kind of mileage do you get with the carb model over the fuely tryin to figure out whether its worth stayin with the fuel injection but if its only a mile or two im going with the carb also was told i could get more power out of the carb any sugestions thanks
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now you got me thinkin
how hard would it be to convert to a carb 351 from a computer controlled 302 and what all would i need ? a friend has a 351 that is carb and i have a 302 fuely computer controlled in my 90 eddie bauer bronco 5 speed is there any certain years that i should want or stay away from and is pretty much a drop in ?ive looked around and there seems to be a lot more performance related parts out there for the carb model as i said i pull a large camper and like to have a somewhat torqey engine and fuel economy is a concern too (i know im asking for alot ) (drive alot of highway) was also told that if i built a strong enough engine that i wouldnt need to change the gears for a while ? not shure about that .
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well. ur gonne need to change ur fuel system for non efi and thats it. unless u got a computer controled tranny. an f4te block is a realy good find, its a roller. if i wer u id up the compression a bit. headers. comp cam torqer cam or extream 4x4 works good. do a decent port job debur everything. get rid of that nasty egr. decent intake and exaust. and u should have a good motor with respectible milage and great power. i did a simialar but i stayed efi.
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maybe
maybe its ok started it and seem to run ok the day before all this happened i changed the egr (thinking this was a good one better than my other one) well all this seemed to happen and i talked to my friend and he said all these symptoms that i have sounded like the egr was bad so i took of the one i just put on and put my old one back on and reset the computer runs ok but now another prob my clutch has no peddle ? ive had to pump it up in the mornings and now nothing any ideas does it sound like the master cylinder or the slave no fluid on the ground .and hose is good how do i identify my trans its a 5 speed
thanks again
john
thanks again
john
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The trans has an id should be on the vehicle tag on the driver's side, but I would suspect that it is the M5OD. The EFI 351 should be a direct swap as long as you have the 351's wiring harnasses it came with originally and it is the EEC-IV harness. Fordfuelinjection.com has some useful information on the EFI if you want more info. It is a swap site though but the information is a good read for learning more about Ford's fuel injection.