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iam planning on putting a after market throttle body on my 2002 king ranch its a 5.4, but i dont know the size of the stock tb.im guessin a 7o mm and if i get a bigger tb can i hone out the plastic manifold.
iam planning on putting a after market throttle body on my 2002 king ranch its a 5.4, but i dont know the size of the stock tb.im guessin a 7o mm and if i get a bigger tb can i hone out the plastic manifold.
Don't waste your money-there's no gains to be had from a larger throttle body-none. The intake manifold is the restricitve piece on your 5.4L,not the throttle body.
JL
i alreadyhave a k@n intake system and flowmaster exhaust.i was hopein a bigger throttle body would help better.plus im goin to put on aset of headers.
To be honest-you've gained very little HP with the mods you have listed. The intake manifold is very restrictive-it's like this to make cylinder filling efficient at low RPM and this cylinder filling makes torque. Problem with this...if you enhance low RPM cylinder fill-you hurt high RPM filling-the air goes sonic as it travels through the manifold and that's where airflow stalls. The 5.4L 2V is a good engine,but it's not a HP maker unless you add forced induction.The intake manifold and cylinder heads are the cork on the 5.4L. The 2V cylinder head is barely sufficient to fill a 4.6L,a 5.4L's larger displacement shows it's inadequacy even more.
JL
i have heard of people putting the lightning manifold onto the non-lightning 5.4L that will get you some serious hp increases but thats because they usually transfer the supercharger that comes with the lightning manifold right? strictly speaking, is the lightning manifold any different than the non lightning (besides obviously the fact that the lightning has a super on top)? or are there differneces in the basic manifold designs?
i have heard of people putting the lightning manifold onto the non-lightning 5.4L that will get you some serious hp increases but thats because they usually transfer the supercharger that comes with the lightning manifold right? strictly speaking, is the lightning manifold any different than the non lightning (besides obviously the fact that the lightning has a super on top)? or are there differneces in the basic manifold designs?
The Lightning manifold has an intercooler in it,and if you remove it-the plenum volume would be huge,and unsuitable for N/A use.The runners are too short as well.
JL