By no means my first Ford. I managed to get into a 96 F-250, my first powerstroke. No frills, super stock. Manual tranny, 2wd, single cab. 186K miles and not one mod done to it. I've been reading on hear a bit and have a pretty good idea of what I want to do and what order.

I have some Pricol EGT and Boost gauges and the Auro Force OBD2 gauge should be here by the end of the week. I'd like to get those in, and take some test runs to get some base line readings while she's still bone stock.

I'm about half way on figuring out my two tank wvo setup. Trying to do it right, while keeping the cost down.

Ditch the stock air box for the napa 6637.

Pull the pancake down pipe and fit whatever I can in there. I see everyone is using 3". Is that all you can get in there? I helped a guy put a SD engine in a OBS. He said he had done some cutting on the firewall make room for the 4" down pipe, but it was all covered back up by the time I got there so I don't know how much cutting had to be done. Has anyone tried taking a 4" pipe and crushing it into a oval shape maybe 3'"-5". Just a thought.

I figure thats a pretty good start, and I got more learnin to do before I get into the real performance mods.

Thanks for the knowledge gained already, and feel free to correct me if something sounds off(I'm a newbie here).

 

Welcome to FTE and it sounds like you are starting off on the right foot.

 

welcome

 

sounds like quite the start.
the 3" DP should be plenty unless you're looking for big hp.
tymar performance also has a 3"-3.5"-4" dp that gets bigger as soon as room is available. i've heard alot of good about it.
good luck and welcome to FTE