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Old Nov 30, 2008 | 04:25 AM
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2001 Ford Ranger

i have a 2001 Ford Ranger 4.0 L. i don't know too much about cars but i wanna know what i could do to it to make it faster and have better fuel economy. could anyone help me out?
 
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Old Nov 30, 2008 | 06:41 AM
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Get your self a AEM brute force intake, a gibson dual sport catback exhaust and a bama engine programer. That should be good for 15-20 hp abd 20 foot pounds of torque. You can reach bama at bamachips.com.
 
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Old Nov 30, 2008 | 07:02 AM
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That and some decent tires.
 
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Old Nov 30, 2008 | 07:04 AM
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A intake won't do anything for power or economy on a Ranger, it comes from the factory with a cold air intake. Just look behind the passenger headlight and there's the inlet tube. In fact if you replace it with a cone filter it will actually get worse as it will be heated be the engine.

The 4.0 is not what you would call a fuel economy motor, at best I get 15mpg. That's with a 4.0 and 32's with 3.73 gears.

A programmer is going to be your best bang for buck mod, I really like my Xcal2 it has 3 tunes that you can switch between at anytime. I have 87 economy tune, 91 octane performance, and 91 towing tunes.
 
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