Hey guys. Im gettin ready to build my 1993 F150 a motor. Its 4x4 going to have a zf s5-42 5 speed behind it. Im wanting to have my power right from idle. This is going to be a carb'd motor.

What do you reccomend?

 

What's your budget?

 

$3k. But the maching won't cost me anything and I will be assembling the motor. I remember talking with you before Paul, but I cant remember what you said

 

If I was you and loved my truck like you seem to love yours I would build a special engine with all the best parts I could..i.e.forged pistons,roller cam/rockers,aluminum heads,MSD ignition,headers,do it up!

 

Is the 1993? block already a roller motor?

Whats your setup 393? Im would really like to get as close to 400 horse/tourque as psooible, but i dont want to be turning 5k rpm to do it if you catch my drift

 

Just about any block will need some machining and 0.030" overbore gives you 408 cubes with a 4" stroke. Check out this thread.. https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...tor-ideas.html

 

I started with a `90 5.8 from a F-250 that I bought from a salvage yard. I took it all apart and went over the block with a die grinder to clean the casting flash.Had the block magged,bored .030 over,the crank centerline checked out good. Bought a rotating kit from Summit with cast Eagle crank and Eagle rods.Trick Flow pistons that are made by Probe. Got the TF heads with 2.02`s and ported and polished them. Called Comp Cams and told them what I was building and they made me a custom XFI roller with slightley more lift,I think it`s about .585/.590 w/290/300.I tweeked the Edelbrock 5.8 F.I. intake a little,put a BBK throttle body on it.Long tubes w/fabbed egr tube and dual air injection smog tubes.BBK fuel pumps,30lb injectors,MSD dist.,Digital 6 box,big blue coil.I put the Ford MAF swap kit in it,I changed the wire overlay to the injectors to fire on the 5.8`s timing even though Ford said I didn`t need to.HV oil pump needed clearanced along with the windage tray and rod bolts.I put a 9qt. oil pan on it too.
The important thing is to build the short block strong and all the other things can be changed later on. A 4" stroke will get you more low end grunt,a 3.85" I would consider a happy medium.

 

also why go carbed? since your going with a zf an upgrade to mass air would be simple. find a complete efi mass air harness from 94+ for a 302 running a manual tranny and get the computer also. then just get a dyno tune once motor is in and running.

 

Cost. Intial, its cheaper to build. Down the road, if something goes wrong, its cheaper to replace jets than it is injectors, i would have to trailer the truck over two hours to get to a reputable person to dyno tune it. And its not cheap for that the tune either. I have a buddy who just built a 347 stroker thats mass air in a mustang. He just went through the dyno tuning and everything, not cheap at all.

Simplicity. Something goes wrong, a few screws for adjustments, maybe replace a jet instead of having to find a computer capable of scanning/programming it.

This isnt going to be my daily driver.