Accel thruster
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Accel thruster
Anyone have experience with a Accel thruster EFI engine management system , are they ok ??... The reason i ask is because my son is going to buy a ranger with a 2.3 with a turbo 22# of boost , i guess it runs everthing , he says it has 300 hp to the rear wheels , i will find out soon....Lew
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i've had experiance with accel spark plug wires that were new and the spark jumped, i've also had an accel HEI chip/module fail on me with around 10,000 miles on it. I don't like accel products but i have never used one of their more expensive products.
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be careful w/ that engine. I found out how easy it was to screw those up. My old '94 ranger only ran on 2 cylinders when I sold it. lol. The accel engine management should run pretty good without problems. I haven't run one personally, but some ricer guys I used to go to school w/ used to mess with stuff like that. I will see if any of them used it.
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don't let the RPMs stay very high for very long. My brother was driving mine when it dropped 2 cylinders. He left it in 4th gear going 65mph on the interstate for a couple miles after he left the store. LoL. I laughed, but compression test showed hardly any compression on those 2 cylinders so who knows what happened to it.
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I haven't really looked into the boosted 2.3's much, but does it have a stock bottom end or what? Seems that some forged pistons, rods, and maybe a girdle would be needed, but I don't know jack on those little engines. 22psi is quite a bit of boost so maybe head studs too. Port the head and a bigger cam to get those boost numbers down lower for less stress.
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