Conversation Between cman1120 and Tony's250

I hear ya on that man haha. Mods like exhaust, cold air intakes, new spark plugs and wires can cause your engine to run better and get a HP boost while at it I've spent over $3000 on the old girl within the last year, and spending a whole lot more $$$ doesn't sound that great, good thing I don't have a girlfriend or I'd be double broke lol.

Sounds good. I know the "official ratings" from Ford or any other manufacturer are low, when they actually dyno out higher but i was just curious as to what you had done to get there. I'll have to look at the cold air intake and and other smaller mods as i don't want to get to crazy, mine is used mostly for a daily driver and towing. She's too damn big to be a hot rod. lol

I have not modded it much at all, just replaced the spark plugs with Bosh Platinum ones, added a cold air intake, added a freeflowing duel exhaust, which probably increased the HP by 20-40 total with everything. more to come down the road after I get $$$$. I got the 250HP initial rating from a friend of mine who was a mechanic for Ford awhile back. I estimated with the mods, the HP is likely in the 280-290 range, although they probably aren't 100% accurate. I read somewhere that they were 250HP from the factory as well. 210HP sounds a bit low to me, but I am not a mechanic so I cannot be 100% sure. I know one way to calculate HP is torque X RPM/ 5280. I did estimate@3000RPM and got 287HP approx. As soon as I can get it up on a dyno, I will know for sure.
Thanks for the question,
Charles

Hey there cman, curious, in your post you note that your 92' 5.8 is pushing 290HP. Have you done any mods to it? I've got a 93' F250 with a 5.8W and i didn't think they were rated that high? I thought they were in the 210Hp range?
Thanks,
Tony