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02 Ford Explorer TDI Swap
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[QUOTE="Fordguy100, post: 1327222, member: 7933"] Well our family is getting to big for our B4V, and the Excursion is gone now (no more car payements!). So I was browsing craigslist and happened upon an Exploder with a bad head gasket, and no trans/transfer case (auto/auto sensing transfer case). So I got permission from the wife, and $400 later I had a rolling shell. The thing was friggen dirty, it had a water leak and had mold growing on the seats, dog hair everywhere, etc. I got it home and drained about 20 gallons of gas out of it. I say that -$50 (gas was higher then). Then I found myself a ~170k ALH complete with all the wiring, for $1000. So we set to work cleaning the interior. Shampo'ed everything like crazy, went to town with industrial type chemicals, and got it cleaned up real good. I think we will swap to leather in the future, and I will swap in a 3rd row bench as well (the whole point of this was to be able to hold more people!). So out came the 4.0 SOHC that was locked up. Got it out and pulled spark plugs, 2 of them came out with rusty tips. Poured some random motor oil down the holes of all of them and let is sit for a week. Came back with a prybar and worked the flexplate back and forth, and got it free'ed up. So it will go on craigslist here soon and fetch me back a little money. My parents traded in an 05 escape that had brand new tires on it, turns out they would give them the same price if the older worn exploder tires were on it, so we had them swap some brand new tires on. As far as the TDI goes, I took all the wiring off and labeled it, along with all the hoses and other stuff. I'm going to tear it down and check bearing tolerances, but it should be fine. It will get some ARP head studs, and I'm half tempted to do rods as well. It came from a manual car, so it only has a 10mm pump, which will limits its power output (but it should limit EGT's as well). As far as boost is concerned, I'm thinking I'm going to run compounds, using the stock VNT-15 as the HP, and a turbo in the 30-35 lbm range for the LP one. 10mm pumps in cars will do about 170hp, so I figure in this setting it should do 150-160whp, and hopefully north of 300 wtq. It will be set up fine for an 11mm pump, which should bump it up into the 200whp and 350wtq range easily. Keep in mind, the stock 4.0 will do roughly 170whp and 200wtq. I have a large distance between the back of the engine, and where the shifter needs to go through the trans tunnel. So after measuring, I have decided to use a R150f out of a 95.5+ tacoma 3.4 V6. Not only does the shifter have the right length, but it also allows me to run a 10" clutch. Plus the fact that they are fairly cheap. The reason the 95.5 one is needed, is because the transfer case is a drivers side drop on it. Another thing that is steering me in this direction, is the fact that I can buy an adapter for it already. Explorers could be had as manuals, so picking up the parts to convert it wont be to hard to come by. I will have to tackle how to get the gauge cluster to read properly. My goal is to be able to do the same as, or better MPG's than a Jeep Liberty CRD, which I think I can do considering the manual trans. If I can crack 30mpg on the highway, I'll be one happy camper. [/QUOTE]
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