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Message: [QUOTE="pt_ranger_v8, post: 968368, member: 13690"] Nothing fancy in here. :flipa: This truck originally started life as a 351/c6 cclb, and it sucked:wtf:. Previous owner had a ~4" lift on it, blocks in the rear, shackle reverse/drop front hangar bracket up front. He also did some ghetto rehab inside, and swapped beds. After driving it for a few months, I swapped in an idi7.3/zf5 combo. Increased my mileage from 6 to 14mpg. I also swapped axles, since the 4.10's we're killing my top end. Since the thing rode like a buckboard with stock lifted leaf springs, I gabbed up some coil buckets and radius arms. Basically, I just copied the bronco/f150 design of the earlier years, and used lift coils for a coil sprung super duty. Had to fab some step bars for the wife & curtain climbers. Built a rear bumper, added some lights. And I've been driving it like this for a couple of years. Stumbled across a 'deal' on an e-superduty, engine, tranny, all the wiring, just go pull it. :thumbup: Now I'm in the process of going through the new block, end goals are 380-400hp, and dead nuts reliability for the next 300k miles. Figuring on honing the cylinders, new rings/crank bearings 17*HPOP Not OBS style intake Either 38R or t4 style turbo Stage 1 160-180/100 injectors Tunes Head studs/valve springs/push rods Inter cooler After I get the engine built, if I can, I'd like to run it on my zf5 while I get cash for a BTS build on my e4od. Not a huge fan of only having 4 speeds, but, if reliability will be there and mileage won't suffer, I'll run it. Pics to come when I'm near a computer, and not at work :pimp:. So far, I've done all the work except rebuild the zf5 and bend the tube fore the coil buckets. For a dumb redneck, I guess it's doing alright :flipa: Some of the needed things: Engine wiring harness Tranny wiring harness Under hood wiring harness Turbo Injectors HPOP All the stuff I listed I want to do to this thing :doh:. [/QUOTE]