The past week we have been working very, very, very hard on getting our new Aluminum built Shortblock into FFW's Tuff Truck 2005 class winner's Lightning. The Shortblock is dressed in stock stroke and bore trim with Manley internals. This is the 4th Alum block we have installed in a Lightning. The owner Don Justice of North Carolina will be sporting his Aluminum motor with a pair of JDM ported heads and Crower custom ground .530" lift JDM cams. The heads that we used for this application are actually 4.6 heads. With the 4.6 heads you also get a set of cam girdles which help keep harmonics when turning 6000 plus RPM. This will add strength, balance, and durability . The Lighter aluminum block helped displace some of the weight added by Don's new roll cage. Along with that we added a new JDM Engineering battery reloaction tray which goes underneath the bed of the truck and gets the weight as low and to the rear of the truck as possible. With more and more trucks turning into 1/4 mile built vehicles this tray is a great added touch! Ill post pics on that later.

Here is some pics of Dons new motor, it is getting a whippe 2.3 blower and we plan on making 700 to the tires on 19 psi. Thats whipples 3.375 stock upper pulley and a 8lb lower. We dont need a 2.75 and 10lber to make this bad boy sing! When the time comes this truck will see a few little suspension upgrades like rear shock relocation and different traction bars to help shoot for the 9 sec zone NO SPRAY!! You can see in the pics the new motor mount that is required on the driver side. This is the only part you will have to buy to drop in our Aluminum shortblock!!

JimIII

 

way to go guys.... i think i heard WHIP say that i can get my truck in and you guys can get his back to him in august...LOL just kiddin Whip.. youll have a mean setup too im sure of it..

 

Curious what oil filter adapter/water outlet you guys are using?

Is a Ford part, or a custom made part?

 

2000-2003 F150

going to be in FFW Orlando Casey?, we need some fast trucks there!!

JimIII

 

If you want to ship me a new motor so I can put this truck back togeather I will be there!

 

Oh sorry man I didnt know it was apart right now.

Ill bring one down and we'll throw it in at the track Hope you get it up and running good again.

JimIII

 

damn, I want an aluminum block...

 

Yeah; guess I am the first one to break a forged crank

Those aluminum blocks sure do look nice, but I can't afford a regular short block as is

 

Very Nice motor...Wow!! I like those HP #'s

 

Nice Don! I know you'll be busy with FFW but bring it to Greer one Thursday and lets play.

Dennis

 

That looks awesome, nice job

 

Awesome, any pictures/info on the 4V aluminums?

 

Hopefully this spring when we get some time cleared we want to bring in V's truck for the 4v conversion.

JimIII

 

jim anyone with one of your 3valve aluminum engines will be able to upgrade for a 4valve in the future ? Any idea how much the upgrade will be ? I send you a private message.