Jerry
The bracket I am told should fit a 351? I just can't decide which route I'll go on the motor for the truck when its time. Well I can say the pocket book will definately influence that. I can do a 306 rebuild for 600bucks through local mahine shop. That is the cheapest! Hey nice new car there! I am jealous. My wife Joy bought a new 2002 SC F150 with a 5.4 etc. While we were down in Austin they had a new jet black 2003 Cobra converatble. I tried to convince her that we could daisy chain the boat and mustang behind my truck when towing so she could buy the Mustang for me.....and her. The SC F150 is in the driveway . Oh well

 

Joe, the bracket will bolt to the head as you know but the blower will be 1" higher than where it is now? I'm not sure if there is enough slack/variance in the blower inlet tube to still fit? I'd stick with the 302 based engine anyway for simplicity's sake.. maybe a small stroker but if you need more power just up the boost! Thanks for the compliments on the car. I do love that F150 SC.. NICE truck!! Cya..

 

Jerry
could I get a POC for the guy who did you custom cam. I have 1.7 rr, but I would like to know what he could do for me. BTW hows life at CISCO. I tried to PM or email you but the system won't let me. You can also email at Kujo007@hotmail.com so we don't take space on beasties thread.
Beastie
I would stick with 2 1/4 exhaust unless you plan on a 351 or blower?
Joe

 

Beastie,

Just to let you know.... You're truck already has the HO firing pattern. The earlier trucks didn't, so they had to swap the cam and/or the wires to do it.

Batch fire trucks could swap firing order without a cam swap, sequential can't without rewiring the injector order to match. This isn't a problem for us, as the later trucks are already using the HO firing order and the sequential injection. As far as I have found all mass air trucks are sequential.

 

Yeah under my hood, on the sticker it says sequential.

And do I need catalytic converted with the "AIR" option?
I think this is what I am going to do, any other suggestions:
DynoMax 289-86054 Ceramic Coated Long tube headers ~ $220
Magnaflow 94315 SS High Flow Cats w/Air ~ 2x $88
Maganflow 14315 SS Mufflers ~ 2x $69
SS 3 1/2" x 12 or 18" whichever will fit ~ $30 each
Piping -$??
Total ~ $600
Roughly, how much would it cost for a shop to do all the work, and the price for all the piping needed?

 

And a Maganflow X-pipe, I forgot

 

I would go w/ air injection too.. at least on 1 of the cats, you don't have to tee it into both. I did snap some pics and they are now in my gallery..

https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=1466

 

Thanks for the pics, they are great. That truck must really see soem muddy conditions.

 

Last thought on this for those that are $$ concious. You can remove the old exhaust w/ a Sawzall and standard hand tools in 90 minutes.. 60 minutes if you've messed w/ headers before and aren't bashful. You can install the long tube headers EASY! The truck has PLENTY of room. Hardest part is mucking w/ the starter but thats 2 bolts. In order to drive it to the exhaust shlop without running open header I took my headers and cats to the shop ahead of time and had them bend up the first 2 "s" pipes that go from the header up and over the crossmember.

I then went home, removed the old exhaust, bolted up the headers, and then bolted the 'S' pipes on and slipped the cats onto the S pipes and snugged the exhaust clamp over them. The cats do a fair job of muffling just don't floor it. That is WAY better than driving open header. I drove it this way back to the exhaust shop and they did the rest..

Jerry