Cheap Horsepower?

[00merc]

Let's take a look at cheap horses...

Dual Exhaust

How much would that Marauder airbox and MAF be, does it come with the whole intake?

k&n, of course.


anything else? let's get some items and some prices for the 4.6's cheapest way to horses!

[DuceAnAHalf]

Dual exhaust is good for about 10 HP dont go over 2.5" on a stock motor, you will kill your low end torque.

I believe the Maraurder airbox and MAF will give you about 15 hp but the airbox and MAF cost about $200, and then the chip you have to have costs another $250-$300

A K&N MIGHT give you about 1/2HP at 7000RPM, but it allows more dirt past the filter and into the engine, and if it is installed when the oil is not completly it will screw up your MAF. sitck with a paper filter the biggest restriction on a 4.6 is the heads and intake, so until you change those a K&N is about worthless.

If you want cheap power buy a Box panther

[BigTomZ]

No don't buy a box Panther. Dont waste your money on a five point slow.



Dual Exhaust is cheap and easy and will get you a good 10 hp.

Dual Exhaust you should be able to get off a P71 at a junk yard for very cheap. Probably like $100.



Marauder airbox, MAF, and chip or flash tuner with a good premium feul tune can get you a good 20 horses, if you go through a good tuner.

Marauder MAF and airbox runs for $160. You'll also need a chip or tune (i suggest the SCT Xcalibrator) to run it. That goes for about $300.



Steeda Underdrive pulleys will get you a good 8 hp, and on my car they seem to get me up into the powerband quicker.


Of course if you want alot of horsepower for cheap, nitrous is the way to go. You can handle a 125 shot on the stock motor, though I would probably run a 75 or 100 shot.

[Blaze86Vic]

Box Panthers have more cheap options to gain power. Also, major upgrades are cheaper with 5.0L than with 4.6L

[texasvic]

I think we should stop the arguments about which is better.

They can both make insane amounts of power.

[DuceAnAHalf]

I think we should stop the arguments about which is better.

They can both make insane amounts of power.

i dont think anyone is arguing that one is a better motor or one is not. Me and blaze are just saying that it is much cheaper and easier to get power out of a 5.0/5,8, mostly because of the nearly 40 years of development that have gone into performence parts for it, as opposed to the 10 years of development with the mod-motor

[Blaze86Vic]

:stupid:

Yeah, I'm not sayin one is better or wose, just what he said. More availabel stuff(IE used crap).

[Mercracer]

Seeing as Ford and everyone else agrees (me by personal experience with mine) that the 2000 ECM sucks.....can you unplug the ECM and plug a 2001 unit into its place? I know this has come up before... but..... screw the search feature.......

[texasvic]

The 2000 PCM does suck.

A 2001 PCM should be fine as long as the 2 cars had the same RAR.

The only engine difference between the two years is the PI heads, which don't require any different programming to run.

[Mercracer]

A 2001 PCM should be fine as long as the 2 cars had the same RAR..

I am slow tonight....what is RAR?

[texasvic]

Rear Axle Ratio

[Mercracer]

Rear Axle Ratio

That would be changed anyway on a single exhaust car, so that is not an issue.

[p71towny]

Cheap HP for the 4.6, hah! Thats what I bought a box for. Does anyone know if the 4.6 firing order is the same as the 5.0 cause I got an idea brewing in my head and it involves my towncar and a donor 90 towncar :drug:

[texasvic]

4.6 Firing Order

1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8

[p71towny]

The same as a 302 HO firing order, excellent. see I want to see if I could drop a 302 in the towny and pop in the injectors and such and use the dis wiring harness off an explorer or something to keep all my wiring the same. Since the 90 towncar is the first year for the new body but still has the 5.0 I might be able to make it work. But who knows, this is for way down the road.