hey man i need a set of the headers are they ready yet?

 

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yup FRPP been ready for ya

 

how ported are them heads dan?

My headers are done but I'm doubtful at this point that I'll get them to market.

Steve's right though.. just use some FRPP or JBA shorties and save all the trouble. They sound neato but the gains weren't really able to justify the cost.

 

anyone interested

 

are you or anyone else willing to pay 800-1000 for a stainless set? if so i'l get the ball rolling.

 

Middle of the road, stock valves, not huge gains but enough to work quite nicely with a set of Hitech stage II's.... Would gain a bunch with larger valves, I just wasn't gonna go that far at the time....

Intake
lift.......stock......ported
.100......57..........60
.200.....106........116
.300.....143........158
.400.....164........182
.500.....177........194
.600.....187........195

Exhasut
lift.......stock......ported
.100......52..........53
.200......93.........100
.300.....114........132
.400.....130........154
.500.....140........168
.600.....145........170


BTW just got home with my 3v and poked around a bit..... From some quick measurements the intake port looks to be just slightly smaller than a stock PI head cross section, that surprised me. There's a real mismatch of the port roof that could pick up a lot of flow through the system, just have to decide if I'm gonna pull 'em off or not. Also looks like it will gain some nice flow when I remove the IMRC butterflies, at full open they are vertical and the port is tipped a bit, will be a nice addition by subtraction...

 

I finally got a fitting, it was 1/2 npt not 5/8. Now if it stops raining, I'm gonna slap it on.

I'd be down for a set, I could put a couple hundred down but I can't pull the full price right now.

 

here are the 2 5.4 project's at my house right now...

 

get those things goin haha summers almost here and you'll wish you could hop in your stang and go for a drive. im goin through withdrawls already. my cobras been down since december. how much more do you have left to do on each one

 

hunter's (right) is heading to the fab shop this weekend maybe to get the hot and cold piping done for the 76mm hairdryer....


mine i'm finishing up the fuel system and intake this weekend. then i'll have the shop start of the long tubes for it.

 

i will pay that for them i really want some long tube on my supercharged 5.4 engine in my mustang the torque from the motor is insane,im getting the heads ported so some long tube would be the ticket

 

We'll cross our fingers for you that you have better luck than R3d....

 

i hope so, i'm not as calm as r3d. i offered to come drive a rental car thru thier doors and get his car and parts for him.....

 

uhh ohh my luck isnt the greatest to begin with

 

you would kind of think the demand for 5.4 mustang long tubes would be worth making them,**** kooks makes headers for chevy motors in a fox body,there are chevy k members for mustang.am i missing something here? something as simple as a 5.4 swap into a mustang and there is no aftermarket support for us all ford guys? that is a bunch of bullshit ,i am going to be hounding some of these big headers companies bassani,hooker,mac,jba,bbk,i am going to start calling them and asking for product development ,and when i get some one on the line i am going to let them know that they are turning their heads to an item that could have a big demand if someone had the ***** to produce it,i meant what has the world come to?headers for a chevy engine in a mustang? that should be a war crime right there

 

really... mine was 5/8. Bizarre. Note to the troops... the fitting may be 1/2" NPT or 5/8" NPT. Morgan, did you get yours really recently? If so, that may be the new standard fitting size for that hole.

ported 3v can move some serious air but even unported they flow as well on the intake as the best P&P PI heads (a bit less exhaust). Getting rid of the CMC plates entirely with a HPS intake for 3v would be cool. See if bob's ready to play. He'd expressed interest and it'll be a simple modification of the 2v intake. You might get a discount on yours .

Get the ball rolling and I bet the market will make itself. Put em up on the corral and people will come crawling out of the woodwork.

Should get mine back (again grrr....) next friday. They had to bake the new hood for a few days to make sure the moisture content was low enough. Whatcha' all think:



In true-blue of course. Trying to figure out how to carry the flat black into it just right

 

I think it will look good, but thats the hood I've been wanting to get dammit. haha. Where did you get it and how much?

 

trufiber.com 350 + paint. The guys at TPS said that TruFiber is turning out some really great quality stuff so I took their word for it.

Check this out... found a thread by the guy that tuned my car. See why I had him do it:
http://forums.corral.net/forums/show....php?t=1088363

 

Any of you guys who started with a PI F150 5.4 have the stock t.b. elbow laying around? I need one to modify for my 3v motor...

 

Just got mine a couple weeks ago, I couldnt find anything in 5/8 npt close to what I was looking for. Gonna put it on in afew, when the sun comes up.

 

Any of you guys got pics of where you ground on the ribs? I sat it on there with no gaskets and no heater hose/pipe and it wont sit flat. Might try it with the old gaskets to see if it will.

 

IIRC The fitting I used was a 3/8 NPT with a 5/8" barb. Picked it up at the hardware store for a couple bucks.

 

Well I got the heater hose out of the way and as far as I can tell the intake cleared after I put the gaskets on. But.. my stock fuel rail hates me. its like 2 inches too narrow. I guess I'm gonna cut the factory hoses and get some more fuel injection hose but that can wait till morning..

 

I have 2 last I saw. I'll get one boxed up and sent to you today. Good excuse to get off my ****.

00Blackstanggt: you should come over and buy my 4.6 HPS intake from me for the incredible deal that only you'll get since you live in the same town as me. You got my digits... gimme a shout.

I pulled the trigger on my first brand new retail purchased nitrous kit. Bought one from dynotunenitrous (www.dynotunenitrous.com) that comes with no bottle or bracket since I already have those parts. Until I get the 2nd stage kit set up and the electrical worked out I'll run 100hp or so through it. 400rwhp and around 500rwtq should more than satisfy the need for speed for the time being.

 

well next week ftperformance will be starting on the long tubes if all goes well....


on a side note, as soon as hunters and my car are done i have a 03 and 93 gt that want me to put a 5.4 into as well ......

 

R3d, I don't mean any disrespect, but shouldn't your numbers be far better than that?
With your mod list couldn't a 4.6L almost hit those numbers?

 

turned out my heads were basically stock with new valves and not stage 2 fox lake as they were sold to me (got ripped off... 400 bucks, meh). so no... the numbers are right on where they should be. And no... a 4.6 makes nowhere near the average tq of my motor. A 4.6 with my heads/intake/cam/exhaust package would be putting down closer to 300rwhp/290rwtq.

It is under-delivering from what I was hoping but that's all in getting a new set of proper heads from TFS once they're shipping, have those ported to flow all they can and then shoot for 400rw.

 

Well I got the intake on after much bullshit, idles beautifully now. Gonna play with the tune some next week.

 

don't get me started. Most of the companies you mention had already agreed and then backed out of the deal. The rest told me in no uncertain terms to get fucked AFTER I offered them unlimited use of my car including the already custom made headers that are on it and I even specified that I'd take no compensation for my contribution as long as they'd make at least 20 sets for retail sale. Each would accept, then him and haww and then back out. If you get one to agree, then I'll still let them copy mine but they MUST make 20 pairs for retail sale and provide me with 1 set to use as I wish since they all told me to screw off the last time I tried to make them some cash.

 

going to be tearing down my 5.4 fairly quickly and i need some help on the internals. i am going to go with forged rods and pistons but need some help deciding whether i want h or i beams and which pistons. i would be highly appreciative for some help in deciding. im thinking that it will be getting some boost later down the road. if you need any more info let me know and thanks for the advice.