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Old 07-26-2010, 06:40 PM
bobbymac bobbymac is offline
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Whats up guys and gal's ... my name is bobby and i am new to the forum... so lets play nice... i have a 1998 ford ranger, i am currently in the process of installing a 4.6 dohc into the ranger and have decided to use this site as my personal blog to show that the swap can be done... another thing everyone needs to know is that i have never worked on a ford engine... EVER... fucking a this is tough but i'm almost done... will get pics up asap...
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Old 07-26-2010, 06:55 PM
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Awesome welcome to FRF is this an NA 4.6?
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Old 07-26-2010, 07:27 PM
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Welcome! Post pics of your progress!
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Old 07-26-2010, 07:28 PM
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Welcome!
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Old 07-26-2010, 07:32 PM
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thanks for the warm welcome guys... and yea its na... i plan to do an 03-04 cobra head swap in a year or two... i wanna get this thing running first... i usedto drive the lincoln mark 8 the engine came out of and it ran like a top... the car got parked at eighty thousand miles and it was gonna get sold so i decided to gut it for what could be used in ma ranger...
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Old 07-26-2010, 07:55 PM
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4.6 nice, what u going to do for traction ,i have a friend with a 5.0 and he cant hook up i had 4.0 supercharged and had a prob , i was told to put in 4 link susp
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Old 07-26-2010, 07:56 PM
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Welcome - look forward to seeing / hearing more about your project!
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Old 07-26-2010, 11:35 PM
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Welcome to FRF.
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Old 07-27-2010, 01:44 AM
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Old 07-27-2010, 08:39 AM
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Welcome to FRF!

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Old 07-27-2010, 08:49 AM
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welcome to FRF, Robert!
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Old 07-27-2010, 05:18 PM
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rear end traction will be taken care of via a four parellel four link and a panhard bar...
and airbags
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Old 07-31-2010, 05:18 AM
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Old 07-31-2010, 05:33 AM
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Old 08-02-2010, 05:07 PM
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you know what i hate most... fuck this guy wont stop trying to talk to me....
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