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ford ranger modifications Q&A Review
Is the new Ford Ranger with the 2.3L turbo engine reliable?
Ford’s ecoboost engines are extremely reliable with the proper care and maintenance. Even with some modifications to upgrade their performance they are some of the best out there.
What simple mods would be beneficial for a 1998 4 cyl Ford Ranger?
There are modifications, then there are modifications that can improve something. The problem, is if you improve the ‘something’ what does it impact in the rest of the frame and the driveline. Considering is is a 4 cyl Ranger, that is a small utility truck, that for its size, is woefully small in comparison to the very popular F150. It is a utiltiy truck with a small engine , and a small weight class. But it is a ver y efficeint means to get some goods from A to B.
Can you put a 5.0 in a Ranger?
With some modification, yes. I have personally installed a 302 into a 1986 Ford Ranger. The front susension must be stiffened and the complete drive train must be used with a custom cut drive line and a custom radiator. If I remember correctly, I had to put the electric cooling fans on the forward side of the radiator because there was no clearance for the mechanical fan. The exhaust had to be custom built from the engine back as well. I also had to alter the steering shaft to make it fit. Everything was custom, from the motor mounts to the transmission mount and even the transmission crossmember.
Which would be better for offroad travel without any modifications; a 1992 Ford Ranger 4x4 (5-speed manual, 4.0L V6) or a 1998 Ranger (4-speed automatic, 2.5L straight-4)?
Automatics can be great off road. The natural thing for a Automatic to do when the wheels start spinning is to change up a gear. This gives you better traction. In Iceland or Desert countries it very common to see Automatic 4x4’s. They make sense off road.
Have you ever been in a situation where you thought you might die? What happened and what did you do? What did you learn as a result?
I got hit by a speeding freight train. More accurately, my truck got hit by a speeding freight train. I had a 1988 Ford Ranger Extended Cab pick-up truck and I had performed a number of ill advised-conceived modifications to the engine. One of these modifications, performed by an unqualified mechanic (me) ended up stalling the truck on a set of tracks on the near-east side of Indianapolis. August 14th, 1988 I had been out driving around that evening, recklessly as always and testing out the perceived performance gains (there were none) my installation should have provided. Sometime around 9 PM the truck began to develop a miss in the engine, and I decided to take one last loop around the neighborhood before going back home. The train warning lights came on a few seconds before I got to the track-road intersection and I turned right to beat the train. At this point it is fair to suggest the phrase "beat the train" is another one of those famous last words. The truck died, dead center of the tracks. I tried to start it and get off the tracks, but no go. I looked through the passenger side window and realized the train wasn't moving at the normal train speed through town, but was almost on top of me in the few short seconds I had been stalled. I jumped out of the truck and made it past the back bumper as the entire world exploded (without the dramatic Hollywood flames, etc.) around me. One step slower, and I would have been part of the debris field. The truck was lifted high into the air and I watched it over my shoulder as it did several somersaults before landing in a heap next to the tracks about 200 feet down. Amazingly there was no fire, even though the smell of gas, and anti-freeze was thick in the air. I knew in my heart that the whole thing was my fault. I wasn't qualified to modify the fuel system in anyway, and later on discovered that I had probably installed the fuel line clips in the wrong orientation which caused them to pop off, losing pressure to the fuel system, causing the fuel pump to shut off etc. The thing is though, the train conductor was issued a citation by CSX Police for violating the speed limit through town on those tracks. He was certainly not doing the mandated 30 MPH. According to the accident investigator, he may have been in excess of 55 MPH heading into downtown. Which is ridiculously fast due to the numerous curves on those tracks. I have become a fairly decent mechanic since those days, but, I have learned not to mess with things I haven't been qualified to work on,. Working on fuel systems still give me the willies. Brakes too, but that is another story. I did get a brand new truck, which I left stock.
Is 1000 horsepower too much for a street car?
Is 1000 horsepower too much for a street car? Being blunt, half that much isn’t as much fun on the street as you might expect if the vehicle’s not built to be street-driven routinely. It can definitely be done, but it’s; Not a good idea if you have limited experience, Problematic in practice. For a start, that kind of power is problematic because you’ll always find yourself fighting the car to some degree. If it’s a legit 1000hp to the tires machine, it’s a lot like riding a horse that’s very fast in track racing, but doing so on a trailride; you end up spending a lot of time trying ,not ,to let it do what it was built to do. It’s likely not designed and built to putter around at 30MPH; this machine isn’t breathing well until it’s up in the powerband, and unfortunately “up in the powerband” is probably way over the speed limit. So, you’ll need to keep your head on a permanent swivel for cops, pedestrians, grannies driving like grannies, and morons. You’ll fight to take off without stalling because it’s not meant to leave the line soft and gently; it’s probably going to want to go like hell and that’s not acceptable 10 feet off the rear bumper of a hot mom in a minivan. Then we come to the secondary problem…it’s hard to hide that much power and as such, you’re going to get lots of unwanted attention. Some from the twerp in his rusted out Fox-Body Mustang who thinks it’s a road monster ’cause it’s got Flowmasters, and some from the guy who drives the car with the party lights on top. Mr. Mustang is relatively easy to cope with; “Take your mom’s car back to her before she realizes you’ve borrowed it without her permission.”…Mr. Officer Policeman, Sir, he’s not so easy to deal with. You’ll have him stalking you, waiting for you to do something stupid. Or, waiting for the car to do something stupid before you can prevent it from doing it. You bark ’em leaving a red light because it doesn’t like to “ease” off the line, and he’s going to pounce. You rev the engine a bit and gain 14MPH when you only meant to gain 2MPH and he’s going to pounce. Driving that much power around is advertising that you’re a great candidate to make a financial contribution to the local legal system if you give them reason, and with that much power under loose control, they’ll find a reason soon enough. Plus there are officers who, when they find reason to pull you over, they will pick you apart piece by piece to write a bigger ticket. I know of a young man who got an amazingly detailed ticket ranging from “illegal exhaust modifications” through “Illegal seatbelt modifications” and “illegal tires”. Little of it held up in court, but it was still a hassle he had to deal with. (The 5pt harness was deemed legal by the judge, but only because the judge wasn’t a police officer who wanted to show the little rich kid who wielded authority. Cop retired soon after, for which we are all grateful.) A friend of mine and I put together a Chevy Nova 1/8th mile drag car. 406 SBC, all the trimmings. Big slicks, built to go fast in a straight line. Clear the 1/8th in 5 seconds flat at 130. Fun. It was fun to drive, but it wasn’t fun to drive a lot off the strip. The front suspension was designed more for the track than the street, so to maneuver on a parking lot would wear you out; you’re making 8 rounds on the steering wheel to go from lock-to-lock. It naturally tended to ride like it had no suspension at all because most drag strips don’t have train tracks, speed bumps, manhole covers, and chugholes. Yes, when you got that pig out on the open highway out of town away from everything, and you let it roll…it was a blast. It was genuinely fun. Everything else sucked. It guzzled gas like a fat boy guzzles beer, had the ride quality of an Amish buckboard, pain in the ass to park, got way too much attention from the local police, overheated half the time, couldn’t be safely manhandled if the road was the least bit wet, and was a handful anywhere but the open highway. Additionally, for every hour you drove it, your ears rang for one day. So, if you drove it four hours today, your ears would ring for four days. Could it be done? Absolutely. It’s not for a beginner, nor is it good for someone with no ability to control their urges. It’s, in that respect, a lot like a firearm; in the hands of many, I wouldn’t have the least bit of concern about it because it is 100% safe in their hands…but I know a lot of people who really don’t need access to it because if they don’t kill somebody else with it, they’ll just kill their own goofy ass with it through stupidity. You can wind up a little Toyota Corolla and dump the clutch and it’s really funny. You wind up that Nova and dump the clutch, if the tires bite, you’re going for a helluva ride. If the tires don’t bite, you’re going for a helluva ride, only it’ll be more in a different direction than straight. In many ways, it’s less about the numbers and more about; What the vehicle is built for. If it’s to be a streetable car that’s manageable with lots of power, it’s a totally different beast than a drag car somebody made out of a Ford Ranger with a built 429 crammed/shoehorned into it. You can build a car around the power it has and make it much more street-friendly, but if that’s not how it was built, it’s going to suck as a street car because you’re not driving it, you’re ,fighting ,it. A 1000HP 4x4 is a totally different animal than a zoomy sports car, and it’ll behave differently. Driver maturity. I know a gentleman who, despite being 69 years old, has the driver maturity of a 13-year-old. If he’s sitting at one red light and you can see that the next light 150 feet away is red, when this light turns green he’s still going to jackrabbit like he’s at zMax Dragway and then he’ll slam on the brakes to hopefully stop before he either runs the next red light, or invests deeply in the car ahead of his. I’m intensely glad his little econoshitbox makes the same amount of power that the wiper motor on a Dodge Coronet makes, because if he had 300, 400, 750 horsepower…he’d either kill himself or someone else within a few days. Driver intelligence, maturity, and skill awareness is crucial if you’re operating a roller skate with a rocket duct taped to it. He doesn’t have enough sense for me to think he’d live long with more power waiting to be given orders by his right foot. Budget. Power, in whatever form, is expensive. A small-block-Chevy with all the goodies and dual-quads up top, she’s a fun girl to dance with, but she’s no cheap date; you’ll spend a LOT of money on fuel and if you stack bearings or drop a valve…you know it’s not a good thing when the parts store guy hears what happened and smiles. Likewise, a smaller powerplant with turbochargers, it may use less fuel, but when it breaks it won’t break cheap. Plus, when you think nobody’s watching and you goose it a little bit, and turns out somebody ,was, watching and that somebody happened to have a ticket book and the authority to use it…yeah, that’s not cheap either. Just because you think you should be praised for not letting that tail-happy (redacted) get away from you, that doesn’t mean the officer will agree. In the end, it’s totally workable, it can be done, and it is done frequently. Is it right for everyone, with any vehicle that’s got 1000HP? No. Is it going to be fun to try to transition a race car to a street car without tuning it down? Probably not. For me, cars are a lot like woodworking tools. A slow car is like a hand plane; it’ll do a great job and it’ll work great, but it’s not going to do the job fast. A powered hand planer, it’ll do a great job and it’ll work great, but it’ll also let you screw up a LOT of stuff a LOT faster. Powerful tools just let you make stupid mistakes faster and with less difficulty. Cars are the same. If you’re bright enough to understand this and can stay ahead of this to prevent it from screwing up a lot of stuff a lot faster, you’ll do fine. When in doubt, just remember that every car that has a gas pedal probably has a brake pedal, and just because ,you can, push either one of them all the way to the floor, that doesn’t mean ,you, ,have to, always push either one of them all the way to the floor. A good rule of thumb I’ve always found to work great for me? At no time should you allow the vehicle you’re in to go faster than you’d like to hit anything the vehicle is near. It’s very basic, but it’s always worked for me.
Can I use a 2.8 liter Ford Ranger trans in my 2.9 liter Ford Ranger?
Yeah, probably. But in your case engine size shouldn't matter. As long as both transmittions are the same type and series the new one should bolt right up to the motor. Your issue would be will it bolt up to the truck, the model years might not be compatable. It could require transmittion mount modifications. Or it might not go in at all. Before getting started you should make a determination. Just because they're the same truck doesn't mean both are laid out the same.
Are there modifications to increase the safety of my 2003 Ford Ranger in the case of a collision?
5 point safety harness, disable your air bags, removable steering wheel, fire suppression system, and a full cage. Replace your windows with nets. Add in a driving suit, fire proof with a gold helmet and you'll be real safe! Install skid guards, lift kit, bumpers and a V8, you'll have a tiny raptor.
What is normal in your country but weird in the rest of the world?
I live in South Africa. The armed robbery capital of the world. The rape capital of the world. The hijacking capital of the world. One of the countries with the highest amount of murders in the world. And home of the Springboks and Proteas. In South Africa we lock our doors. And our security gates. We don’t drive around with our car doors unlocked - for obvious reasons. That does not mean, however that we are safe - we have a problem called smash-and-grabbing, in which car windows get smashed and valuables stolen whilst waiting at a traffic light. Traffic lights are referred to here as “robots” - based on the Afrikaans term for it. Many foreigners asking for directions often get confused when being directed to “turn right at the second robot”. Police officers are very corrupt and easy to bribe. We have a term called “,cooldrink money,” - usually R100 (roughly US$10) kept aside for any difficult police officers looking for a bribe. Failure to produce a bribe has almost cost friends of ours to have their license card cut up for no reason. We rely on security companies to keep us safe. Most people have armed response companies on standby. Police officers who respond to robberies in progress often call security companies to assist as the police force is too scared to enter the premises with the criminals inside (true story). Security is clearly a big issue here. All houses have extensive modifications done to intensify security. Houses come equipped with high garden walls fitted with electric fences and palisades. Many houses have trip-sensors and laser beams that detect movement, as well as infrared security cameras. Most houses have motorised electric gates and guard dogs. Burglar bars and security gates are standard. Many houses even have bolt-lock security gates indoors in hallways that lead to bedrooms. South Africans are mad about sports. Rugby is a big thing here and you will struggle to find someone who doesn’t support the ,Bokke, - the Afrikaans nickname for the Springboks. Cricket is also a big deal here and we only support the Proteas. On nearly all levels of sports (except football) our main competitors are New Zealand, England and Australia. Biltong, braai and beer. These are the three things that every South African household should have. If you live in a South African city, you either drive a German car, a hatchback or a heavily modified pickup truck (usually a Toyota Hilux or a Ford Ranger). We refer to pickups as ‘,bakkies,’. Everyone carries some sort of weapon in their car. Some people carry mace (pepper spray) while others carry a tazer. If your window doesn’t get smashed by a smash-and-grabber or by a hijacker, you may just have someone pulling your door open at a traffic light because you accidentally cut them off 2 kilometers back. Welcome to the city - happened to me a few weeks ago. I now carry a wrench under my seat and a ,sjambok ,(heavy leather whip) on the driver’s side of my car. Most young South Africans aspire to leave the country once they are done studying. My entire friends group plan on leaving the country within the next few years. Some have already left. We don’t see any hope for the country with the way things have been going here for the last decade. In South Africa, everyone loves the ,platteland, - the local name for the countryside. Even those who have never been there aspire to one day retire in the ,platteland, on a small farm, sipping a beer over a braai and some biltong. Let’s hope this country can reach some peace agreement so we can all experience that dream one day.
What hack or modification increased the enjoyment of driving your car, truck, or SUV the most?
Honestly the first thing I put in any vehicle I purchase, whether new or used is floor mats, seat covers and a steering wheel cover. The second modification is a bare minimum LED headlights and typically the whole vehicle is converted to LED. Between driving a lot, day and night and years as a mechanic those are my must haves. I did this for my brand new motorcycle (not the floor mats of course), my brand new Subaru Crosstrek and my 30+ year old Ford Ranger. After my “basics" are done what comes next depends on the vehicle. The Crosstrek got a lift, custom rims and off road tires along with full belly armor and I've ordered new front and rear bumpers. The motorcycle got a heated seat and grips, LED light bar and engine crash bars. The old Ford Ranger… well its had a lot done to make me happy. I bought it as an automatic transmission and converted it to a 5 speed, tinted the windows and am in the process of installing a sunroof and building a twin turbo system for it. It's not much to look at but will end up being my daughter's truck in a couple of years and I want her to have the fastest (and ugliest) little 4x4 in high school.
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What is the Daytime Running Lights of Ford Ranger?
Here are the Daytime Running Lights and variants of Ford Ranger:
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Here are the Road Tax and variants of Ford Ranger:
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Here are the Speakers and variants of Ford Ranger:
Variants 2020 Ford Ranger Raptor 2.0 Bi-Turbo 2019 Ford Ranger 2.0L XLT Limited Edition 2020 Ford Ranger 2.0 Bi-Turbo WildTrak 4x4 (A) Speakers 6 Speakers 6 Speakers 6
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