ford 4.6l sohc needs boost
 

im looking in to buying a t-bird as a comfortable cruiser
it's got a 4.6l sohc engine but only makes like 225hp 270ft-lbs
well i would like to get 300whp out of it just to cruise with
so i want boost
but don't know if i should go with twin t25's or somthing like a single holset or somthing?

anyone have experence turboing a tbird?

this is the same engine in the crown vics / mustangs etc, You do not need to turbo it to get to those levels. Theres a forum I don't recall the name if i find it ill post it up probably like crownvics.net or something.

You can easily get those numbers by doing a combo of things. ECU Tune, Head porting helps about 40hp on those cars surprisingly. All of this can be had for cheaper than a turbo

You could also go all out and maybe Supercharge it with some fab from a mustang SC or drop the 5.* Expedition Triton Engine in like someone did :)

what the ---- is your problem
you newbie ass wannabe hmt'er

you fail for 3 reasons
1-you said not to turbo it
2-you said to supercharge it
3-you don't know enough to offer up advice to anyone!
diaf!

ughhhh ignorant ---- take your POS American Car attitude elswhere you ------- meathead

dude learn your role
all these ------- hmt wanna be newbies are really ------- pissing me off!

hey nexus1155, learn what the ---- before you say some ----
i have been on this site 3 years
you have been on here a max of 4 days

yeah dude 4 days im sure, ive been on this site probably as long as you have but i never posted because i never had the need to.

How long you've been here doesn't mean how smart you are you're obviosuly a ------- moron, and everyone can see it thats why they're not replying.

Good luck trying to turbo that 3800 lb car maybe 4100 with your fatass sitting in there

Go over to Honda-Tech where your 50$ paint job ass belongs and talk to them about your manifolds made from PVC pipe

im sorry but this post also fails on a few levels as well,
first off your username says you joined march of 2008 which means you havnt been on here for 4 years, and second of all ht is the comple opposite of 50$ paint jobs and pvc manifolds thats pretty much as hmt as it is.

Cornfused i dont no much about fords but i think a single holset would be pretty sick on tbird and im sure its been done befor so just do some research mang

Do not do twin T25's please :)

Anything else would be cooler than T25's.

cornfused is an idiot dont even bother trying to help him. the only reason reasn why he started to post again is because almost all of the popel that used to bash on him and point out how much of an idiot he is got banned. if you dont belive me read the first post in this thread. t25s on a 4.6l:p:p

+1 cornfused has no business boosting anything

ECU tune won't do anything, and 40hp is about 85whp short of his goal. So what now? Maybe a CAI?

If he's going to do an engine swap, for ----'s sake why would he use a 5.4 SOHC? That's not much better than the pig he's got.

I'm siding with the others here. I'm surprised you can read, considering the stupid ---- you reply with.

ughhh more meatheadedness from the american crowd, go figure... i didn't say chp or bhp or whp i just said hp.

he said 225... 225+40 = 265 which is about 35 short of his hp goal if you can do math? probably not and his torque should be spot on with it.

These engines are seriously shitted with the intake from the factory, i've seen the design and gutted it, but an intake barely adds any hp in most cases.

and an ECU tune won't help, are you out of your ------- tree, i don't do this ---- for a business for nothing. You can smell the car burning fuel like a bastard at WOT, ignition is probably severely underpowered if its in a car like that, and if it has a TCU, it probably has torque management enabled which disabled severely improves driveability...

They are 225 stock, and put down 180whp, a 20% loss, which is a very widely accepted number for a RWD slushbox. Add 40, we've got 265, roughly 210whp. His goal is 300whp, he said that himself. Now, ------- rocket scientist, what is 300-210? I was under the impression it was 90.

These engines are seriously shitted, throughout, from the oil pan to the throttle body.

ECU tune, I'll bite. They run a flat line at 12:1 from idle to redline, I've dynoed more than a few. You won't find an OBD2 car that you can gain power on, and keep stock drivability, with an ECU tune. Today's EFI systems are damn near perfect. The ignitions are not underpowered, you won't find a car nowadays with an under-powered ignition, there's a reason for it. GM spends millions of dollars to get the best damn ignition systems out there, because they improve power, MPG, and decrease emissions. It's a HUGE selling factor. Don't you think it'd be for Ford too? Or do you think they'd rather sell a 10mpg truck than a 12mpg truck?

Torque management saves transmissions, I'll keep it. The 20hp it takes away, it takes away for milli-seconds. You will not see a noticeable difference in track times. And it's definitely something you want if you're adding more power.

Oh, and American crowd? Because I bought a Pontiac? What would you say if my other car is German? Which am I, if I have one of each? Take your ignorant assumptions elseware.