Tell that to the guys that are running 450 hp ..
Who’s running 450hp in a Ranger and on the stock fuel system? And with what fuel? I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Am I not making enough power for you? Unfortunately I can’t just pull injectors out of my ass yet since they’re still being made. I’ll have a Ranger specific set soon since Mustang ones don’t work.
Rangers have more compression. We have a different head and electronics. The Mustang turbos don’t just fit and it seems that their fuel injectors don’t work either (the plug is different and they don’t run right when tuned) also the HPFP is different. I’m sure I can get way more power out of the combination but I don’t want to push it too far, this is a daily driver. I’ll be happy with a long, flatter torque curve and have horsepower that lasts out a little past 6k rather than the huge torque peak with nothing to sustain the power like the other graphs I’ve seen. Big torque especially at lower rpm is hard on the engine and doesn’t do much for its actual overall performance. I’m looking for a little over 400/400 or right around it. Maybe 420tq but not sure yet, it depends on how it works out once I get some fuel flow to play with.
You may have noticed that it’s a Colorado area truck…and the pulls were done in JANUARY! I’m sure incredibly cold air didn’t make any difference at all ? the amount of correction they are using (or gear they are using for the dyno pulls) is way off. In most any circumstance a stock Ranger will baseline around 255hp and 285tq yet this truck here baselined with 265hp and 332tq! This is not a normal number to compare with other Rangers and it shows that something is skewed. They are using a Mustang dyno which is known for having odd numbers and is sometimes overcompensated to be comparable with Dynojet, add some elevation and those numbers get worse. That is fine for what they were doing, because much like me they were measuring gains based on their baseline all on the same dyno, but they don’t compare to my dyno baseline and therefore their final numbers won’t compare with my final numbers because they had very different conditions throughout their test compared to my own. The problem is when they were all finished with it, that power number isn’t consistent with any other Rangers on different dynos and elevation and gear. because of the correction made to the graph or gear the pulls were made in. It’s very impressive as a number but generally elevation and the correction factors to compensate tend to inflate the numbers. Doing pulls in different gears (most people use 5th) will spread the hp/to ratio away from each other and usually results in a dyno graph that’s unusually high in either torque or horsepower just like his stock baseline of 332tq. They never actually showed what gear they were using or anything else to help with understanding their numbers. Linking incompatible Mustang parts and dyno videos of trucks at weird elevation making great numbers is very helpful though, it really made me more happy with the performance and numbers I’m getting over here at sea level with Ranger parts made for Rangers that fit Rangers. In the end I’m super happy with my results so far and have been quite scientific about testing the limits of the parts on my shops dyno to maintain consistent results. Can’t wait to get injectors and keep going! I definitely don’t need to be the “highest hp ecoboost Ranger” though
Thanks! We have been working through some tuning quirks with the new injectors and have an upgraded high pressure pump to install next. We’re scheduled for dyno time this week if everything goes smoothly with the other shop work.
Exactly, it’s not a big turbo, just a cheater wheel in a machined stock housing. It’s definitely a nice setup though, it drives great and doesn’t have enough lag to be a pain to drive at all. It made 392 in bad air on the dyno a few weeks ago. My in tank pump is out of flow at that power level.
