4.6 Ford engine swap

[71 CA Bronco]

Had to open it up a bit. And your right about the brake booster. Three inch body lift and had to make an offset bracket. Runs great and lots of power.

Nice work. Very clean.

 

[StnePny]

20 years ago.......

people started doing 4.6 v-8 and 5.4 V-8.........Very Wide Motor..........just like the 5.0 Coyote.....

 

[Broncobowsher]

20 years ago.......

people started doing 4.6 v-8 and 5.4 V-8.........Very Wide Motor..........just like the 5.0 Coyote.....

The SOHC was bigger. DOHC more rare.
The 5.0 completely spanks what the 4.6/5.4 could do (with few rare and expensive exceptions). And the 5.0 can be build beyond what could ever be conceived of the 4.6/5.4 options.
As soon as the 5.0 came out the 4.6/5.4 were history only to live on in the Econoline. And that was only because nobody cared and Ford knew it would soon be dead with the Transit coming soon.

 

[bmc69]

It was around '98 or '99 that I picked up a complete "first year" 4.6 to put in an EB. Paid a pretty penny for it too. Before I actually got around to building the truck, a couple other folks beat me to it..had 4.6 swaps running. So I decided to build a 400-powered EB instead. And I did...it was a great rig.

I ended up using some of the EFI stuff off the 4.6 for my flathead V-8 EB build and the rest went to the scrapper eventually. *sigh*

 

[bmc69]

The SOHC was bigger. DOHC more rare.
The 5.0 completely spanks what the 4.6/5.4 could do (with few rare and expensive exceptions).

Around the year 2000 I helped a local fella build a 4.6 that eventually achieved over 600HP...at the rear wheels! He spent an astonishing amount of money on it...yet raced the Mustang only twice before he came to his senses and parted the car out to recover what he could. SHM (Sean Hyland Motorsports) had a lot to do with that build...custom heads and cams....absolutely huge Paxton supercharger and on and on.

The supercharger currently on my flathead V8 EB came from that Mustang project...after it was determined to be too small for the HP goals the guy had,

 

[Broncobowsher]

Around the year 2000 I helped a local fella build a 4.6 that eventually achieved over 600HP...at the rear wheels! ...

My neighbors new 5.0 is a stock long block with a supercharger and E85 conversion. This daily driver makes right at 1,000 HP at the rear wheels.
That's how different the 5.0 is from the old 4.6/5.4s.

 

[chrlsful]

Mc/bowzer - you’re mentioning the newer, the modular motors (MM) I believe. W/each new iteration, corporate merica makes money savings for themselves, not just at ford. Used to be the gob’ment could get them to do things for buyer protection (pollution, safety, MPGs) but seems much less now. For me MM = mightily missed As there wuz plenty more innovation to B had there~
(& I miss ‘em).

I think the 2nd gen explorer is the way ta go. I will if I ever re-powering the bronk. Some machinin & speedy bits in a 5 oh seems good 4 me...