lessons learned so you don't have to- 7.3L godzilla

[cscotted]

awesome stuff there. Those angled boots look perfect. I did not run across those when initially looking. I will keep that saved for later. You have me rethinking things now…

I think at this point i am going to wait on my adapter from godzilla garage. Made by another company btw ( both out of canada) fire it up… clean some things here and there and see what i want to improve or redesign.. i need some positive reinforcement right now and firing it off will do that.

This is excellent info that you shared and will help others and myself in the future. I have two more godzillas on crates waiting for my brothers bronco and one for my next project.. TBD-

 

[cscotted]

Ba123- what did you do for pcv? I vented one to atmosphere with a uni filter and plan to weld a bung into my aluminum CAC tube joined to the other valve cover..

 

[ba123]

Atmosphere isn’t ideal.

I have a pcv valve from the lower intake to the upper in back and then I made a combo oil cap and air inlet on the valve cover going to the throttle body, I think that was in a different thread. Lemme find it.

 

[ba123]

Here:
https://classicbroncos.com/forums/threads/5-0-efi-pcv-system-solution.318877/

 

[ba123]

Here’s the finished pic with the hose:

 

[duffymahoney]

Electric fan?

 

[ba123]

Electric fan?

Me? Yes, Delta PAG brushless. Not sure there is anything else that would fit so glad I decided on that. The Monster Fan from Vintage Air might work as well, but I liked this one.

That vintage air one probably would’ve been easier too, but I like that this one is a brushless fully variable pwm fan and it’s quiet. I control it with my Megasquirt to turn on however and wiener I want it to set to x voltage for y% at z temp, full at whatever degree, off at whatever…

 

[rguest3]

awesome stuff there. Those angled boots look perfect. I did not run across those when initially looking. I will keep that saved for later. You have me rethinking things now…

I think at this point i am going to wait on my adapter from godzilla garage. Made by another company btw ( both out of canada) fire it up… clean some things here and there and see what i want to improve or redesign.. i need some positive reinforcement right now and firing it off will do that.

This is excellent info that you shared and will help others and myself in the future. I have two more godzillas on crates waiting for my brothers bronco and one for my next project.. TBD-

Which Adaptor did you find?

 

[cscotted]

Snow performance makes one. There are others out there also

 

[rguest3]

Snow performance makes one. There are others out there also

Is the Adaptor for which TB and Intake?

 

[cscotted]

Is the Adaptor for which TB and Intake?

Its a curved adapter. For stock or gt500

 

[duffymahoney]

Why not a mechanical fan?

Why did the column shifter not work? Exhaust?

 

[cscotted]

Why not a mechanical fan?

Why did the column shifter not work? Exhaust?

The column shifter bracket was going to interfere with the driver valve cover- I still might make my own bracket so I can run a cable shift off the stock linkage and retain the column handle- but this will be later on- it will require that I trim the OEM linkage bracket at the end of the column and make a piece to work-

mechanical fan- well my take out didn't have one for starters, and when I first started I knew electric would be easier so I went with that. Plus a properly setup electric fan will work just fine in my experience especially in traffic, once going down the road its airflow anyway-

knowing what I know now- I could have fit a mechanical fan in there, but it would take a lot of searching to find a water pump to accept a fan and to find an actual fan... I don't have a OEM 7.3 water pump anymore ( Holley front dress) the aftermarket is starting to make parts.. more so now than when I started, so I imagine ( hope) in the future these problems will be addressed or supported by new parts..

mechanical fans have been done with ford FEAD in full-size trucks - the smaller EB would be a challenge since the FEAD was swapped over to Holley-

 

[duffymahoney]

The column shifter bracket was going to interfere with the driver valve cover- I still might make my own bracket so I can run a cable shift off the stock linkage and retain the column handle- but this will be later on- it will require that I trim the OEM linkage bracket at the end of the column and make a piece to work-

mechanical fan- well my take out didn't have one for starters, and when I first started I knew electric would be easier so I went with that. Plus a properly setup electric fan will work just fine in my experience especially in traffic, once going down the road its airflow anyway-

knowing what I know now- I could have fit a mechanical fan in there, but it would take a lot of searching to find a water pump to accept a fan and to find an actual fan... I don't have a OEM 7.3 water pump anymore ( Holley front dress) the aftermarket is starting to make parts.. more so now than when I started, so I imagine ( hope) in the future these problems will be addressed or supported by new parts..

mechanical fans have been done with ford FEAD in full-size trucks - the smaller EB would be a challenge since the FEAD was swapped over to Holley-

Thanks for the info, loving the build!

 

[cscotted]

ok....it runs...fired right up...sounds amazing with 3" exhaust - still doing final checks and monitoring stuff -

I do want to point out for others that if you run a Dakota digital RTX- even with a CAN BUS BIM module it will not read oil pressure.... I called Dakota about it and no luck there, called ford motorsports and had to email the engineer so we will see what he says- even with a hand held scanner watching live data there is no PID for oil pressure with my PCM ( ford)

I found where other godzilla guys had this problem with Dakota and the solution was to run an adapter under the intake - leave the stock oem sending unit plugged into the engine harness and oil feed and T off with a new port and run the Dakota pressure sending unit ssupplied with the gauge ( glad I kept that thing)

power by the hour sells adapters as well as fat fender garage...

 

[ba123]

On the very few things that would not communicate for me between Megasquirt and Dakota, I simply took the signal wire from Dakota and ran it to my ecu input.

For the oil pressure, it would be that wire that says “sig” on the pressure line.

Might work for you.

 

[WPS 73 Bronco]

Congrats

 

[gnpenning]

Last night I saw a video that planned on using a 6.9/7.3 fan. They modified a adapter that changes the 40mm pump to 30mm. If I heard them right.

 

[cscotted]

Last night I saw a video that planned on using a 6.9/7.3 fan. They modified a adapter that changes the 40mm pump to 30mm. If I heard them right.

Do you happen to have a link or key words for that video? Who posted it? Channel?

 

[gnpenning]

Chad's Fab.

I look in a bit for the link. I think it was around the 14 minute mark before anything was said about the fan.