The older 5.0's only had up to a 65mm TB and you had to mill the EGR plate to
fit. That's the era when I was working on them (for a profession...not for
fun). I'm sure things have changed immensly since then. ;)
We did work closely with J.R. (Granatelli) back then to have custom EGR plates
built as well as modified MASS Air Sensors. I also believe that his son is now
running the "business" and he's "retired".
This was in the days where you had to to custom fab a lot of your own
parts...before Ford had all those cool "goodies" for them.
- Bernd
> They are using from a 70MM, 77MM, and a 80MM size, depending on HP. Ford
> Racing sales twin TB setup for the Buttstang now. They run in the 58MM size
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bernd@texas.net [mailto:bernd@texas.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 2:26 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: 4.7L Throttle Body-Re: Steven Ekstrand
>
>
> I agree with ya on the TB size...look at the older 5.0L Butt-stangs (for
> example), you can have up to an 88mm TB on there...and it doesn't look much
> different than a 60mm.
>
> - Bernd
>
> > Matt-
> >
> > I like your schedule better than mine. I have a "tow" truck not a racer!
> > Still mine seems to find its way into some interesting "situations".
> > Buttonwillow at the end of the month and back to the Drag Strip in early
> > November.
> >
> > The only reason I consider putting the PCM off is because of the choice
> > between the Mopar PCM (assuming it EVER gets released for our trucks) and
> a
> > custom job. It you're only going to do the basic mods the Mopar unit is
> > fine. If you're going deeper, then a custom flash is probably the ticket.
> >
> > I think people do misjudge the 4.7L TB's because of the single bore. It's
> > probably too much to ask for people to remember that pesky area of a
> circle
> > formula. :-) The 4.7L unit is fairly good sized.
> >
> > -STE
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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