My LFest06 / Lightning Saga - - - - - Part 4 (the New Engine!)

[EZ SPEED]

Part 4

Okay, here is the scoop on the new engine.

I had planned on using a DSS stroker kit for my 351 block when the time came, so why not just use a longblock from them since I destroyed the entire engine and have nothing to build.

I called DSS racing and got a guy named Nick on the phone that was VERY helpful. We discussed my combination and I also let him know that I was in a slight bit of a rush due to wanting to drive this truck to Lightning Fest. Nick assured me that he would do everything within his power to get my engine to me as soon as possible.


The Good News: Well, he kept his word and the engine went out on time.
The Bad News: The shipping company almost completely screwed me. After a LOT of Drama I finally got the engine delivered But . . . if was 8pm this past Friday Night !!!!

I stayed up Friday night till 4am Saturday morning (I was up for 24 hours that day)and got it close to ready for install.
About 3pm Saturday afternoon I had it sitting in the engine compartment. I worked on it for 14 hours Saturday and stayed up again till 4 am and got it almost finished. And finally today (Sunday) at 3pm it fired up on the first try!
It was running REALLY ROUGH, but I played with the tune (SCT Pro Racer) and kept altering my MAF transfer function till it would idle on its on. It took me about 6-7 reburns on my chip till I got it running well enough to take if for a little drive about 6pm tonight. All total I spent 25 hours prepping and installing the new engine. I only had help for about 2 hours when my friend Brad helped me drop the motor into the engine bay, other than that I am proud to say that I busted my A$$ and got it done by myself!!

Okay Okay…..I know you want to know the specs on the motor.


I decided on a DSS Pro Bullet 410 cu in Longblock complete with AFR 205 heads, Level 10 CNC block, billet aluminum main support system, Pro windage tray, upgraded to the Pro-X forged pistons, 4340 H beam rods, AFM B41 cam, all ARP hardware, blah, blah blah . . . . .So this should be a BEAST !!

Oh, and the very FIRST thing I ordered the day after I blew the old engine was an “AEM Boost Controller” it has an Overboost alarm to help me not be a Dumbass anymore . . .LOL

There was no way I was going to use any of the old stuff with 211,000 miles on a new engine making the kind of power that its going to be capable of so……
Along with the new Longblock I will be installing:

New sensors, oil air, water
new waterpump
new timing cover
new TCI flexplate (SFI) and ARP bolts
new Summit Steel Balanacer (SFI) and ARP bolt
reman Distributor with steel gear (Ordered a MSD billet dist. But needed money and sent it back)
I Scored a Polished Lower GT40 intake off ebay (came off a 95 Lightning)
new motor mounts
ARP oil pump shaft and ARP oil pan bolts
New oil pan, oil pump pickup and Milodon oil pump
Powdercoated block to trans plate
Cleaned up and painted the turbo headers and downpipe
Ford Racing billet timing pointer


Here are some pics of the supporting equipment:

http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/93engine_186.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/93engine_175.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/93engine_176.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/93engine_184.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/93engine_185.jpg

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And finally pics of the 410 !!!

http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine003.jpg

http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine004.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine005.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine006.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine007.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine010.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine012.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine015.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine018.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine019.jpg

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http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine029.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine032.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine033.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine034.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine035.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine037.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine039.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine040.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine041.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine045.jpg

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http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine047.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine048.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine045.jpg
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/data/1887/medium/410engine049.jpg

[banditmwp]

looks good, Eric... I know you're glad to have it back running again. give me a shout if you need anything else :nice:

[EZ SPEED]

Heading to the Dyno in the morning, hopefully I have it running well enough to get there :banana:

[QWKSNKE]

Niiiiice!!!

Those are some large ports on the heads :eek:

[ncontt]

OMG, Very nice, :drool:

[slvrbullit]

Congrats man, glad you got everything in before the L'fest. Nick is a excellent guy to deal with. When I got screwed with my shipping they were quick to get me what was missing from my order.

[TheJeanyus]

Damn that is going to be a monster. :metal:

[ChipR4cam]

Wow dude. That is a completely different truck after all the clean up and that motor. You passed me when ya'll were going into Oxford. I want a ride after the tune.:yup:

I think I'm the only person in town that hasn't ridden in one of your trucks.:nono:

[Italian LX]

Looks awesome, Eric! :nice:

[fireguy50]

you're crazy!

[Wall96cobra]

Damn Eric that is badass!!! I never got to ride in it with the stock motor and turbo so you'll have to give me a ride in it now:jester:

[1sicklx]

Looks awesome! Where did you get that upper intake?

[EZ SPEED]

Thanks Everyone !!:chug:

The upper intake is a Jeg's Max Box sheetmetal intake, I have it sitting on a polished 95 Lightning GT40 lower. And I powdercoated the lid on the max box. I wished that I had time to polish the box itself, then it would look awesome.

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?lang=-1&catalogId=10002&storeId=10001&categoryId=65548

[1sicklx]

Looks great polished or not. :nice:

[natedawgg94]

man it's good to see things falling into place for ya eric :metal: :metal: and DAMN that motor looks:drool: :drool: :drool:

[EZ SPEED]

Thanks Nate !!!

[CrimsonRacing]

:devileek: DAMN Eric.............that motor looks excellent......

Fine Job........

and here I am just wishing I could get my front suspension done......








:metal:

[coupe]

:nice: The heads are my favorite part.

The B41 cam is my least favorite part. I'm sure it will make great power though.

[BUCK]

That my friend. Is a beautiful thing. :metal:

[natedawgg94]

:popcorn: all we need now is some numbers for this beast:metal:

[SvoBrown]

Woo! Thats a chuck of power going in that farm truck. Working like that on projects make everything better. No sleep and something to finish.
Love it!

[Italian LX]

:popcorn: all we need now is some numbers for this beast:metal:
All I will say is it's over 400. :D

[EZ SPEED]

:sleeping: I am tired, we spent almost 4 hours on the dyno yesterday. The tune was being a pain in the a$$

We mainly worked on driveability . . . not max power . . .so dont expect any earth shattering numbers just yet. The motor only had about 80 miles on it when we hit the dyno.
This fall I plan on going back and making the tune a little more aggressive when it has some break in miles.

But . . . I know you want some numbers.

---OLD 351 - - 419/529 @ 12.5 psi---

NEW

433 rwhp and 503 rwtq @ 5 psi

481 rwhp and 557 rwtq @ 8 psi

and one run I made Blake shut it down @ 3600 when I saw 14 psi
454 rwhp / 634 rwtq

[coupe]

:eek: Verrry niiice.

But you have way too much time and money sir. :D

[EZ SPEED]

:eek: Verrry niiice.

But you have way too much time and money sir. :D

Not anymore . . . 401k is non-existant now, oh well . . .Looks like I will be working till I am 70 yrs old anyway :shrug:

But thanks for the compliments :nice:

[coupe]

Yes indeed, it's a badass truck.
I don't see how you can top it, but I imagine the red one will be just plain sick. :drool:

[natedawgg94]

man the pics don't do the truck justice seen it this morning and man it's freaking awesome and sounds SSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOO SWEET nice little cam sound for a turbo truck :metal: :metal: you did one HELL of a job on the truck eric.....:worship: :worship:

[TruBlu01]

Excellent work Eric, that thing sounded awesome this mornin at work. Love it:metal:

[EZ SPEED]

man the pics don't do the truck justice seen it this morning and man it's freaking awesome and sounds SSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOO SWEET nice little cam sound for a turbo truck :metal: :metal: you did one HELL of a job on the truck eric.....:worship: :worship:


Excellent work Eric, that thing sounded awesome this mornin at work. Love it:metal:



Thanks Nate and Tobiasss :chug:
I think Mike liked it a little too much. . . he was humping the fender near the exhaust dump :hump:

[TheJeanyus]

481 rwhp @ 8 psi...sick! :metal:

[BUCK]

Thanks Nate and Tobiasss :chug:
I think Mike liked it a little too much. . . he was humping the fender near the exhaust dump :hump:



Hmm....lets analyze that statement...it appears there may be some animosity that eric has toward toby..for example he use a shortened nick name (tyipical of a friendly relationship) for his obvious friend natedawg. However in referenceing Toby he actually extended the name by added the phrase asss. This not only emplies that toby is a ass but the last s implies that of a large ass.






:popcorn:

:jester:

[TruBlu01]

:lol:

[hevymtl]

I need a ride too! Im having Lightning withdraws!!

[ChipR4cam]

I need a ride too! Im having Lightning withdraws!!

Speaking of which, who did you sell it to? A black lightning with a Sterling emblem came whining past me when I turned off of 78 onto county line road the other day.

[EZ SPEED]

I charged up the A/C system yesterday . . . its COLD !!!! :metal:

I now have a factory 1994 R134a system in a 1993 truck !!! :banana: :banana:

[hevymtl]

Speaking of which, who did you sell it to? A black lightning with a Sterling emblem came whining past me when I turned off of 78 onto county line road the other day.

A guy from Munford ,he works at the depot.

[rtusnake]

Damn 634tq on the 14 pull, thats insane. Can't wait to see the numbers the red truck puts out

[EZ SPEED]

Damn 634tq on the 14 pull, thats insane. Can't wait to see the numbers the red truck puts out

if it was a full pull it would have probably been something like 550/650 :banana:

[ChipR4cam]

A guy from Munford ,he works at the depot.

I guess that was probably him then.

[NightHawk756]

Congrats Eric! Good to see you made your deadline and your back on the road! :metal:

[RTGreen]

Sweet Eric, my brother is going to crap his pants when I show him this thread.

What a sick ride!:metal:

[EZ SPEED]

Congrats Eric! Good to see you made your deadline and your back on the road! :metal:

Thanks Brad !!!

Sweet Eric, my brother is going to crap his pants when I show him this thread.

What a sick ride!:metal:


Thanks Todd !!!!

[Italian LX]

But you have way too much time and money sir. :D
:eric:

[QWKSNKE]

:eric:

:lol:

Can't wait to get back to the Honeywell facility so I can drive/ride in it :D

[Italian LX]

:lol:
I thought you'd get a kick out of that. I added that smiley a little while ago and forgot to use it ever. I just happened to see it today and had to go ahead and bust it out.

:eric:

[QWKSNKE]

I thought you'd get a kick out of that. I added that smiley a little while ago and forgot to use it ever. I just happened to see it today and had to go ahead and bust it out.

:eric:

I have done a little of :eric: this week.

**Focus tires
**Cam,MAF, injectors, gaskets, and a power pipe for the cobra

[Italian LX]

I have done a little of :eric: this week.

**Focus tires
**Cam,MAF, injectors, gaskets, and a power pipe for the cobra
It must be something in the air... I've got quite a few things coming for the 418 motor. :eric:

[TheJeanyus]

I've got a belt tensioner, Billetflow idler pullies, and new belt going on this weekend. :eric:

[rtusnake]

I'm getting a tune tuesday:eric:

[EZ SPEED]

:eric:
All that is gone. . . and I have to buy $ 579 worth of tags today with $49 . . .gonna be interesting.

[hevymtl]

:eric:
All that is gone. . . and I have to buy $ 579 worth of tags today with $49 . . .gonna be interesting.

Quit getting all those damn personalized tags and they wont cost that much!:jester:

[EZ SPEED]

Quit getting all those damn personalized tags and they wont cost that much!:jester:

:brick:



:jester:

[93Cobra#2771]

Very VERY well done Eric. Congrats on the buildup and finished product!