Thanks man! Just got the new intake manifold on there and loaded up my tune. I have the megasquirt controlling the valve so there will be some fine tuning with that but for first impressions I think that it worked really good.
Got it on the lift right now. Going to go through the whole turbo kit and change some gaskets and put in a couple of v bands because the gaskets that go to the heads and the headers keep blowing out. I’m going to switch to oem gaskets for the header and see how long they last.
It is not a VVti engine. I plan to build a VVti engine with cams and the works in the future but for now it’s just a stock 2003 4.7.
Yeah everything should port right over. Most of it was custom anyway
I haven’t changed anything. Have not opened the block yet. Everything internal is stock. It’s all about torque management keeping it under 400 wheel torque is key.
No but you’ll get more power out of the vvti because they made more power na.
I never got to 400hp because the trans just can’t take the torque. So when I was racing the other day at my local track I noticed 2nd gear acting a little strange. I was in a bracket so I was going for broke. When it was all said and done 2nd gear was no longer. Burnt the clutch packs out. Instead of getting me down I’m going to turn this into an opportunity. I’m going to go to my local dyno guy, strap her up, and turn it up until either the trans breaks, the motor blows or I get 500wheel from it. I’m going to film the whole thing and put it on YouTube. ITS GOING TO BE AWESOME. Then when it’s done I’m going to put a built transmission in and build a vvti motor so it can take basically anything I throw at it. Definitely going big aftermarket cams. Probably will max out the turbo first and see how I like it. If you don’t push it back to back and get the trans hot it will last you but don’t expect too much from the stock trans. It barely likes to be behind a v8 lol.
