Ford 300 Gets A Turbo! Turboing a 1988 Ford F-150 4.9L (HX35)
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Watch as we cobble together a turbo system for a Ford 300 straight six using junkyard parts booger welded together!
The turbo is an HX35 from a Cummins diesel, running 5-6psi with a mildly ported head, stock valves, cam, and bottom end, Megasquirt, and 42lb injectors.
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I have a 1989 f150 with a 4.9 and a turbo and have been trying to figure all this out where did you get the mega squirter and how did you install it
How's the gas mileage?
Hello what’s the link for the exhaust manifold?
@@j.cflooringinstallation2855 Search eBay for "Ford 300 Heavy Duty Exhaust Manifold" it should come up. It's for F600 and F700 trucks.
Ran a compression tester on my truck randomly and it was running fine then I ran the tester and it was at 80 psi couldn't believe it was running
That goes to show how strong these engines truly are. Most engines would have experienced a drastic reduction in quality of idle when they start blowing out oil that bad. But the 300 was running as if nothing was happening and it sounded PERFECTLY happy.
Granted though, it wasn't running well but it sounded normal.
The Pratt aircraft air-cooled radials were also bizarrely robust. There are instances where an entire cylinder was shot off, and the P-47 managed to fly home.
Yeah I have one that’s very close to the end of its life and I’ve literally ran it dry out of oil and it just started running shitty so I filled it up and it was perfectly fine for months. These things are absurd
@@ronroberts110whoa
Dude... this is the cleanest, coolest, most honest and comprehensive build I’ve seen on youtube. I specifically like how you show footage but you pump volumes of information out. It’s the perfect speed info/detailed video combination. You’re going places man. Following immediately. Excellent work.
Tell us about the Megasquirt install on the Ford 4.9, yours is the only one on UA-cam..
yes please do
Yes I would appreciate that as well
I was going to ask the same thing. You mentioned specifics about other things but didn't say anything about the megasquirt. More details please.
Same
please do
Longest living ford motors ever built they just keep going and going
this started as an Engine masters "how to" & turned into 4 guys try to turbo a truck over the weekend, type video, I love it.
Always better when everyone's around but schedule conflicts and the majority of our projects happening when it's dark out make it hard to film nowadays.
This is awesome. Really cool to see people build these 300s
Definitely not something you ever see. I had a 81 ford f150 with the 300 it was horrible on fuel and not much power but couldn't hurt it.
@@shaggman13 Haha no way i'm 16 and daily an 81 f150 with a 300 as my first vehicle
@@shaggman13 I mean, the Ford Barra engine is basically a Ford 300 that has been built up over many decades
@@bobbybeyer2127 nope, the barra has a smaller bore spacing smaller bore, and an overall shorter block. It's DNA can be traced back to thrift power 6. The 300 is very slightly over square with a 4" bore and just under 4" stroke. The barra is under square with around 92mm bore and 99mm stroke.
sure is! i drive a 95 f150 and i just love how the cam is gear driven like a briggs
Man my dad had a 94 with the 4.9l and some dumb lady ran the red and totaled it about 8 years ago. We still talk about that truck to this day. Man that engine was the best. I wish my 19 came with it.
Those 300's can definitely take boost. Awesome motors
I have 423,458 original miles on my 71 f100 4x4 with the 300 6. My grandpa bought it brand new and I got it from him in 1992 with 174k original miles . Its had a clutch replaced and just brakes, plugs , wires , tune up parts, tires , shocks , a couple alternators and a starter and regular oil changes and other fluids . Its never been a powerhouse but still doesnt burn excessive oil or have a bunch of blowby
My 95 just hit 300k how many are you at now?
Have a few spare 300 and 302 laying in the barn! I love the carburetor 300 inline six! Had one all original in a 79 ford! Lot of miles on it!
I did this with a stock carb 300, did a draw through setup and basically richened the mixture as much as possible.
It runs great for what it is, I drive the hell out of it. 🤙
What turbo did you use?
A maxspeeding rod .63 amazon turbo lol
$100 for some budget fun, can’t beat it
@@Kodaoda carbon sealed?
@@Kodaoda seals*
Nah no carbon seals, ran it for about about a year now, still good.
It’s not the best or most efficient way to do this. I did it because I was able to fab literally everything I needed so I was only out the cost of the turbo.
You lose ALL low end torque being setup this way, but the top end will put a grin on your face.
I would only do this on a toy I didn’t have to worry about being reliable or safe.
After having trouble with oil lines leaking on my Civic, I just bent up a section of 1/4 brake line to feed the turbo. It works well and is cheap.
Bro I am super impressed, I have been in the process of building a boosted 300 to replace my factory one when it finally blows. And hands down probably the best build video I've ever watched, congratulations man.
It will blow when you die..
@@Matthew-hp2bono it'll probably still run after that too lol
I had a 1989 F-150 XLT Lariat 4x4 with the 300 inline 6 and 5 speed manual when I was in high school in the early 1990’s. It was a great truck and never let me down or gave me problems. I wish I could have done some modifications on it to get more horsepower out of it but back then nobody made any performance parts for the EFI 300 six cylinder. Not that were cheap and readily available anyway. Hope you have nothing but success with your truck.
Exactly why I am after 20 years thinking about it,,,Still gonna supercharge my 4.9.
I like oddball engines making power, good stuff..
What's oddball about a 300 straight six?
@@dougtond1380 they are plentiful, and we'll known, just not seen very often making big h.p. numbers, I am an oldsmobile guy, I just like being off the beaten path a little.
Nice vid always liked the ford 300, also like his build vid shows all the little B.S. things you encounter with this kind of build . The polished made for tv never show. Well done sir
I have a 1992 f150 300 and its ready to turbo. But I threw here to the corner for the 6.0 Powerstroke... after seeing your video i think i mite have to join the new trend. I work on yruck just like you and I believe alot of other people do to. Just slap it in and think later.😂😂😂😂 “Its all ways something”. Love the video
unlike the powernation dude you actually placed the turbo as close to the exhaust as you could, big plus you used EFI instead of a stupid carb. super great job, dyno test please
Cool build. I'd wanted to do a turbo 4.9 in a vintage Mustang about 20 years ago..... time, money and so forth. Glad y'all are having fun and TCB. Nice to see AVE fans too.😉
I own a 1995 f150 with a 4.9L manual. I really want to turbo it. Glad someone else is doing it.
You could install a Vortec belt-driven supercharger. Keep it to 5 psi or less boost with the stock internals..
@@aaronhumphrey2009have you built one or know someone who’s built one?
@@behnesluresnfishin3877 saw one get rebuilt with premium parts and get turbo'ed on the Speed Channel..made about 350 HP and 500 ft lbs of torque at about 25 psi..
@@aaronhumphrey2009 Alr thank you
My only experience with this family of engines was a '66F100 with the 240 with a weak oiling system. It failed a crank at 85k miles in about 1980 and we turned the rusty truck into a trailer. I would never ever have thought of one of these as a candidate for boost. However, based on all of these positive comments about the big block sixes , I must have just been unlucky. So maybe in the future if a truck with one of these becomes available I won't automatically write it off. I used to love the sound of the rocker arms in these rumbling under the hood of my '66 F100.
Cant wait to see this happen. I used your zf5 video to rebuild mine, just waiting on parts now.
"That went everywhere... But the drain pan"... That's what I call experience.
Lol I seen a 300 6 get so hot it locked up, cooled down and started back up and ran fine. Seen a different 300 6 drive 200 miles stuck in 2nd gear holding 4200 RPM the whole way. I've seen them with oil black as tar and thicker too. Originally the 300 was designed for Industrial Agricultural use. About bulletproof in a light duty pickup.
We have one with a rod in the oil pan we are going to try to get running with as minimal and as rednecked repair as possible
Your compression test was definitely better than mine. I rebuilt a 79 f250 300 that wasn’t taken care of on 95 100 102 105 108 and 115 psi. It had to be bored .60 over and barely cleaned up. And this motor didn’t run horrible either.
The namesake of my channel was a 95 F-150. Sold it at 199,250 miles. Transmission issues plagued that thing, but I never had an issue with the motor! So maybe 95 was the cut-off for piston ring update, don't know. But I'm for sure going to be following this! Also sounds like your channel philosophy aligns quite nicely with mine! That header was definitely after market. Was able to change the starter on my 95 no issue with stock exhaust manifolds left in place. Stinks on having to re-locate the oil sending lines and turbo location, but for the better I'm sure!
Were u ever a member on olderfseries, preplayground, fordtruckworld or fordtruckenthusiasts?
@@hobuttgarage haha, yup! FTW and PPG. Don't think I was on any of the others but maybe fordsix
@@Str8sixfan i was optikalillshun buddy.
@@hobuttgarage red white two tone single cab longbed 4x4?
@@Str8sixfan yessir!
That's smart!!! Those 300 had tons of torque
Probably 20 years ago there was a car at El mirage lake bed SCTA with a 300 6. The guy took 4 v Cleveland heads used center two chambers from 3 heads welded it all together .sounded pretty crazy
Only a short sweep of the exhaust manifold, looks like the 2.5" straight down heavy duty manifold instead of the 45° 2" outlets. I'm running a repro 2.5" for my 300 project which I will eventually boost with a remote mount turbo on a snorkel for an overlanding '82 F250 4x4.
On the 300 if older models if you don't change the pistons out some of the original pistons only have only a little distance in the amount of aluminum material between the top and 2nd ring so if you push it too hard and ts got a little mileage on them it will stress the material in places in that very small and then material and break it out if you try and run a high rpm I know because I drove one home after winding it too tight and breaking that lip between them like taking a pop-top on the can and lifting it up and down till it snaps off and damages the rings it ran like crap and people were blowing their horn because of the smoke it created trying to get it home, needless to say, had to have t bored 30 over to get the damage out of the cylinders replaced piston with ones that have a lot more meat between the rings so about 850 later it's running great lol but its a 1971 model best truck I ever owned that was 20 years ago still going strong I gave 1200.00 for it back about 25 years ago only thing wrong today is the manual trans roars in 1st and 2 gear its a 3 speed nwith 4th which is over drive with the side mount shift which has the aluminun housing i plan on pulling it his summerand replace the bad bearing or bearings since this transmittion is not out there anymore or hard to find they were used it in some mustangs also and few other cars (PS the pistions i put in back then were Baggers .30 over
I wish somebody would do a thorough and complete turbo job on one of these, with before and after Dyno results. It seems like all the ones I've seen on UA-cam are home garage hobbyist, and there really wasn't any follow-up and how much improvement it made and how durable it was.
Richard Holdener-YT Probably will or has done it. He just did a 500 caddy engine. It is my 2nd favorite engine behind the 300 l-6.
ua-cam.com/video/1tL9rRaKFSA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=RichardHoldener--- Start @12:37 He wants to do one soon, after the GM3800.
I'm pretty sure he blew it up in 3 days. He didn't have any real tuning done on it and it blew up within hours.
I'm doing one now, 94 4.9L in a 70 maverick. Gt45 with a blow through Holley. The motor is with my builder now. Once I get it back I should probably do some vids of fabricating everything to fit.
Power Nation did it. Started 88hp ended up 500hp/600tq
Another thing I've used on intercooler piping is a exhaust expander just do the ends just a little enough that the clamp can't slip off ran a car at 25 psi for over a year before selling it and never had issues
You can also use a bead roller on the end of cold side piping. A bead and t-clamps will take a surprising amount of boost. Bead roller is available from Jegs and Summit fairly cheap.
@@garysawyers8730 I was just saying in a pinch lol but yeah there great to
This is a pure fabrucobbled mess and I am here for all of it! 😂😂
That plumbing job looks trick brother, that’s how they should have come from the factory
A friend use to race one of those engines in a speedway Supermodified. They used 327 Chev pistons which are readliy avaialable.
i love the blue rocker cover
Only one way to learn, just dive in! Good job man
You are going to run out of injector around 450 hp, but it will make thick, copius torque down low, and thru the middle. Cool build.
I welded up my own motor mounts after rolling the engine over under the hood 3 times.
Hi welcome to chilis was the best part of this for me because I have that same energy all the time
Yes someone did it. My grandpa had one with a 5 speed. Not the quickest thing amd it was horrible on gas but it went the same speed loaded or unloaded.
1995 E150 250746miles does not use old between changes. 300 or 4.9 is the best motor Ford ever made . Im going to change transmission to a C6 for pulling my harley. I never get in a hurry keep praying for a million miles .
I always wanted a turbo on my 300. I wish I would have kept it.
But someday I will have another one.
They are pretty hard to kill.
Lol everywhere except the drain pan 😆. I have this same pan and forgot to remove the red plug before draining the oil in my wifes sequoia. I noticed it was filling up and though oh $hit! Luckily the engine oil wasn't hot and I had oil dry pads underneath lol. That could have made one he of a mess lll
I am a fan of the belt driven centrifugal superchargers that you can get for these trucks. Turbo is "better" overall, but the process is much less complicated. The centrifugal is quite a bit more efficient than a roots blower and makes more peak boost at the cost of a reduction of lower end boost.
I am so curious about this.i had a 300 F150 n loved the damn thing.
Hahaha what's up Chandler! Hey man glad you got this bad boy up and going!!
I always wondered if this was possible thank you for doing it
Don't you wish ford made a crossflow head? The intake on the driver's side and the exhaust on the passenger side. Bigger ports and valves. I had heard someone taking three heads to make one. Some serious welding needed and it would need to be aluminum too. great work dude
Did you punch yourself in the nose wrenching I see the shop towels in your nose!😂 classic wrenching🔧🔧
Horrible unforgiving allergies. A whack in the nose would be almost preferred!
Ford has a built in feature, hold the gas pedal down during cranking and it shuts off the injectors. This was to prime the engine after an oil change.
Many cars have this now, they call it clear flood mode.
@@TheRedneckStig I know a few do, but I haven't been a mechanic since 2006, so I haven't kept up on it.
I too would love to hear how you connected the megasquirt to the 300 I6. As a fellow man with long hair and several Prince shirts I have to support this channel on custom of our people.
18:20 you also cannot use an MLS gasket because there's no way you can clean the surface of the block well enough for proper adhesion without removing it from the truck; that sucker gotta be FLAT. Besides, having a head gasket that lets go early can save the block anyway as insurance, as Matt Happel said with LS engines and why he uses the paper gaskets so much.
For a rebuild, you might want to look into relocating the coolant inlet to the engine; the Ford 300s got all the cooling to the first piston and they tend to have issues with fuel burn because they literally never get warm enough (I8s had this problem too). the HAMB I know, has had a few threads on relocating it to a midpoint in the block.
Oh, I fucked up- look up posts from "The Frenchtown Flyer" on the HAMB. He's been racing these literally for decades.
good work guys! I Cant wait to see what failed. my guess is ring lands. turbo motors need larger ring gap than N/A motors.
That was killed by timing. Probably melted something or put a hole in the piston.
@@slopoke22 Yeah, that was crankcase pressure coming through a piston for sure. Why didn't he put a boost retarder on it?
That one time a 6th grade class turboed one of their dads truck
true.best build...notes taken fr sinaloa,mx
Piston skirts?
We don't need any steenkin piston skirts
Yep. I remember being young and enjoying turning wrenches. Now i'm middle age crazy and dread turning them. Good thing i chose farming as a career. 🤪 Soon as one thing is fixed, another breaks down..... Ran two 1982 Ford straight 6's and one 84 when i was young. Headers, intake, 4 brl carb, and cam on one of them. That one had some top end. And man were those dual 12 inch glass packs loud! Traded the last one (82 4×4 F150 short bed 33x12.50 all around) on a brand new Ford ranger XLT. Wasn't a mud hole around that truck wouldn't go through. But the lack of a/c (didn't come with one, was a Colorado truck) am radio, no cruise, got old. New ranger was "loaded" and the amenities were nice. The 4 cylinder wouldn't pull a sick whore off the pot! Now i have a 91 Dodge W250 Cummins, and 08 Tacoma. Dodge has around 500k, and is tired. With a rusted out cab. Tacoma 200k. Runs and drives like the day i drove it off the lot.
Are you going to be updating this as time goes on ? Because I'm trying to do this same project with a 91
Same here, ive got a 93 but im thinking about building a custom "tool" box in my bed that a turbo would be mounted there then piped up front to help with some of the headaches theses guys had.
I had a 1994 300 389000 kms on it.. IT RAN PERFECT....just the rest of the truck was falling apart LOL
The oils that we have now days require no warm up period. While I understand the whole it’s been sitting possible dry spots. Once it idles fine and all noises go away, Rev the thing to heaven and back.
It's all about flow in the head, intake, and exhaust to make power. Make sure it doesn't run out of fuel. Ring gap, hone and clean junkyard motor, prime the oil system. Aftermarket ecu with auto learn fueling. Holey systems are great for ease of setup. Study study and study some more. Learn everything you can about Gale Bank's! He is the best and has been doing it the longest. Check out you tube videos of Richard Holdner. He builds junk yard turbo motors.
Good luck fellas I hope all goes well with the projects I'm going to turbo a 1971 Ford f 100 short step side
That’s dedication right there .
Hey bubba I have 1993 f150 with the 4.9 and I was wondering where you got your head from and all the parts you’re using for this build
We are waiting on the new engine build!
Hoping everything is ok!😇?
Ford is know for crack or broken piston skirts. Just didn't a 2.3 with 1/3 of the piston skirt and oil rings were in the oil pan. I've also seen many Ford small blocks with cracked skirts. Nice description and video.
Finally someone doing what I plan to
You can get an aftermarket head made for it. 1 you could find a pair of 351cleavland closed chamber heads have them cut & welded together. Or buy a pair of Australian heads and do the same thing.
Those headers are insane 😂
Compounding can be setup to be very controllable, with that said compounding in a low boost system will really shine at high altitudes.
I taped off the “FORD” script on mine and did some black paint with a aluminum ceramic on the main body.
that turbo is gonna set fire to your fender son
An inline 6 without a turbo is like a pecker without a set of balls
Hey buddy I pulled a 33' pace arrow 20 some miles with a ranger at lake of the ozarks
Idk whats up with that oil analysis but them compression numbers were nice and all close together ... the 300 is the cummings 12v of the gasoline world
*Cummins*
@@mwilliamshs hope that made you feel better
Always does.
add a thermostat and housing to the back of the head, for an even water cooling flow. if you noticed how the wear in the cylinders changed from front to back
hyper-eutectic are "harder" but not stronger, in many cases they are actually weaker than cast as they they are much more likely to crack or shatter
Go with forged pistons with a decent top ring gap when turboing..
Love that engine my uncle had an 82
Use grease when drilling the pan. You catch most shavings and cleanup is easy.
So basically only one or two years of the 300 doesn't have that piston issue? never really heard about it tbh. doesn't seem to affect much especailly if yours are cracked, 155-165 psi is very healthy for an engine that only had 8.6-8.8:1 when it was new.
Hey is there any way you tell me what kind of space you are renting to do this work. Been looking for some kind of rentable garage and been unsuccessful. Thanks enjoying the video
No matter how much you prepare. There will always be coolant on the floor at some point.
Where can I get more info on the full build? I'm getting my hands on a 91 and look forward to making it a little more fun than it is now
36 minutes in... HP ratings in the 60s and 80s were measured different, 60s were crank output, 80s were at the wheels with accessory and drivetrain losses... just FYI
Clearance Clarence!
I can't wait to see more. I want to do the same
Nice work man.
I could here that it was advanced to much when you first started it, oh well hope it's fun while it lasts. Rebuild the 300 and put it in the Mustang.
No distributor, efi, just mess with the Mega-Squirt and the lap top.
U guys did really good. U build an Ecoboost inline 6. How long did it take Ford to do that now it's just work out the kinks an have a great time.
I feel your pain on the trans removal from that era blazer.
The debris in the oil just shows how bullet proof these engines are
Great video. My brother and I are about to do a similar thing to his 84 F150. We'll probably use an FiTech system to handle the fuel as his is carbed.
Just go with a blow through carb, we put a procharger on one a few years back and it worked fine, The guy that bought it still drives it daily.
@25:31Scared the shit out of me!
Hello what advance are you using with turbo. thank you.
Excellent work!
I second that!
It's definitely possible to change your starter without moving headers. Did it on my 1991 f150 inline 6 a couple weeks ago.
Not possible with certain aftermarket headers in my experience.
@@TheRedneckStig mine are stock headers... this makes sense then.
Where did you pick up the mega squirt? Did you tune it or was it a self tuning stand alone
I kinda wanna do this to my 300 six now
MY 1987 TUG MA TRACTOR HAD THE FORD 300 CI. ENGINE . LASY YEAR FOR CARBERAUTOR . IT TOWED ANYTHING BEHIND IT. IT HAD A PUMPKIN SIZE REAR END.