Supercharged 2003 Ford Ranger 4.0 SOHC - Intercooler Install

2002 Ford Ranger, 4.0 SOHC.
Hi Everyone, welcome to the Ranger Shop!
I created this channel to focus on everything to do with Ford Rangers. I love these little trucks, they are cheap easy to modify and great off road.
Please follow along if you have a Ranger and want to learn about modifying and repairing it.
This video covers an intercooler installation. I got the tanks from Moddbox and then got a custom built heat exchanger welded to the tanks. I am using the Moddbox kit linked below. It’s been a great kit, well designed and beautifully made.
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[@magicalmuslim]

Would love one of those intercoolers, wish modbox still made them!

[@RangerShop1]

I believe he still makes the tanks… which are the hard part.. the exchanger you can get from a lot of custom places…. if he doesn’t have them maybe he would know where you can get them?

[@ScottLight10]

Hp gain too, great videos. In the process of putting a 6.0 LS in my 4x4 Ranger now.

[@RangerShop1]

Right on that sounds awesome! My dad’s got one of those in his truck loves it!

[@MrPanoles1]

Enjoy the channel sir. Not sure I agree with moving the IAT to where you did. For with the SC cars didn't have it there and I have several Mustangs with Turbo and have the IAT before the throttle body to avoid the heat soak issues. I think you would've been better off running a Snow Performance Methanol injection. Otherwise nice setup

[@RangerShop1]

That’s funny you don’t have the iat after the turbo. You can tune it based off intake air but it’s much more accurate basing it after the power adder…. More boost usually means more heat…. You won’t know that temperature if you’re measuring before the power adder. I’m currently in the middle of tuning it myself and ford has some great strategies based off the iat…. Add more fuel or take out some timing. I’m happy I have it there otherwise I would have to keep everything very fat… lots of fuel little timing etc. definitely a bit more heat soak but it’s easy to tune for it… low idle… rpm you can keep the computer from referencing it. Hope that makes sense… so far it’s working for me

[@flyinhawaiian9174]

I used to work in a federal maintenance shop. All of the mechanics, at one time or another, would curse the engineers and wonder wth they were thinking when they decided to mount part A to gizmo B upside down and backwards. 😆 So I tend to figure things out as I go vs following a pre-decided plan as you do.

[@RangerShop1]

Yeah I hear you! Just figuring it out as we go, it worked so far! Sometimes you got to wonder about those engineers…. It’s like they never planned something to come apart!

[@theweas4910]

Great video! I just got mine running with the 5.5lb pulley with no intercooler. Highly recommend the 47lb injectors. Temps are great with it.

[@RangerShop1]

Right on!! Do you really feel a difference from 3-5.5? I’d love to hear about your tune. Are you running stock exhaust, standard cats? So you’re running it a bit rich to quench the chamber? Appreciate any info… I really like planning this stuff out!

[@theweas4910]

@@RangerShop1 I jumped from a stock tune to the 5.5lb pulley. We figured the 3lb pulley would only get rid of the parasitic loss and have minimal gains. I got it tuned at a really reputable dyno for 4.6L mustangs. It made 220hp at 240ft-lbs of torque on a mustang dyno so without the 15% loss we estimated its making 253hp at 270ft-lbs of torque. For the exhaust we have extremely “free flowing” cats 😉 with a glass pack cut out before the rear tire. In terms of fuel, the injectors were so worth it with the 255lph fuel pump. Stock motors needs to run an AFR of 14.7 but boosted vehicles need to be at 11.8 while under WOT. So the hardest part while they were tuning it was giving it enough air to keep up with the massive amount of fuel it needed in order for the AFR to stay at 11.8 throughout the entire curve from 1k-6k rpm.

[@RangerShop1]

@@theweas4910 Awesome information thanks! Did you end up running a bigger MAF? Do you remember the size? 75mm, 80mm?

[@roycekennerley3656]

Very good video, I have a very similar setup in my Ranger. When you do the tune look at the AIT de-rate value. After I tuned mine I was getting a huge reduction in power after driving a long time on hot days even after pulling a bit of timing and running rich (11ish AFR at wot). After a bunch of troubleshooting found out the computer pull extra timing if the AIT was over 130ish F. I bumped that number to 210 so it would quit de-rating and haven't had issues with Knock, or pre-ignition. Running the 8psi pully for almost 100k miles now, no issue besides lots of blow-by.

[@RangerShop1]

Thanks! Man that’s some good information. I saved your comment for when I tune it! Appreciate the info! Thats encouraging to hear you running on 8psi, part of me just wants to jump to that, tune it and be done. But I’m just not sure if I could consistently tow with that boost? I better try the 5psi first are you running methanol injection, any form of cooling? Thanks again for the info!

[@roycekennerley3656]

I have a water to air intercooler similar to the one you installed and a water/methonal Injector. I can still hit 190F on hot days wot up a long hill, but it drops pretty quickly. Eventually I will install some electric fans for the intercooler, but just havent gotten to it yet. I would also suggest the catch can you mentioned in the video, I have to empty mine every other gas fill.

[@raynerleitao9454]

Muito bom, abraço do Brasil

[@RangerShop1]

Thank you!

[@masonmorris7967]

love your vids, i plan on supercharging my sohc 4.0L in the future and this is great to know. i am currently in the process of replacing the engine this weekend with a reman from ford.

[@RangerShop1]

Glad you like them! That’s awesome! I’d love to have a reman engine to drop in! I picked up a mustang 4.0 that I have been debating on rebuilding.

[@RemingtonCroft]

Have you thought about doing a water meth kit to lower intake temps?

[@RangerShop1]

I haven’t needed it so far…, if you were running a ton of boost plus towing it would probably be a good idea. I’m going to max out at 5psi so should be safe.

[@tufgriz8917]

What intake air temp sensor did you use?

[@RangerShop1]

Motorcraft DY-1159 Intake Air Charge Temperature Sensor

[@angeli154]

Hey there I had some questions regarding an earlier video on the raptor lining process. Do you have an email I can email you and throw you a few questions? Thanks!

[@RangerShop1]

Sorry I’ve been crazy busy the last few months. I’ll check out your questions now…. Sorry I don’t see your questions anywhere. Just post them on that video and I’ll try to answer the best I can.

[@johnmurray7984]

Hi there im going to do the supercharger install and would like to add this. I noticed that your plate is Ontario, i also live there. Where did you get your inter cooler parts from and where is the rad shop that constructed them. Thanks 😊

[@RangerShop1]

Intercooler tanks I got from Moddbox, the heat exchanger was done by a local rad shop in London Ontario where I live. Talk to Steve at Ace Radiator. If you have a few buddies your price would drop dramatically. I ended up splitting the cost with a friend and we had two made…. The second one was only 50$ more than the first for materials plus the welding.

[@johnmurray7984]

@@RangerShop1 Thanks for the info, I'm I Grand Bend. I just received my ModdBox kit and waiting for a few other parts. I will talk to Aaron and see if I can get a set of tanks.

[@RangerShop1]

Nice I’d definitely recommend it. They fit really good!

[@johnmurray7984]

I was talking to Aaron and they don't have any more intercoolers and not planning to make any more., I guess if decide to add more boost I will have to do the meth/water injection.

[@RangerShop1]

Awe that’s really to bad!! Yeah methanol would work but if you’re towing or in boost a lot it will burn through it pretty quickly! It’s too bad I just sold my methanol kit because the intercooler was working so well! Please keep me posted, are you on instagram I’d love to follow the build!

[@e4mafia78]

I know it may be off topic, but how did you get to do your EGR delete?

[@RangerShop1]

When I did my swap to a manual and manual t-case it came out of a 2003 Ranger which didn’t have an EGR system…. I swapped the computer, harness, etc I think for yourself though It’s a pretty easy thing to fix in a tune though.

[@e4mafia78]

Hey i forgot to ask if you grabbed dimensions for the heat exchanger? I want to do something like this as well.

[@nolehopkins1077]

What do you do for a living sir.

[@RangerShop1]

I was a mechanic for 14years, now I work in property maintenance.