Welder7018

Is there any other mods I could do to make it peppier?

LOCO LAPTOP

A camshaft, headers, exhaust, valve springs with 1.7 rockers.

Thats all I can really think of for a 302 motor other then a stroker kit.

mr7confused

In terms of exhaust work, long tubes are probably first choice but short tubes must have SOME advantage?

Then the god awful collector pipe leading into the cats. What would you recommend to improve that whole clustertruck?

LOCO LAPTOP

Short tubes do help, but not as much especially on stock exhaust. but if your going to do full exhaust anyway get long tubes.

The collector pipe, get rid of it, do something like this:

mr7confused

I don't think I could find any CARB cert. long tubes :/
I have 4x4 too, they may conflict with the front shaft. Are those cats in there or just flex-connectors?
That setup looks damn good though, definitely better than the horrible old thing Ford had going on there.

Sorry to hijack your thread here Shaun but I figured it's pretty relevant

97f150ny

Another thing is the P heads are usually easier and cheaper to find. You can also buy shorty plugs for them also.

LOCO LAPTOP

With a 4x4 you would have to get short headers, longs wont work. And custom make it to go between the transmission and the engine. At that point get GT40P heads with P compatible shorty headers.


They are 2 high flow cats not flex connectors.

Thatonekid

A double roller timing chain port and polish.

LOCO LAPTOP

Double roller Timing Chain is just stronger, doesn't help on HP. (I'm sure you know this.)

Port and Polish is debatable, IMO on a stock 302 bottom end with no turbo/supercharger is not worth it. if you do turbo/supercharge, Might as well get AFR\Twisted edge heads.

Thatonekid

Well if you have the heads and intake ported matched you can gain power not much roughly 15-20ish maybe.
I port matched my upper and lower intake when I added my spacer didn't notice much of a difference.