engineermike

I would definitely get an intercooler. Air/air is the simplest and can be bought off e-bay for $200 or less. It will help with the detonation, too.

My advice is to start out in the 2-3 psi range. You can work your way up from there. As you raise the boost, you'll find different issues to work through. You might blow off some air piping couples, blow out the spark, get detonation, find the limits of your fuel system, etc. . . but it's best to not have to fight all these at the same time.

At 8.8/1 compression and a poor chamber design, I would think you could run in the neighborhood of an intercooled 8-10 psi on 93 pump gas. 12 psi may be pushing it and require some additional steps.

P.S. I just noticed you're right down the road.

05FordPower

Good to know man I found a kit for like 800.00 but it has plumbing,oil cooler, fittings, pipe, turbo timer, gauges and all that. Did not look like a bad deal to be hoest. What you think? I think I am just going to buy an oil pan from work and tap and thread the hole in that one instead of tearing the truck down you know? Holy snikes! You are close about 2hours give or take might have to meet up sometime could definitely use some help!!!

Scraptor

the chamber design isn't terrible.

Cali_ford28

What do you think about a t70 turbo on a 4.9is that too much im only considering cause its 200 bux lol

Scraptor

Kid at work put a t70 kit on his mustang, ran crazy good, but the power came on like a two stroke, weak until 3500, then wtf rear ended us, crazy fast at 8 psi, broke the motor at 12psi, old tired motor, 100k+ miles. Now it has a dohc Lincoln motor, with the same Turbo kit, scared to get in it myself.

engineermike

Sounds like a good deal. What turbo is it?

Cali_ford28

Sorry fellS i meant on a 4.9 but a 4.6 is what im trying to get

engineermike

Agreed. That looks much better than I expected. I'm thinking 10 psi shouldn't be a problem, tuned right and intercooled on 93.

Cali_ford28

Im also thinkn about boreing out the 4.9 what do you guys think

05FordPower

Boring it out would definitely be the safer bet, but hey you live and learn. I don't think that it would hurt as long as the boost is not turned up to much. I am not looking to get to much power from my ride maybe 300ftlbs of torque. My truck just does not have enough umph to get out and go. Plus I want to turbomy other truck but the average shop wants like $3,000 to install! I figure try it on the other truck and see what happens right?