Shopping List: Boosting your car

[Dasfinc]

Getting the remainder of my budget lined up for the ranger, and am going to order a few nick-nacks, but am just curious what all I should keep in mind for boosting the truck.

I'm ordering:
AEM Wideband A/F gauge (No calibration, good price, good warranty)
Autometer Boost gauge (Doesn't look chincy like the super cheap gauges)
A-pillar pod (going to paint to match the interior trim color)

Apart from those 2 gauges, anything else I should really get/replace before boosting a motor that wasn't boosted from the factory? My fuel pump puts out more than enough to feed the V-8 and the blower, but I will begin looking into replacing it with a Walbro 255 unit if they make it for my truck unless there is a better brand/suggestion? (I'd like to stick with my stock fuel tank)

I've also read that I should run a spark plug 'one step colder than stock' Any idea how I can find out what that would be exactly... and how to search for it at a place such as autozone etc?

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[Yaj Yak]

you are doing that m90 thing?

 

[skeezer]

 

[DanJ]

M62

 

[Mook]

you drive a truck???

 

[DanJ]

I can't believe he kept this project so secretive

 

[Dasfinc]

 

[DanJ]

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You have so many threads and have entertained the idea of taking this project in several directions, so no one knows exactly what boosted project you are talking about. Are you doing that M90 or did you find a more suitable blower for your application?

 

[Jean Ralphio]

 

[machausta]

Go get yourself some NGK TR6 plugs, those are colder and great for FI setups with modest boost levels (or NOS).

 

[skeezer]

I vote to lock thread.

 

[Shibby50]

Go get yourself some NGK TR6 plugs, those are colder and great for FI setups with modest boost levels (or NOS).

Not for NOS they actually had a huge thing over on ls1tech now and everyone using them for nos is like its the br7ef series now-a-days i hear

 

[machausta]

Cool, thanks for the update.

 

[10sec]

Go get yourself some NGK TR6 plugs, those are colder and great for FI setups with modest boost levels (or NOS).

I believe the word you're looking for is "nitrous" since N.O.S. Is a companys name, not the actual gas/liquid itself. This isn't fast and furious.

 

[DanJ]

10secsomeday don't know dick about running some nawz

 

[machausta]

I believe the word you're looking for is "nitrous" since N.O.S. Is a companys name, not the actual gas/liquid itself. This isn't fast and furious.

But its soooo cool!!

I could use the chemical formula N2O if that would make it better, though that molecule doesn't truly exist by itself in nature -- it would technically be N4O2 but that is way under-cool sounding.

 

[DanJ]

But what if those plugs truly are the best for utilizing nitrous oxide with a NOS system by Holley?

 

[10sec]

n2o works too

 

[DanJ]

But definitely not for ZEX

 

[10sec]

Nitrous is a helluva drug

 

[machausta]

n2o works too

I can't even be an asshole without anyone not getting offended.

/thread

 

[Jean Ralphio]

But its soooo cool!!

I could use the chemical formula N2O if that would make it better, though that molecule doesn't truly exist by itself in nature -- it would technically be N4O2 but that is way under-cool sounding.

Hey man, you should be going to MIT or something

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

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You have so many threads and have entertained the idea of taking this project in several directions, so no one knows exactly what boosted project you are talking about. Are you doing that M90 or did you find a more suitable blower for your application?

This guy has 12 other threads about this truck. Why not just bump one of those with your questions

 

[99PONTIACGP]

Hey man, you should be going to MIT or something

 

[machausta]

Probably more the 'or something' category there...