Basically a 1938 body dropped on a 2000 Explorer sport chassis with some interior switches over. Perfect for my dad.
What is the bolt pattern for these? He wants to do steel wheels with a fat white wall.
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Explorer sports never were offered with the V-8 under the hood in the pics, is it an explorer sport frame with a V-8 swap? or a full wheel base V-8 explorer? (Not that it matters at all, that's cool as fuck). Who built this thing? I'm almost surprised that I've never seen or heard of it before.
Wheels are 5X4.5, I have several sets floating around that I'd sell very reasonably that would look killer on that. None are Steelies however , but I do have some OEM Mustang 18's that would look dead-sexy on that.
I was guessing sport because of the wheels base but it might be a full wheel base explorer. Idk much about it, neither does my dad or the guy that sold it
Some guy in Florida built it, gave it to his son up here last year and the son didn't have any interest I guess.
I'm a total loser when it comes to RBV's (That's the general chassis code Rangers/Explorers/Bronco II's were known as).
Those wheels were the 'basic' wheel I think if you got a V-8 powered explorer. The more loaded ones had the tear-drop 16's, or the multi-spoke 'Limited' wheels.
Sports were more commonly found with the 'deer hoof print' wheels for the early models, and then the 16 inch 'teardrop' wheels in later models.
Neither sports or Sport-Trac's came with the V-8 as an option for the 95-05 generation trucks.
Thanks for the info. Is there any way to clean this shit up under the hood? What wires to eliminate or is there a missing engine cover? It's shoe horned in there.
Top left side plug is the main ECU, the 3 fat plugs across the top are normally tucked waaaaay to the driver side down low, and those are the chassis harness wiring (gauges, lights, climate, etc).
No engine cover on those setups, but I'll snap a photo of my motor bay in like 5 minutes if it helps you visualize it
A pic would be helpful fir sure. What year do you think this is? I'm completely lost with Fords. This is a sohc 4.6 right? Not to be a complete dumbass
Would the vin# be able to tell 5.0 explorer ?
[MENTION=126]Dasfinc[/MENTION] you are the man. Huge help, thanks! Title says '38. I had no clue they were still putting 5.0's into Explorers that late.
Apparently this isn't an uncommon thing:
1956 F100 Explorer Chassis Swap | Ford Explorer and Ford Ranger Forums - Serious Explorations
Damn go figure. Pretty cool.
I asked my dad about the wheels, he wants to go the steelies route.