Well you certainly will not like the mileage from that huge engine. But at least you got one of the two prefered power plants in that generation truck. Plus 4:10's. The 250's came with 3:55's, which sucked *****! The 150's even worse with 2:55's! Whats good about older body style is the thicker build to it, but like I said unless you got the 460ci or the 7.3, it was a dog. So this is where a GM engine swap comes in.
I had a friend who had a 96 F250 with a 351ci and one day he drove my 2500 and was so impressed with it, that he went out and bought one. He got better mileage with that 363ci in his 2500 then he did with his old 351ci.

If you didn't get that 460, your ranger would most likely take that generation truck in acceleration. They lacked horses back then. 96 F250 with 351 had only 210hp, 96 F150 with 302 had only 199hp, and with 6 cylinder, 145hp. Put bigger tires on any of these trucks and man they were like snails on the road, unless you swapped out the gears to bigger gears. I like the front ends with chrome package on that generation, and would love to drop a Vortec 6000 or higher in one.

 

Yep ^^^ hes right. My stock 7.3 is slow as s*** but if you attach a trailer to it, you wont notice a difference.

 

ya i havent been really doggin it at all im just babying it till i work out all the lil bugs and **** lol but for 35'sand 4;10'sauto it will get up and go 265hp and 400lbs of tourqe at 2200 rpm =]

 

i've seen fog lights put into the intake holes in the bumper. this was on a bronco that didn't need the holes for intake. i think they are for the deisel since the gas engines had a air filter much higher up behind a headlamp.

 

looks good man, get some new tires on it and it will look even better

 

900 r 16 militarys on the way =]

 

nice truck

 

most trucks up untill the late 90s didnt have more than 200hp/250-300tq stock. at least in half tons w/ half ton engines. 350 chevy/351 fort/5.9 dodge all had around 200 hp/tq. they were still strong durable engines and would pull just about anything you wanted to w/ em. if you wanted to go fast back then you bought a muscle car. back then trucks were meant for work.