Whats up fellas! New to the crowd, New to rangers. I wanna get some performance enhancing tips for bringing out the best in the 2.5L ranger engine. Mines a '98 with a 4 speed auto tranny.

 

If you want 2.5 performance buy yourself a Subaru EJ25. Other than that good luck.

 

No kiddn right...

 

hey whats up?? i aslo have a 2.5 but im gonna build it for boost. look up turbo ranger fourm great site for turbo 4 cylnders ;D mothing against this site but this site is more for 4x4 rangers if your loooking for more of a street truck fourm go there

 

cool thanks. I put a 3" cold air breather and a flowmaster 2.5" exhaust and that helped tremendously. I have a friend that has an '01 ranger with the 2.3 that he blew up racing at the strip and he told me I could have the turbo kit off it.

Thanks for the tip.

 

the 2.5Ls and the 01+ 2.3Ls are totally different

 

so an exhaust driven turbo for the '01 2.3L wont work on a '98 2.5L? I thought the '98-'01s were basically the same, and the 2.5L were simply bored and stroked 2.3s?

 

nope. the 90s 2.3Ls were a lima engine, the 98-01 1/2 2.5Ls are a bored and stroked 2.3L lima. in 01 1/2 they switched to a DOHC 2.3L which is not related at all to the earlier lima engines. at all.

 

damn. what a bummer. A freebie I cant even use:(

 

Actually, the 2.5 is just a stroked version of the 2.3l. That goes for the lima engines. But basically, no you can use anything off the 01.5+ 2.3l engines. as stated above, they are a whole new enigne, and dohc.

 

basically what i said correct? i figured you would chime in eventually. you know more about ranger 4 cylinders than anyone on here.

 

F ' it. Imma put me a '98 4.6L cobra in it.

 

now that's the right mod to get some "performance" out of the truck.

 

thats what my lil' bro keeps sayin. hes a stang head, done had 3 or 4 of em and hes only 22. Little punks got a better job than most other kids his age and he burns his dough on stangs. go figure...

 

ah we all burn through ridiculous amounts of money at that age. Some drink, some do drugs and some mod cars.

 

yeah im turning 21 in january and iv built 6 hondas before i got my ranger ha ha..i just wanted to try something diffrent and not have to worry about my **** being gone when i wake up to go to work the next mornig. but yea deffinalty if you can put a v8 in and you have the funds to do it go for it!!!! i make good money to where im at.. but i like 4 cylenders good on gas and the look from some one with a v8 getting walked on is PRICELESS :P

 

I wouldn't say that it won't work, but you may need to make some changes to how it works. I would get the turbo system, and just get what you need to make it work. The differance is probubly in how the turbo connects to the exhaust. turboing a 2.5 lima is a good choice, so I would definately not give up on the idea. Me and danger, can lead you in the right direction.