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A replacement for my Baja Turbo. Which I miss by the way.

I couldn't find a correctly or incorrectly spelled ridgeline in the article. But, I'll say this, Ford will sell a ton of these. Interestingly, I remember being young when the original maverick commercials came out my parents bought two of those at $1995. Equivalent in today's dollars to about...

In my opinion, you did. Of all the exhausts that I've seen listed, the Thermal is the only one that I would purchase. Just my 2 cents.

Or you could burn incense and chant. Guys, I'm seeing posts talking about the ECU somehow adapting to airflow at idle, requiring 5 minutes to "do the math" and magically "calibrating" some sort of airflow optimization etc. It's not happening. For the ECU to do that sort of thing, there would...

Hey @ZFGracing- would you be willing to give some response to the BDX adaptive tune post? To me, unless you have some other way of measuring octane outside of the knock sensors, how can someone say they have an "adaptive tuning overlay map"? Isn't this just what's happening in the Ford...

Wowsa! That looks like subframe or A-arm damage. Want to share the circumstances?

Here's one I found-

Think of it this way- the rotating components on your vehicle come under formulae that cover angular momentum and moment of inertia. Every pound you can eliminate from rotating components (wheels, tires, flywheel, driveshaft, etc) frees horsepower that can be used to accelerate the vehicle...

We must have had the same fathers. I used to always sit behind my Dad, made his attempts to whack me much more difficult!

Is this with or without the kids in back? ;)

You're right, 40 lbs isn't a big deal unless it's reciprocating mass. Put your vehicle on a chassis dyno and see the results. Then put on lightweight wheels, lightweight rotors, etc...put it back on the dyno. You'll see a pretty convincing change in horsepower. Did you change horsepower...

The "ball-sack" dipstick tube. Is that a stress crack to the left in the first pic?

Cam phasers use oil pressure to advance and retard the camshaft timing.

Those pics are very helpful. Thanks for taking them!

I have to say, I'm not one to buy "dress up" parts for my car, but those look fantastic and clean up what I think it the worst part of the door panels. I'm buying a set! Where did you get them?

Welcome to the site from a former Michigan boy. Grandparents had a place in Petoskey, a beautiful place!

I feel your pain! I have bought more than my share of new cars- some nice experiences, some terrible. Worst was looking at a Toyota Supra Turbo back in '93. Brought along my trade-in which they took to put on the rack and inspect. Meanwhile, I sat there while the sales guy talked endlessly...

I have followed all the posts on your build with anticipation, but I'm thinking that since these weren't done at the same temps they are likely suspect. I asked quite a few questions about the FenFab setup in the thread because I wondered if the intake had been directed to some alternate source...

I thought that maybe it was too far to the left (driver's side) to be near the factory snorkus. Can I assume there is a single conical filter that feeds the fresh air to the inlet of the turbos?. Also, how difficult to take off the air filter? Appreciate the info.

Very curious about this. Does this setup utilize the existing "cold air" setup? From what I can see, the filter is at the end of driver's side...is it a conical filter, or two? How easy to change the filter? Where is it drawing cold air from?