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5.0 Explorer heads don't work?!?!

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What are you guys paying for explorer heads, and what kind of HP increase do you get? Are the heads a strait swap, or do you have to do other mods?
 

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Leeroy697 said:
I have had a set of explorer heads sitting in my garage for 4 years. I think I should look into getting those on my car.
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Who has a set of explorer heads in your garage????
 

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SWYZ721 said:
How often? I've had my E/Ls for two years and my wires are peach.
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with ford racing wires.... all the time, boots would burn and wires would make contact on hard launches, random bumps.

it happend several times while I owned the headers

really annoying having to pull over in a parkinglot to adjust them, or leaving hard and having a Bunk pass down the track. It happened maybe a couple tiems at the track and less than 10 times total... THATS TOO MUCH
 

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SeventyMach1 said:
LMAO. Yes, that's the only thing you have to do to run the intake, lol.



:OT: This is making me feel a little better. How do you think it will do with a 347? Ported, that is.
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shame on you for running an explorer on a 347. if you are putting low flowing heads on it then its fine. just make sure your intake isnt a restriction for your heads.

347 with AFRS or trick flows deserves a trick flow R, systemax II or RPM II
 

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Trick Pony said:
What are you guys paying for explorer heads, and what kind of HP increase do you get? Are the heads a strait swap, or do you have to do other mods?
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I paid 250 for box stock and upgraded springs to handle my cam.

look on www.socalhorsepower.com at the gt40p thread in the pushrod section there is a thread of our build ups of gt40p combos.


proven combo = intake... performer, gt40 style / gt40Ps with light home exhaust porting and bowl work / comp xe270 for 1.7s

295-305 / 325-330+ with all the given boltons, mac long tubes/pullies/maf/injectors/etc etc
 

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95snoozer said:
shame on you for running an explorer on a 347. if you are putting low flowing heads on it then its fine. just make sure your intake isnt a restriction for your heads.

347 with AFRS or trick flows deserves a trick flow R, systemax II or RPM II
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Haha .... I didn't say I was doing that. I was more so inquiring if one that was ported to the max would work well. I will (more than likely) be running AFR 185's .... so I guess I'll have to use the Explorer intake elsewhere.
 

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definitely run a systemax, rpm II or trick flow R
 
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