Welcome to the forum.

How (where) did you score the longblock?
They aren't always so easy to find, which is weird considering how large the market would seem.

 

Funny you say that lol. It was a pain but my mechanic is a ford dealership who shut down during Covid and kept the service department open for business and is now just a ford specialist shop not a dealer service center. So he told me it would take months to get and I checked with Fraser and powertrain products but after reading BBB reviews I tucked my tail and ran away. It was about two months since we checked with ford and jasper so we decided to check again and out of the blue ford said we can have you one in two days lol. Talk about lucky! So yeah that is how it happened

 

I’m trying to add pics of the engine but idk if it’s working. Nope it didn’t work. So anyway I forgot to mention we checked with jasper as well out of curiosity and they too could get us an engine. It had to be the truck gods smiling down on me feeling sorry for me since this happened right after I sunk $10,000 into my work truck for repairs

 

Honestly I don’t blame you for putting money into a truck you know and love. Welcome to the forum. Someone will come around with a good turbo recommendation.

 

The plan is to stay under $20,000 parts and labor. The guys at the shop are installing the engine and anything I bring them to go with it like turbos, intercooler, torque converter and things like that. They’re charging me around $3,000-$3500 labor to do the swap and install upgrades. They will furnish all the little sensors and plumbing for turbo coolant lines and anything that it needs like that. The engine was $7500 I think it comes with a 3 year XXX miles warranty. Not sure on mileage yet I forgot to ask the mechanic. The turbos, AMS adapters, upr dual valve catch can, full race high mount intercooler, and CRP ported manifolds are just under $5,000 so that puts me around $16,000 total. Now I gotta decide on torque converter, exhaust, still gotta buy the cold air intake system from banks or go with a different one. I just like the banks system. I gotta look into tuners and tunes, and anything else I may need to make my truck reliable and still be a Ripper! Wow it seems crazy when I type it all out!

 

I'd look at full race for manifolds. They may be worth contacting to point you in a good direction for turbos as well.

 

I have done a little research but not nearly enough on full race and their upgraded turbos. Aren’t their stuff similar to the GT turbos or the ford performance turbos? I’ve read up more on the KC Reaper 500 kit but they show to be only for 13-16 year models and the 11-12 models are (coming soon) I’ve looked into garret powermax turbos, and the updated Borg’s from full race but I kept going back to the screamers from BD diesel. I guess because I haven’t seen many using them. I like being the first to try stuff in my area lol

 

I believe Ford's warranty is unlimited miles/3yrs.

I'm jealous, I'd keep mine for longer but the rust belt is havoc on parts and the body. I've seen the salt trucks out when it's been 35 and they thought we'd get 2 inches of snow, it sounds like I was driving down a gravel road.

 

Oh wow I hope it’s unlimited miles!!! So yeah we don’t have that issue here in Alabama. We’ve got family up in Iowa and visit them a few months ago back when it was snow on the ground up there. They are wild with salt for sure. I got my truck home and scrubbed it front to back and everything underneath haha.

 

So we’ve got the old engine out waiting on parts to get here for the new one. I decided to go with Full Race Formline Kit with the garret pmax turbos and their in-house adapters and manifolds. So my mechanic is having issues with getting my old injectors out so I told him I’d just buy new but I have no idea what I need for my setup. Only looking to pump out 500-550hp from a factory brand new engine. I’ve seen Deachworks and that’s it for ecoboost. Or maybe I’m not looking close enough. Could use some pointers please. Thanks

 

 

 

Waiting on the high mount intercooler kit from Full Race and a couple of other items. Cold air intake, catch can, and exhaust. Then I need to get a tuner and some tunes to make it all work lol. Excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel

 

The only disappointment in this entire build is the fact I can’t run my turbosmart blowoff valves on these garret powermax turbos! Oh and Danny over at FR informed me there is no aftermarket bov currently available for these. What the heck is that? If the bolt holes match up just a little I’ll take it to a machine shop and cut it down to where it would work but I don’t think it will. So no BOV’s on the PMAX’s. What a life!

 

Wow! Picture is certainly worth 1k words in this case.

 

Good rebuild! Some things I might not do like the catch cans or the cat-less down-pipes, but that is opinion. Surprised you can't find an aftermarket BOV setup. Tunes should be no hassle as there are a lot of good sources. Pros and Cons of the various tuning devices and other threads. Keep posting your progress. Something interesting to us all! KM

 

I wasn’t going to do exhaust but mine was looking bad and I am gonna do an aftermarket cat that goes in right behind the downpipes. I’ve seen one that is made by Flo-Pro I think is the company. I know they make the resonator I want if I use one. Still unsure on the exhaust situation but I don’t care for the cat’s being cramped in there like the factory ones.

 

Looking really good.

 

Ok so I can’t seem to find the Catalytic Converter that installs after the downpipes. I know I seen one from Flo pro that was for sure what I want to use. I think it was a 200 cell or maybe 300 but I forgot to save the link and I can’t find it on the web anywhere now. Does anyone know of another brand that installs below the Down pipes or am I screwed?

 

This set up? - 11-14 FORD F150 3.5L FLO PRO 865 4" CAT BACK DIESEL KIT ECOBOOST WITH MUFFLER | eBay

 

Can’t you put in any other “universal” cat?

 

That’s what I’m researching now. I think you’re right about the magnaflow cats

 

I’m seeing folks comment that Flo-Pro and Magnaflow were the same items, using same part numbers too.

 

So now I’m going with the mishimoto intercooler that mounts in stock location. Full race just informed me their high mount won’t be back in stock until October and I can’t wait that long. Who knows what my truck will have on it when I’m finished lol.

 

Update!!! Got truck done today. Here’s what all I ended up doing:
New long block from ford and went ahead and got a new intake manifold, Deatschwerks 1700cc injectors, Mishimoto Intercooler kit with charge pipes, full race manifolds, garret pmax turbos, turbo adapters from full race, cvf catless down pipes, Flo-Pro 4” cat back exhaust with their twister resonator and muffler (sounds amazingly good). Banks Ram Air intake. 3 bar Map sensor and Sct x4 tuner with 5 star tunes However the truck won’t run right with the tunes so I guess I’ll be working with them until we get it dialed but for now it runs decent with the stock tune. 5 star told me the sct x4 doesn’t like the 3 bar sensor and I need the stock one if it runs bad. Well I’m gonna try that tomorrow but I feel like that won’t help. I’m just gonna try it since they said that. It just runs rough at low rpm and cruising speeds it has a surge in rpm and seems to lose boost at each surge. So I put it back stock until I try the sensor. Overall I am very happy with the build.

 

Great job! How about a few pictures of that engine bay?

 

The amazing thing is after all the money spent and the work we did it’s almost all covered up with the dirty parts that we reused haha. I have got to do something about that sooner than later for sure but yeah I have a few pictures I’ll post them soon as I can get better cell service

 

 

 

Trying to get everything cleaned up. Waiting on some decorative engine bay parts and still got to install the catch can and some other small things like new coolant lines. I’ll get more pics as I continue but for right now I need to let the wife breathe for a day or so before I order more parts 😏

 

So I installed the new 3 bar map sensor from American Trucks earlier and the performance tune is doing way better except when I’m passing a vehicle and it drops to 4th gear about half throttle I notice rpm is surging bad and turbos are barking so they’re losing boost pressure I guess. But the second I push the throttle a little more it cleans up and rips! It also shifts a tad harder from 2-3rd. I’ve read that that’s part of the ECM adaptive learning and will clean up in 300 or so miles. We will see. Either way I’m very pleased with the truck! I’ll update more as I progress. Thanks for the help with answering my questions I really appreciate that!

 

Okidokie so the truck has around 400 miles of highway driving with the occasional haul mode activated from time to time. The tunes are still jacked up. 93 perf tow just will not stay running at all and the 93 performance tune runs decent but shifting is terrible. Very hard shifts from 1 through 5 and even harder downshifts from 3-1. Besides that I can put around and it runs ok but at 30% throttle or 2500rpm and up it surges back and forth until I mash the pedal on down to halfway or more then it rips!!! I would really like it if 5 star tuning would just let me drive out to their shop and them check it out and then send me a tune that I can use.

 

Is it normal for the guys at 5 star tuning to not respond to emails? I know they’re busy but my tunes are not right and I need to know what I’m supposed to be doing. Data logging I presume but no idea which Pids to use. I’ll keep trying to reach them when I get off work