And lots of it too

 

The plugs got me thinking (dangerous I know) if you search online for F150 Ecoboost problems misfires are right there with carbon buildup, phasers, timing chains. Makes me thing Ford went to indexing just for this possible problem. Doesn't seem to affect 2.7s much. KM

 

It’s hard to do but I counted more threads on the washer one. Just pointing that out.

 

That’s cuz on the seated plug there’s that gap before the threads start probably.

 

You gonna try and patch those?

 

Looks like a 1 ply over white walls of the not too long ago.

 

Im replacing them soon

 

New tire goofin
Ditched the running boards too.

 

Good looking truck.

 

OOOOOOoooooooo She be sexy.......

 

Really dig the look now. Lots of little things hinting that something is different here without being obvious about it.

You notice the tires first and think that thing probably scoots.

Then you spot the traction bars and you know for sure it means business.

And by the time you hear it barking through the twin pipes, its gone.

Nice work.

 

Really dig the look now. Lots of little things hinting that something is different here without being obvious about it.

You notice the tires first and think that thing probably scoots.

Then you spot the traction bars and you know for sure it means business.

And by the time you hear it barking through the twin pipes, its gone.

Nice work.

That’s kind of the goal. I want it to look fast, but not be super super obvious. So that definitely is a goal for this truck.

 

Sweet!

PS. Do those running boards fit F250s?

 

You know, I don’t know.

 

Thats a good looking truck brother
Did you ditch the running boards fir looks or for speed?

 

Looks mostly, but partly for weight savings.

 

Your truck has too many doors Matt.
Good looking doors yes, just 2 too many!

But I am a Popeye fan, I am what I am, toot toot! KM

PS; How is that meth/water injection working out? km

 

Haha.

Meth works great, and it’s not causing any issues, I ruled that out. I think we just had too much boost.

 

Ran Adam’s tune this afternoon, still had spark blowout pretty bad, and we lowered boost to 24 psi, instead of 27

 

Plug issues still. See how the tip of the NGK plug is speckled, and the ford one is not?

also I don’t know if this is some dielectric grease residue on the bottom of these boots or not.

 

Looks like it...

 

Have you tried fresh clean boots? Some folks get quite happy with the dielectric grease, where they put a good size dollop inside the boot and seat it over the plug. I use a q-tip to apply and wipe around he inside of the boot. KM

 

Have you tried fresh clean boots? Some folks get quite happy with the dielectric grease, where the put a god size dollop inside the boot and seat it over the plug. I use a q-tip to apply and wipe around he inside of the boot. KM

Calling me out like that?
This early in the morning???
Sheesh man.


(I know better now).

 

You betcha Mr Shifter,

Gotta clean em out from time to time. KM

PS: Edited my post to correct "god sized dollop", I meant large just not on that scale! km

 

From my research, this is the oil used in the Ford GT. If ford specs this for the 650hp GT, then why not use it in my 600hp f150?

 

While I don't think it will ever be common to see a GT 3.5 Ecoboost with 150,000 miles on it, I do think it's a fair question! 😁

Would love to know what specific differences there might be in the 2 versions of the engine that might make the viscosity spec a meaningful controversy?

 

Well that’s what I’d love to know. Would it be dangerous to run that oil in my truck?

 

Is that simply due more to the increased likelihood that the GT might sustain high RPM, high power output for sustained periods of time, like on a track (with turns)?

And not so much the power output itself?

This is my understanding of the higher numeric “-50” in the spec.

All theory anyway, since it will probably be a number of years before any EcoBoost-powered GT turns a 4th digit on it’s odometer.

 

Here goes the build thread... Oil thread incoming 😆.

If I had to guess, the GT 3.5 may have been speced with larger bearing clearances than your F150 3.5. A good engine shop would know.

 

ive been using 0w-50 Mobil1 Race oil in our trucks, because we have a mobil 1 sponsorship.

Once that day comes when it runs out - will use the 5w-50 motorcraft you posted. I also was thinking to take a close look at the mobil1 variant: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/mob-127372-1?seid=srese1&ppckw=pmax-oils-fluids-sealer

 

What do you think about the driven racing oil?

 

Doing some research, its a oil weight thing......... DNA seems to be similar to its sister that is 30! But you know me. I will did into this as the curiosity has been activated!

 

My buddy Jake with the thousand horsepower 3.5 is starting to run liquimoly oil

 

Thus my mental & emotional affinity for 0-40 when I see that it's 80F outside while I'm still in my jammies and pulling my first shot of espresso.

In other words, it's going to be HOT all day!

My amateur viscosity rule is I can safely use an oil with the same or lower first number AND a same or higher second number than the spec'd oil.

0-40 is a "safe" substitute for 5-30, is my point.
In fact, the way I understand it is that the
0W-40 is pretty much operating at the same viscosity as 5W-30 except during colder than normal winter mornings (rare in my parts), or hotter than normal oil temperatures in the Texas summer heat and the ICE is off during EV or generator mode in the Powerboost.

ICE off is no waterpump circulating coolant, and no fresh air flushing out the cold side intake tract. Both result in heat soak increase before next ICE start.

 

Now I’m wanting to figure out how to make a windage tray and more baffling in the 3.5 Ecoboost oil pan. If that was possible, we wouldn’t get oil pressure dip during launch.

 

Dry sump 😉