1947 ford ranger...

I don’t think the pics show it that well, but it’s seriously heavy duty (and heavy!) so I can bash it about a fair bit without worry of altering its shape much. The drop plates that run down to the bumper irons are 1/4” thick, that bottom tube is 1/4” wall gas pipe (so I can jack on it) and the thinnest material anywhere in the entire assembly is 1/8” thick.

This is fantastic and can't believe how well the proportions work, have to be an expect to spot it wasn't quite what it should be. Love it

This is going to get a lot of us thinking about how we could do this ourselves!

Well, I went to the northern swapmeet and spent a whole £35 on myself! Did manage to pick up a few bits for mates though.

I went cashed up and ready to buy anything I needed to get this finished, so obviously that meant there was curse word all I needed there! All I bought was a new cowl vent seal for £20, and a couple of 3” stainless bends for doing the inlet pipework for £15.

Ive just about given up on autojumbles, I like a good rummage but it all seems to be rubbish now!

Nice job on the pipework!

I only do the nsra ones as they’re the only ones really relevant enough to my interests, plus one is less than an hour away from where I live and the other is 15 mins from my parents, so they’re pretty convenient for me. There’s very little else that isn’t a huge trek away.

Dez, you've got to take the truck in for its recall when it's done! And please video the reaction...


I know there aren't any airbags any more, but it'd be brilliant to watch!

Only just seen this thread - thanks for making an enjoyable Friday night!

The donor vehicle had astronomical mileage, but I see that as a good thing as it means everything has been replaced, often more than once. This appears to have the diff replaced too. The back end on em
Is quite lively...

Next thing I think I messed about with was trying to sort the inlet setup. It’s still incomplete as you’ll see shortly. It’s all been rather difficult as I really have nowhere sensible left to put it.

I need to mount the MAF before the turbo, then have some sort of filter setup before that. But there’s nowhere in the engine bay left for it really.
The other restriction is the inlet pipework has to be 3”, as that what size pipe the MAF has to fit into.

So, I bought a 3”>2” reducer bend, to go with the 3” bends I bought at the swapmeet. Has to be a bend as there no room for anything else because of the alternator.
Here it is mocked up, without the wings on.



My initial plan was to try to go through the inner wing, along towards the headlight then put it back through into the void in front of the rad, like this-




But, there really isn’t room to get a 3” pipe through there because of the rad/fan/intercooler, so I can’t do that.

I did eye this space at the back of the engine bay near the firewall by kicking the bend backwards instead, but it’ll be hot air so not ideal.




My current thinking is to go out through the inner wing, but then kick the second bend down and have a canister type filter mounted upright below the headlight, and I’ll be able to loop an intake pipe under the bumper mount and into the grille area to draw cleaner air. This area here to be exact. Might even be able to mount it off the unused ranger bumper/body mount.


It’ll be in the wheel spray zone, but if it’s in a canister (like a cheap CDA type airbox or similar) it won’t matter.

So, I reckoned the next step would be to figure out what else I’m going to use for the system. So I had a look at mounting the MAF into the stainless pipe . For this to be about the same distance from the turbo as it was previously, it would be just inside the inner wing in the engine bay, which is much preferable to it being in the much dirtier under-wing area.

After reading up on MAFs, it seems there’s only really a few types, and what I had is the ‘denso’ type. It originally mounted into the plastic housing that was the top of the airbox (I’ve chopped it out here for mockup purposes)


How it sits in a 3” pipe and why it can’t really go into a smaller one-


Removed-


The MAF mount is a bit odd, it has raised bosses to stop you over tightening it, the bosses are offset so you can’t fit it back to front, and it has an O-ring seal in the middle. It would be a bit of a faff to fab one, But as MAF sensors are fairly generic, it means there are aftermarket mounts available for them. I managed to find a seller in the states doing the correct type, listed for Subaru applications



For the price I elected to buy one, given the amount of hours in making one.

A coupe of weeks later, and here it is-




The only slight issue is they sent me the wrong bloody one.


But their customer services are great, so a correct one is on the way. A bit of a delay but I’ve got plenty of other stuff to do whilst I’m waiting. So if anyone needs stainless denso type MAF mount for 2.5” tube, let me know!