3 Liter 2001 Taurus w/2004 Cams

[BurritaSVT]

I am finishing up the engine for a customer and we will be testing the 2004 cams with the SVT upper intake with the LIM mod with NPG cold-air system with gutted cats with my own custom y-pipe with catless only Res. We will run the setup stock tune with stock airbox then add a tune then we will switch out to NPG cold-air . The dyno will show all the gains with the setups then we will swap over to the oval port LIM and UIM to see if the power falls off like we suspect due to the resonance frequency of the ports and smaller ports. We will run the stock tune on that setup then cold air then tune and compare all the dynos

Here is the engine going in the customers' car for dynoing.

 

[todras]

What oil was used on that engine?! Ick!

 

[69Boss302]

Aren't they the same? Or do you expect to see a difference in numbers between the 01 and 04 cams?

 

[Pudmunkie]

What oil was used on that engine?! Ick!

Pretty gross, some of Rara's parts looked like that too :help:

 

[BurritaSVT]

Aren't they the same? Or do you expect to see a difference in numbers between the 01 and 04 cams?

No cams are not the same the 01 only have .16 lift and the 04 have .19 lift on the intake side and exhaust side. Remember the SVT cams and the SE cams have .19 lift too the only cams that have low lift are the eariler 3 liters. Joey

Oh the duation on the SVT cams are much hotter than all the cams too.

 

[69Boss302]

So I did good to get an 04 motor then.

 

[procyon]

Burrita, don't confuse people by just calling them 2004 cams. Not all 2004 model 3.0L engines had the same cams even among the non-vvt engines. Use the vehicle and year or even better the part number on the cams so that people know what exactly you are using.

For reference, read my post in this thread...
http://www.contour.org/ceg-vb/showthread.php?t=19592

 

[BurritaSVT]

Burrita, don't confuse people by just calling them 2004 cams. Not all 2004 model 3.0L engines had the same cams even among the non-vvt engines. Use the vehicle and year or even better the part number on the cams so that people know what exactly you are using.

For reference, read my post in this thread...
http://www.contour.org/ceg-vb/showthread.php?t=19592

Yes my bad I guess most 2005 all do from what I heard. Here are the final pics going in the car tomorrow. ehhhh long dayyyyyyyy

 

[69Boss302]

What fuel rail is that?

 

[BurritaSVT]

What fuel rail is that?

I didn't have the escape 2000-2004 fuel rail so I used the 3.0 mazda 6 VVT engine fuel rail which I am glad it works too because the VVT swaps are going to be the new swaps by 2008 in the cougars/contours while using the VVT cams (functional too)

 

[69Boss302]

I think it just looks really cool.

Did you have to braze it?

 

[BurritaSVT]

I think it just looks really cool.

Did you have to braze it?

no I didn't have to vraze it I used this peice

this component I sell make the returnless fuel rails (oval port ones) work with the return style contour fuel lines. This product makes the 3 liter swaps even easier on fuell swaps or hybridnized ones like this one. Joey

 

[BigBEN]

Very cool man, i am anxious to see the numbers that this setup makes!

 

[PurpleMystique]

no I didn't have to vraze it I used this peice

this component I sell make the returnless fuel rails (oval port ones) work with the return style contour fuel lines. This product makes the 3 liter swaps even easier on fuell swaps or hybridnized ones like this one. Joey

I'm still hoping for some sort of a quick how-to for this piece if you have time.

 

[69Boss302]

looks to me like it plugs in line

 

[AliasJerk]

I was actually talking to a Guy who works for Ford Coperate in their powertrain department the other day. I told him that people had been mating 3L duratecs to MTX-75 transmissions, putting SVT cams and the SVT UIM and LIM onto the 3L motor, along with a turbo kit (nautalis kit) and were making 350ish horses. pending upon boost. He raised an eyebrow, sounded really interested in it, he told me Ford was going to start trying out some different turbo setups, so keep on the look out for turbocharged duratecs, because its a possibility.

Completely unrelated: He also told me that the new Microsoft Sync in the new focus and such, was actually developed with Apple Computer's help, which I found slightly interesting.

 

[PurpleMystique]

Well they had to integrate it with iPods, so of course they would have had Apple's help.

 

[TRicker]

that's a used block? what you guys doing to clean that stufff???? nice lookin

 

[Rara]

that's a used block? what you guys doing to clean that stufff???? nice lookin

Looks like fresh silver paint to me, lol.

 

[bagged]

Looks like fresh silver paint to me, lol.

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