Best Bang for you dollar Mod - Ford Ranger Forum

**Jon** · 02-11-2009, 02:57 PM

Anyone have ideas on what the best performance booster for the dollar? Money is tight these days, so a nice mod that isn't terribly expensive would appeal to a lot of people right now!

deranger · 02-18-2009, 11:17 PM

cheepest one i know of is taking the slack out of your throttle cable with small zap straps,by removeing the slack people are always amazed with throttle response and the way the tranny shifts.(auto trans)pull out on your accelerator and see how much slack there is.just add 1 or 2 zappers on there and presto!

**Jon** · 02-19-2009, 08:43 AM

Dang! that is a good one.

Teamexploder · 02-19-2009, 01:04 PM

One I've heard of people doing is they take their air cleaner box out and put a bunch of holes through it and they claim its made a difference in throttle response, I have never done that. This one would apply to the older rangers that have the air box ducting behind the headlight, what I had done it spliced into that with a large diameter hose from swimming pool equipment and routed it to the bumper and connected an aluminum soda can to it with the top of the can completely cut out and pointed toward the road and it did make a little difference in my throttle response when I stepped on it.

Tonya Gilmore · 02-19-2009, 03:58 PM

Unfortunately there's really not a lot you can do to get more performance out of the Ranger. Some options are putting a chip in it or droppin in a V8, but of course neither one of those are cheap

Teamexploder · 02-19-2009, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonya Gilmore

Unfortunately there's really not a lot you can do to get more performance out of the Ranger. Some options are putting a chip in it or droppin in a V8, but of course neither one of those are cheap

No not much you can do with little money. But theres the ad-ons of CAI, turbo, supercharger, computer tunes.

Lenn · 02-21-2009, 01:37 AM

What tuners would Rangers use? I know that F150 guys tend to lean toward SCT Livewire or Edge Evolution gone Gryphon.

Tonya Gilmore · 02-21-2009, 01:40 AM

SCT works on all obdII vehicles

**Jon** · 02-23-2009, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonya Gilmore

Unfortunately there's really not a lot you can do to get more performance out of the Ranger. Some options are putting a chip in it or droppin in a V8, but of course neither one of those are cheap

How much to the chips run?

Tonya Gilmore · 02-23-2009, 02:40 PM

Not sure on an average price since they are basically tuned how you want it. If you're interested you could go to www.bamachips.com

02-11-2009, 02:57 PM	#1
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02-19-2009, 03:58 PM	#5
Tonya Gilmore Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Clinton, Tennessee Posts: 127	Unfortunately there's really not a lot you can do to get more performance out of the Ranger. Some options are putting a chip in it or droppin in a V8, but of course neither one of those are cheap __________________ 2002 Ford Ranger 4.0 4x4--K&N 77 Series Polished Intake--Black headlights & corners

02-21-2009, 01:37 AM	#7
Lenn Semper Paratus !! Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Port Arthur, TX Posts: 108	What tuners would Rangers use? I know that F150 guys tend to lean toward SCT Livewire or Edge Evolution gone Gryphon. __________________ Has anyone ever figured out how much wood that damn woodchuck could actually chuck? 2002 F150 Supercrew 4x4- Cranked T-Bars, brush guard, Flowmaster 40, Volant CAI 2007 Mazda 6i SVE- Brake light mod, Airbox mod, CX7 antenna, JDM yellow fogs, 6000k HID.

02-21-2009, 01:40 AM	#8
Tonya Gilmore Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Clinton, Tennessee Posts: 127	SCT works on all obdII vehicles __________________ 2002 Ford Ranger 4.0 4x4--K&N 77 Series Polished Intake--Black headlights & corners

02-18-2009, 11:17 PM	#2
deranger Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2	cheepest one i know of is taking the slack out of your throttle cable with small zap straps,by removeing the slack people are always amazed with throttle response and the way the tranny shifts.(auto trans)pull out on your accelerator and see how much slack there is.just add 1 or 2 zappers on there and presto!

02-19-2009, 01:04 PM	#4
Teamexploder Explorer Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: McClure, Pa Posts: 187	One I've heard of people doing is they take their air cleaner box out and put a bunch of holes through it and they claim its made a difference in throttle response, I have never done that. This one would apply to the older rangers that have the air box ducting behind the headlight, what I had done it spliced into that with a large diameter hose from swimming pool equipment and routed it to the bumper and connected an aluminum soda can to it with the top of the can completely cut out and pointed toward the road and it did make a little difference in my throttle response when I stepped on it.

02-23-2009, 02:40 PM	#10
Tonya Gilmore Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Clinton, Tennessee Posts: 127	Not sure on an average price since they are basically tuned how you want it. If you're interested you could go to www.bamachips.com __________________ 2002 Ford Ranger 4.0 4x4--K&N 77 Series Polished Intake--Black headlights & corners

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