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Originally Posted by apocfox12  i have a 1993 thunderbird lx with a 3.8l v6 and i want more horse power its an automatic and i want to get close to 300 hp can anyone tell me what i should buy |
its gonna take a fair amount of modifications and some kind of power adder.
base hp is 140 base torque is 215. with it being an auto the drive train loss is gonna be around 18% (if the transmission is relatively new).
basically what im saying is u have a car that makes about 120 horse power at the rear wheels, so ur looking at 180 rwhp gain. with a supercharger at 8 psi you should have a healthy gain but you'll only see around 220 rwhp (best case scenario)...
just for the super charger application ur looking at better injectors, possibly fuel rails, the supercharger kit itself (which sometimes they come with that fuel stuff), a higher volume fuel pump (nothing less than 190lph) and some exhaust work to help push out more of the exhaust to pick up that much hp. all said and done ur looking at around 6g's, and thats if the trans is to stay healthy, the tires grip, and u dont destroy the factory short block in the process.
ur best bet would be to sell and pick something up with an 8 cylinder motor, the aftermarket for the ford 5.0 is HUGE, and parts are a dime a dozen. but even there ur looking at a heads, cam, full exhaust swap to make around 300 hp.
just my .02. hopefully i didnt burst your bubble too much, then again if you have deep pockets 300 hp isn't out of the question. just remmeber that car would sell on the market for around 1200 bucks, do you really wanna put that kind of cash into a car you wouldn't be able to sell and make anywhere the money back that you put into it?
Travis
