5.0 Coyote V8 engine swap kit for Bronco 6th gen now available

[OverBudget]

The Wrangler 392 would like a word...

I'm aware of it's existence, Was the wrangler 392 a spur of the moment "they just passed a bill" thing though or was it planned years in advance? Actual question.

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[JBlanco]

I'm aware of it's existence, Was the wrangler 392 a spur of the moment "they just passed a bill" thing though or was it planned years in advance? Actual question.

I believe it was more of a "WTF! Ford actually built a Bronco so there will be competition in the segment! Throw in a V8 now!" I also think manufacturers pre plan for these types of events in case they are needed. Like for example, Ram will put the HEMI in the new 1500 that was "never designed to have a V8"

 

[telenerd]

Lame it’s in a 4 door

 

[SierraBronco]

Lame it’s in a 4 door

Ruhroh. You’re going to upset the moar door owners…

 

[Chrome_Pony]

I had plans to do a 3.0 short block, but keeping the 2.7 heads for the dual injection. Would’ve been a really cool build. But I decided to buy a corvette instead lol

 

[Ducati1098]

lol sorry to disappoint. Maybe it’ll still happen one day

 

[Mikesmallcrawler21]

Ruhroh. You’re going to upset the moar door owners…

Im more upset with the spelling of "moar door" than I am anything else...

 

[BroncocnorB]

Im more upset with the spelling of "moar door" than I am anything else...

I thought it was boor door

 

[feeble]

Got excited when I saw “kit” In the title. Unfortunately, not a kit - they do the conversion at their shop.

By the time my extended warranty is up, hopefully the kit will be a thing.

 

[Beach_Bum]

Im more upset with the spelling of "moar door" than I am anything else...

No, it's spelled correctly and intentionally. You are giving away your age. The term MOAR goes back 20 years and it was a humorous reference to demand more. It is the combination of 'more' and 'roar'.

 

[swamp2]

Turbos are FREE power and make an engine MUCH more efficient power to size. It's like what, 3 extra moving parts per turbo, the turbo/compressor/shaft assembly, the waste gate, and a blow-off valve, with piping (an intercooler is just piping that dissipates heat)... A Coyote with turbos is the ultimate way to go. Wait, a Godzilla with turbos........

I get your point, but there is no such thing as a free lunch. Back pressure driving through turbo does create losses (which are of course more than made up for by the gains). There are also frictional losses and issues like heat soak (thermodynamic loss)
However, technicalities aside and as I'll get to below, there is another huge type of "loss".

...still think the 7.3 is better due to low rpm torque.

Ford didn't do it because it doesn't make sense to put in a heavier engine that makes peak power in higher RPMs in something built to off road and/or mall crawl. The current engines available for the Bronco make better torque where these things need it.

Not everyone only crawls. If you haven't, you need to drive a Raptor in some sandy, open, high speed terrain in Baja mode. If you are driving "properly" (i.e. aggressively ), rpms stay quite high and there is a lot of shifting to support that. It's downright infectious.

That said what OEMs do is more about cost and profit than anything else. What made sense in all of the Broncos was to leverage high volume manufacturing efficiencies and simply grab an engine "off the shelf". Cost is king!

But now lastly and far from least, what is lost in a turbo are really big things - throttle response, sound and overall engine character.

There is a reason that as engines get higher and higher performance (racing) their redlines generally go higher. Making torque is good whereas the ability of an engine to make said torque at higher and higher rpms is what gets true performance (torque at high rpm = high power).

As much as I love my Raptor it has bad turbo lag. Not only does that hurt performance but it hurts when you really want the power and you have mashed it and then.... wait...wait.... oh here you go, I'll spool up now and gradually let you have some juice. The throttle response in a performance oriented NA engine is both useful and down right addictive, regardless of the type of driving one is doing.

Sound is similar. What our rigs sound like absolutely matters. Sound can make a vehicle seem slower or faster than it is objectively. Again, nothing beats the scream of a high performance/high redline, NA engine with a good exhaust. In comparison my Raptor sounds a bit anemic, plugged up and warbly.

To each their own and luckily for us choice is expanding.

 

[SierraBronco]

I thought it was boor door

Also appropriate, as the addition of two moaroorer doors is so limiting that the bronco is no longer capable of anything exciting.

 

[2door]

Ford didn't do it because it doesn't make sense to put in a heavier engine that makes peak power in higher RPMs in something built to off road and/or mall crawl. The current engines available for the Bronco make better torque where these things need it.

The weight of EcoBoost 2.7 and Coyote 5.0 is the same – around 440 lbs. The low end torque of the Coyote can be improved by readily available aftermarket goodies and a tune. Whereas there's no way to make the EcoBoost sound as sweet and emotional as a V8.

 

[MWILD]

Next we need to figure out a way to do a junkyard LS swap

 

[mcinfantry]

There’s 30-40 people on this very forum that have clearly stated they will buy it. Im very very excited to see them do it!

Guessing 30-40K?

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