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The old Explorer had either a TTB or IFS front end, so neither of those was particularly great for lifting. I guess you could do a body lift but..yikes. Stock the Explorers could barely fit 31s, new ones come with 32s from the factory. I'm not saying that the new Explorer is some kind of...

A dealership. You clicked some buttons on Ford's website and then paid your deposit to a dealer, at which point your reservation was tied to that dealer. https://www.ford.com/help/terms/bronco-and-bronco-sport-reservation/ Ford: Reservation with a dealership. Order through a dealership. Pay a...

No they didn't. They specifically stayed with a reservation/order system through dealerships. You have to talk to a dealership to order the Bronco, and the dealership can play all of their normal games with ADM, pricing, messing up your order, forgetting about you, putting the wrong order in...

Uh, absolutely nothing in the Sport's size range has three rows. One of the smallest 3-row crossovers is the Kia Sorento, and it's a good foot and a half longer - that's two sizes up in the car world.

1997 Explorer ground clearance: 6.7" Motor Trend's Explorer review from 1997: 2023 Explorer Timberline ground clearance: 8.6" Which "old Explorer" are you pining for?

Yeah, that was my point of reference - it's not fully spooled until 4500rpm and doesn't make peak power until 7000rpm. And that requires a $15,000 long block. Or you could spend $800 on upgrading the 2.7 turbos, throw in a set of injectors, and you're good for over 600whp all day on a 2.7. I'm...

What's the answer? How much can a 2.7 take reliably? And for how long? People know those things about the 2.0/2.3 because they blow so early. Nobody's even thrown a rod on a 2.7/3.0 yet. This 3.0 is making more than 800 to the crank on a completely stock bottom end, just upgraded turbos and...

What? You only have to "build" a motor if the stock setup can't take the power you want to make. A 2.7 with upgraded turbos on E30 can make an easy 540hp/550tq to the wheels of an F150, which is well over 600hp/tq at the crank. Show me a built 2.0/2.3 making 600+hp that's fully spooled by...

The 2.7 is designed to run on E15 from the factory. The ECU's internal trims can add fuel to account for how lean even higher ethanol percentages run, but only up to a point i.e. you could see benefits running on E30 because the fuel trims are allowed to add enough fuel to keep it happy and the...

NICE. BD with 4A is my dream winter bruiser build.

Have a Fuelly account to share??

No. The 2.7 and 2.3 do not share a bellhousing pattern. Each iteration of OEM engines has a different configuration of drive accessories, sensors, and wiring harnesses that are specific to the vehicle it originally came in. To run a 2.3 crate in a 2.7 Bronco, you'd need the engine mounts...

You can option 4A on the Black Diamond so it's actually usable in the winter...

Poke is useful if you are rock crawling and you want your tire to be the first thing that hits anything next to or in front of you. That doesn't work on the road, because you do NOT want your moving tire to be the first thing that catches an obstacle. In most states, you cannot legally have...

Running poke IS user error.

It just gets in the way of running 42s!

Looks like the stock pull was started at 2100 RPM vs. the tuned pull at 1700rpm, which really throws off the visualization of the spool up and power at the low end. I'd be interested to see the curves when the pull starts at the same time.

Washability is a downside, as you found out. The "whoosh" sound is all of the extra particulate matter getting into your engine.

What holdups do you think will require Ford's help to fix? Are you talking about full functionality of all gauges, drive modes, etc.? Because you can slap an engine in a chassis and make it move with very little effort.

Because! If you buy this $80 filter and $25 cleaning kit you don't have to buy $12 OEM filters that actually filter more debris out of the air!