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351 Buildup

From 1990 Ford Bronco “Whistler” — documented by Bob Kulhanek.

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1990 Ford Bronco - New Heads, Shiny OOHHH AAHHHH! 1990 Ford Bronco - Heads, cam and Jacobs Ignition system 1990 Ford Bronco - Thermactor plugs, need them on the front and back of these heads 1990 Ford Bronco - Here's a closeup of the thermactor plugs 1990 Ford Bronco - Edelbrock Truck EFI cam, 116 degrees lobe separation 1990 Ford Bronco - 3 fresh coats of por-15 engine enamel 1990 Ford Bronco - Cam thrust plate stock, needs to be modified to clear torrington bearing on timing gear. 1990 Ford Bronco - thrust plate bolt head interfering with timing gear. 1990 Ford Bronco - Cam thrust plate with holes countersunk(with new and old style bolts). 1990 Ford Bronco - installed after mod 1990 Ford Bronco - thrust plate side view after mod. 1990 Ford Bronco - Before 1990 Ford Bronco - After removing fan, shroud, air box, washer fluid and coolant resevoirs and bracket. 1990 Ford Bronco - engine coming out 1990 Ford Bronco - All the new goodies 1990 Ford Bronco - Lightning computer 1990 Ford Bronco - Valve covers with the 351 emblems that I'm putting on them. 1990 Ford Bronco - VC mounting surface is a solid 3/8" all the way around, shouldn't have to worry about it bending or flexing. 1990 Ford Bronco - new 200 amp 3G alt, new water pump, roller timing chain and dist. one dist is the one that came with the engine the other is a new one made… 1990 Ford Bronco - Header label plate 1990 Ford Bronco - 3/8" thick header flanges 1990 Ford Bronco - EGR tube(I'll be capping off), egr goes through intake on the Edelbrock Performer I'm using. 1990 Ford Bronco - Empty hole where engine use to be. 1990 Ford Bronco - Driver's side fender well 1990 Ford Bronco - Pass side fender well 1990 Ford Bronco - Scorpion roller rockers, very beefy. 1990 Ford Bronco - ARP main bolts, exchanging for stud kit (bolt kit has no way to bolt up the oil pump p/u screen). 1990 Ford Bronco - Assembled short block 1990 Ford Bronco - TRW forged pistons 1990 Ford Bronco - Yup it's a 351 1990 Ford Bronco - Had to drill out the head bolt holes to 1/2". Only about the top 1/2" of the hole had to be drilled out the rest was already 1/2". if you l… 1990 Ford Bronco - Now I gotta paint the timing chain cover and the water pump. 1990 Ford Bronco - Grimy engine bay shot down onto a partially disassembled engine compartment, showing a rusty inner fender and shock tower, ignition coil, b… 1990 Ford Bronco - Engine bay with the engine pulled, looking down at a rusty, grease-caked shock tower and inner fender with brake and fuel hard lines, heate… 1990 Ford Bronco - Overhead view down into a stripped engine bay with the engine removed, showing the bare crossmember, front differential housing, radius arm… 1990 Ford Bronco - Front view of a black V8 short block on a stand with a cast aluminum timing cover and crank hub installed, flanked by two bare aluminum cyl… 1990 Ford Bronco - Extreme close-up of the intake-port face of a bare cast-iron cylinder head, showing a freshly machined mating surface and rectangular ports… 1990 Ford Bronco - Bare cast-aluminum V8 intake manifold sitting on a shop workbench, showing the machined port flange with rectangular intake ports, round co… 1990 Ford Bronco - Close-up of the cylinder-head mating flange on an aluminum V8 intake manifold sitting on a workbench, showing rectangular intake ports, coo… 1990 Ford Bronco - Close-up of a bare aluminum cylinder head on a workbench being port-matched with a die grinder and carbide burr at the rectangular intake p… 1990 Ford Bronco - Aluminum intake manifold lying on a workbench with its cylinder-head mating flange facing the camera, showing four rectangular intake ports… 1990 Ford Bronco - Close-up of a cast aluminum water pump and front accessory bracket bolted to the front of a black engine block, with a white arrow pointing… 1990 Ford Bronco - An open cardboard box on a concrete floor holding a set of black oxide threaded main studs standing upright in a blue insert. The empty hal… 1990 Ford Bronco - Bottom view of an inverted black-painted V8 engine block with the crankshaft, main caps and connecting rods installed, secured by studs wit… 1990 Ford Bronco - Where oil pump pick up tube mounts to main stud 1990 Ford Bronco - Bottom end 1990 Ford Bronco - Look at the difference between the stock oil pump drive shaft and the ARP one. 1990 Ford Bronco - This is the Fel-pro head gasket recommended by the parts store AND Trick Flow 1990 Ford Bronco - One peice oil pan gasket, no rtv gotta love it. 1990 Ford Bronco - Double Roller timing chain installed 1990 Ford Bronco - Almost done 1990 Ford Bronco - Assembled fuel-injected V8 on a red engine stand in a garage, wearing a polished aluminum upper intake plenum, black valve cover with a chr… 1990 Ford Bronco - Rear three-quarter view of an assembled fuel-injected V8 mounted on a red engine stand, showing the cast aluminum intake with throttle body… 1990 Ford Bronco - Smog passage 1990 Ford Bronco - Smog passage with plug installed 1990 Ford Bronco - Cleaned up, ready to paint 1990 Ford Bronco - Engine bay stripped to bare metal on the passenger side, with the shock tower and inner fender sanded clean and ready for paint. The steeri… 1990 Ford Bronco - Close overhead shot of a bare, stripped-to-metal engine crossmember and inner fender area with all grease and coating removed, ready for pa… 1990 Ford Bronco - Empty engine bay photographed from above with the freshly painted gloss-black inner fenders, frame rails and shock towers, brake booster an… 1990 Ford Bronco - Overhead shot of the freshly painted gloss-black engine crossmember and frame rails in an empty engine bay, with white brake hard lines rou… 1990 Ford Bronco - Passenger-side engine bay repainted gloss black, with the shock tower, inner fender and frame rail freshly coated and new brake hard lines… 1990 Ford Bronco - Top-down view of an assembled V8 short block on a stand with both aluminum cylinder heads installed, valve covers off, exposing the rocker… 1990 Ford Bronco - Close-up along one bank of a V8 engine with the valve cover removed, showing eight polished roller rocker arms marked "1.6R" on an aluminum… 1990 Ford Bronco - Intake gasket installed, no cork gaskets just a thick bead of RTV. 1990 Ford Bronco - My son torquing the intake manifold. 1990 Ford Bronco - Engine on the cherry picker ready to go in (FINALLY) 1990 Ford Bronco - Freshly assembled V8 engine hanging from an orange load leveler and chain in a garage, with bare aluminum heads, chrome valve covers, polis… 1990 Ford Bronco - Goin in. 1990 Ford Bronco - Bolted in place, ready to start bolting on all the little stuff. 1990 Ford Bronco - Overhead view of a V8 being lowered into a truck's brown-painted engine bay, with the lower intake and fuel rails exposed, chrome valve cov… 1990 Ford Bronco - Overhead view of a V8 sitting in a truck's brown engine bay during installation, showing the aluminum lower intake with fuel injectors and… 1990 Ford Bronco - Bracket to relocate charcoal canister under pass side headlight and reinforce rusted metal where the front of the inner fenderwell bolts up. 1990 Ford Bronco - Charcoal canister in it's new home. 1990 Ford Bronco - Spacer for crank pulley to line it up with the rest of the pulleys. 5 washers, looking into having a billet spacer made. 1990 Ford Bronco - close up of washers, 3/8". These are necessary because the fluid damper I got it 3/8" shorter than the stock balancer. I didn't know that u… 1990 Ford Bronco - Crank pulley installed with washers. 1990 Ford Bronco - Almost there, only a few more things to bolt on. 1990 Ford Bronco - Engine bay of a truck with a fuel-injected V8 nearly buttoned up, showing a polished aluminum upper intake plenum, blue plug wires and vacu… 1990 Ford Bronco - All done, ready to start. 1990 Ford Bronco - New Motorcraft Dizzy. 1990 Ford Bronco - Priming engine for the last time before initial startup. 1990 Ford Bronco - Jacobs ignition control box and other surrounding stuff. 1990 Ford Bronco - Jacobs Ultra coil. 1990 Ford BroncoVideo 1990 Ford Bronco - Fuild damper with 5/8" spacer from March performance pulleys. The fluid damper is 5/8" shorter then the stock harmonic balancer. 1990 Ford Bronco - Spacer installed, you can see why the serpentine belt won't line up w/o this spacer.