4 the haters

[Sammy~D]

so this is what we cam up with (not perfect i sketched them up in 10 mins) but some thing like this. remember it is just an idea





and thinking to make the inserts +.0005 and the housing -.0005 heat them up and press it in. it is just an idea but let me know

 

[Bob Gervais]

If your caliper is only marked in tenths of an inch perhaps . . . .

1/10000th of an inch is not something a caliper is capable of measuring accurately. I know, I know, most digital calipers display out to four places after the decimal, but a caliper isn't something I'd use to check any tolerance lower than +/- .005.

 

[Bob Gervais]

what do you mean?

I mean don't let someone talk you into doing free "prototype" machining, with the promise of testing and reporting back. Maybe do it for cost or something, but you'll find that a lot of people (not just SHO guys) will expect their "prototype" part produced by you for free, because they're the test mule.

 

[SHOdded]

^ +1 What Bob said. True in any industry, but even more important in high $ ones like the automotive industry. "Eating it" becomes a habit and before you know it, you've lost your business.

 

[SHOmethewayhome]

it means Semper Fi, **** that other guy.

 

[zak]

1/10000th of an inch is not something a caliper is capable of measuring accurately. I know, I know, most digital calipers display out to four places after the decimal, but a caliper isn't something I'd use to check any tolerance lower than +/- .005.

That was tenths of an inch, not ten thousands of an inch, and I meant that tongue in cheek in any event.

Sammy, there is one improved, machining based SHO mod I have been toying around with, drop me a PM.

 

[Bob Gervais]

That was tenths of an inch, not ten thousands of an inch, and I meant that tongue in cheek in any event.

Sammy, there is one improved, machining based SHO mod I have been toying around with, drop me a PM.

My bad! I'm sure you've been around enough machine shops to know that machinists will often just say "tenths" when they mean 1/10000th.

 

[jimtash]

Go get the specs on the original V-8 intake that looks similar to the V-6. Make it. This intake would make the V-8 SHO into an actual 4 valve engine instead of 3 til the IMRC opens. And with good torque down low and good breathing up top. And would solve the issue of the lower intake manifold carbon problems.

http://www.v8sho.com/SHO/PreProductionV8Intake.htm

 

[boat]

This exactly.

I mean don't let someone talk you into doing free "prototype" machining, with the promise of testing and reporting back. Maybe do it for cost or something, but you'll find that a lot of people (not just SHO guys) will expect their "prototype" part produced by you for free, because they're the test mule.

 

[Sammy~D]

Go get the specs on the original V-8 intake that looks similar to the V-6. Make it. This intake would make the V-8 SHO into an actual 4 valve engine instead of 3 til the IMRC opens. And with good torque down low and good breathing up top. And would solve the issue of the lower intake manifold carbon problems.

http://www.v8sho.com/SHO/PreProductionV8Intake.htm

i would not know where to start looking but for specs on that but is somthing sweet i would not mind looking into

 

[jimtash]

Ask in the V-8 section. Someone here should be able to push you into the right direction. That manifold is probably the best upgrade for these cars. And of course Ford being cheap didn't want to use it and instead gave us that thing that passes for an intake but isn't. You see versions of the original SHO V-6 intake on the Duratecs and other engines for a reason. It can't hurt to put one on a V-8.

Contact FPS. See what that intake on his shelf is.

 

[Art5]

i was tossing the idea of the bbbs with my dad today and not knowing sho at all he came up with a good out side idea ill put a drawing up shortly... and as for gear set we can not do them but we are close to a gear and spline company if i can get skematics on it im sure the can do it

I was talking to a buddy of mine, who is also SHO enthusiast, who has few ideas about re-enforcing gears, but he told me that the weakest point of our over powered SHOs is 3rd gear. So maybe that would be just cheaper to make only that? And maybe that would be more affordable too?

 

[1998v8sho]

Here is something that I found for the V8 SHO intake.

http://www.v8sho.com/SHO/V8 Pro2.gif

 

[1998v8sho]

I would be interested in that intake manifold for the V8 SHO.

 

[kevinspann]

That's such a weird design.

 

[1998v8sho]

It is the way the V8 SHO should have been designed. I have been looking for a machine shop that would take on a project like that....nut no luck so far.

I think it's a great design...kinda reminds me of this design:
http://www.dieselstation.com/Ford/I...-Concept-widescreen-wallpaper-ds06-i2841.html

 

[Off Road SHO]

Very nice work, man. Thank you for doing this, no matter what... I wish you could do something with that intake to make it easily accept some kind of bolt-on supercharger(m-112).

I have done some preliminary machining for 1.5" tall spacers so that the fuel rail can stay where it is, but everybody I know that wants big power out of their SHO motor is NOT going to cut the hood on their car, and if it's in a North/South arangement, they go turbo.

Tom

 

[SHO U UP]

I have done some preliminary machining for 1.5" tall spacers so that the fuel rail can stay where it is, but everybody I know that wants big power out of their SHO motor is NOT going to cut the hood on their car, and if it's in a North/South arangement, they go turbo.

Tom

Tom,

You can go a little bit bigger than the 1.5" spacers. This is what I used to have, but like you said, cutting a hole or losing the entire intake is what is going to need to happen. And fitting the M112 is not impossible, but doing an M90 is feasible with a little mod to the the strut tower area.

 

[SHO U UP]

That's such a weird design.

And Kevin, it looked even weirder in person. IIRC, it had dual T/B's as well.

 

[SHOdded]

The dual T/B's may be more feasible to implement now that Ford is using electronic ones, computer-controlled. Now a matter of linking them together, like they do in computer CPUs ...