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So some stuff came last Friday…

right now just a polished up stock crank... will need to hit the pause button on building the motor coming out of the truck...

Probably should wait for successful fire-up, tune, and a dyno pull...

Getting excited...

J2Fab 375 amp alternator

i have a smart string setup and long-acre digital caster/camber gauge which I use to align my own... along with a long-acre turn plate and three slip plates... really for my mustang, but I adapted the smart string setup to work on the wider Raptor... most will never have the attention to detail...

been getting crushed at work, so no baseline dyno run yet... but i did get the necessary piece parts off to Cody Dawson so he can finish machining the block and crank to include balancing. coming together slowly...

Completely agree on the quality of the instructions... in particular the instructions had no parts list... so it took me a little while to figure out, by blowing up pictures of their system installed, that they had sent some wrong brackets... a simple parts list on the instructions to compare...

getting ready to baseline the current setup at a local dyno shop... while I wait on machine work to get done... 94K mile stock motor with S&B intake, SW long tubes/dual exhaust, and a VMP 93 octane tune... with the rear diff locked on 35x12.50x17 Nitto Mud Grapplers (traction limited) rips...

I know Canuck714 knows this but for others who are trying to sort things out on a 6.2, there really is not an OEM Raptor Cam. There is a F150 and a F250/350 cam. Any Ford F150 with a 6.2 had the same camshaft and same motor ratings. I wish I could get my hands on an old set of M-6550-RXT (F150...

I know he wrote 2018 Ford 6.2 on the cam card so it seems a bit confusing... I sent him F150 cams... i imagine F150 and F250 cams, though different, must be ground from the same cores... since the F150 cam is the more aggressive of the two I would go that way... all cost about the same... my...

Cams are here, I'll take a pic of the cam card tomorrow... In my excitement I forgot!

I just wanted to add a couple pictures demonstrating the issue. The following is a 6.2 rod bearing installed in a Manley rod: And then you have the 4.6 rod bearing in the same rod: Initial quick measurements look good from an oil clearance perspective at std size. Fiddle with it a bit more...

Got word from DCR that the re-ground cams have shipped... wohoo! Should get here next Monday via UPS! Interesting piece, the Manley lightweight rods do not take 6.2L rod bearings... I had a single pair of 6.2L rod bearings laying around and while they physically fit, the tangs are not in the...

P.S. Most of the rod big ends were within 1 gram of the lightest rod big end, my #1 was the lightest big end... there is always an outlier though, rod #3 was the heaviest big end by a little over 2 grams. Once all the big ends were matched, for o/a weight, rod #5 was the lightest rod with rod #6...

So I promised a little rod balancing how to... there are a few good YouTube videos on piston and rod balancing... First you need a scale, i picked up a couple cheap Chinese ones on Amazon that could read to 0.01 grams... these work like a champ... remember you don't care about absolute weight...

i'll type up a rod balancing simple how-to tomorrow... after I finish balancing all the rods... sigh...

I never really explained this process, all your doing is finding the lightest piston and then you remove material from the inside edge of the piston skirt from all the other pistons until they match, mostly around wrist pin bosses, essentially just chamfering the machined edge... you remove...

it’s about expectations… any remanufactured motor is likely to be a super duty, the f150 motors are a nitch application… plenty of 6.2 blocks out there… I’m also a 4.6 4V guy, if you want a motor, find the block you want and build a motor… not a criticism, but the raptor community, by and large...

Need to get these balanced and off to Cody Dawson… to balance the rotating assembly…

Balancing big ends, slow and steady…

I had welded in a flowmaster muffler in lieu of the stock one which tweeked the rear tailpipes enough that when I did install my icons they just touched at full droop. Subsequently went to SW header/exhaust setup and modified the tail pipes to clear at full droop.

aftermarket exhaust?