Bottom End is Fully Assembled! - Ford V10 4V Build Ep. 10 

Awesome job guys!! Just finished doing a timing kit, oil pump and lash adjusters on my Aussie 260 Boss 5.4. Some things I learnt along the way. If you buy a Navigator timing kit the left hand or driver side large sprocket is 6 degrees retarded compared to the right hand side. Something to do with pollution. Aussie motors are set up even on each side. My cams are crow Performance cams with 220 @ 50 timing in and ex. And 435" lift. I advanced these cams to 108 in and 112 ex with a 110 lsa. The performance improvement was worthwhile with no loss in idle quality. There is a rollmaster adjustable kit with Iwis chains available in this country at outlaw speed shop (online). The primary chains are not included though. Use the genuine Ford ones for Navigator or Aussie Boss 260/290. Also use genuine cast iron primary tensioners. Also you will need an aftermarket passenger side secondary tensioner. Buy a Melling 3v oil pump as the gerotor set is larger to account for the vct. And the Melling pump actually has a cast iron backing plate. Use 40 GT500 exhaust lash adjusters as they apparently provide the top end with more oil pressure. Something you will need with 2 extra cylinders and almost double the stock rpm capability!! Good luck with the build, will be following along keenly!! Tim Australia.

​@@timh6977man thank you for this information. I literally just picked up a navigator 5.4 for 200 bucks for my little Ford ranger. I'm wanting to do a screw blower for wow factor

So you guys wont let me see de cam 😢.. still needs grinding right?

woah! we'll definitely reach out!

@@biy_buildityourself Its definitively something we all want to see!!!

I don't know that I could say that better! You gentleman are on the right path. Just keep pushing hard and make sure if you need time you take it

Heh.....the interview would surely STILL be "sssssso we looked at your resume and it appears you have no experience with (insert proprietary buggy distributed command / tracking software) " 😂😂😂😂

Hope it was worth the wait!

@@biy_buildityourself hell yeah it was! Awesome work, guys!

Og in the building haha

It's all a conspiracy!!! NHRA , mopar, and GM Don't want you to know how much better an overhead cam engine can be!!!!

Never fails! Haha

That would be sweet! We haven’t figured out exhaust yet but we’ll make sure it’s something that pops when we do. 👌🏽

10 to 1 is cool, but is more complicated and harder to package. 5 to 1 equal length for each bank then an x-pipe seems more feasible.

​@@biy_buildityourself you could also do tuned length 180⁰ headers. What chassis is this going into again?

@@sepg5084 (5:2 & 5:3) into 1. Yes they won't be even. Diagram three firing order to see if the other side should be the opposite or the same

Just wanted to clarify that we aren't talking about Todd, if that's where you got the cams from. We were referring to the guy who was supposedly machining the cam cores for us.

Awesome, thank you!

Damn you algorithm!

Thank you for the support! We are using a Melling M360 and we swapped in billet gears. Check out episode 8 of the series where we break down all the parts!

Awesome!

There have been a couple builds making lots of torque on the stock crank, but no one spinning RPM. So we get to see what happens!

We'll be in touch when we have the cams in our hands!

Good to know!

We'll be running a Fueltech FT550 on this engine.

Fingers crossed!

Keen eye! We actually used ATF, they are both the exact same shade of red 😆

You are also not supposed to use just one side of a ring filer. That defeats the whole purpose of keeping the ring ends parallel. You are supposed to squeeze the ring together on the disk when you grind them...

We did consider your fittings at one point! You have some really good stuff out there! But we figured we’d give it a shot ourselves first. We’ll definitely reach out if we need anything else. Thanks for the note!

Can you believe it?!

The fittings are not hard mounted to the manifold, they have o-rings...Double o-rings 😜

Not with this configuration, the plan is to keep it NA

Just two guys in our garages!

We've seen their stuff, really good stuff! It was definitely an option, but we wanted to try making our own stuff before going out to buy a kit.

I guess we'll find out lol

and its dohc 4v like a coyote

Well, we're going to fit it into whatever we put it in lol. We'll have to measure its final weight when it's done and see!

We will definitely do that!

No this must go in a ford

@@Agilepickleunite yeah ford gt 40

Let's get this thing fired up first, then we can talk about kits 😂

The spec sheet from Traum called for 0.0035, but after honing the block, clearance came out to about 0.005, so a bit over. We spoke to a rep at Traum that told us it wouldn’t be a problem though. Also our pistons are made from 2618, if you’re going with 4032 pistons, clearance spec may be different.

You have?? Can you share some links? We’ve never heard of one instance where the split pin crank failed on these motors.

@@biy_buildityourself I’d just looked into the ford motors for a bit to decide which one I’m choosing to build and read a few shitposts on the 6.8 but looking back they’re early on in the years (probably just a lack of support and assuming) common comparison was the viper engine compared to the 6.8 as their argument. looked at the crank myself and leaned with a grain of salt they might be right/paired with the utter lack of boosted 6.8 vids. As it is visually the weakest part. Just curious if/where you found out otherwise lol or have you not even heard a word about this till me LOL because it doesn’t actually happen😂

To replace the AN line? We have to look into that.

@@biy_buildityourself your water lines

We'll divulge this one secret... It's a car

We are lucky to have E85 readily available, so we will be running that.

@@biy_buildityourself Hmmm, didn’t know E85 would run on higher comp ratios.

The block is a Ford 6.8L block. The heads are 4V cobra C heads that were cut and welded together.

We have the relocation bracket in the works. Will be on the driver side head

I shill for BiY on Richard holdeners livestreams all the time 😂

It would be cool if he could dyno the engine once it's done. 🤯

@@biy_buildityourself Your and his followers is what we want to see. and compare the 2v and 3v cylinder heads over yours 4v.

​@@biy_buildityourself I just asked him on live chat for you and he said " Yes absolutely, send me a e-mail i would love to do it" So e-mail him or contact him.

​@@johnherbold6539 I asked him tonight he said yes he would love to!!!

We don’t get why people do it 😖

We thought about buying new fittings but we decided to work with what we had!

😂