HOW TO! MAX HP 4.6L FORD 2V MODS! 

I had a 93' Lincoln Town Car with the 4.6L DOHC. That thing was awesome. For a heavy ass car when you hit the gas she went.

@@Lookin4LoveInAllTheWrongPlaces no yo didn’t, it was either a Continental or mark 8 if it had the 32v dohc..

@@NewEdgeDesigns imagine a town car with an Aviator swap tho 😎 that would be pretty kick ass.

That's the spirit-thnx for being first!

I would watch richard put a cold air intake and cat delete on a honda motor lol

@@buiItnotbought i wouldn't go that far....lol

@@buiItnotbought lol

@@HioSSilver1999 LMFAO

they made them that way so they last much longer then anything else. I still say the 4.6 is just two 2.3 4cly engines put together at the crank, that would explain why they have so much low end torque. Could have made it make more hp but they didn't want to risk the extra stress when they just wanted something that would last.

@@maxskullic9879 they make alot of low end torque from the extremely long intake manifold runners and the stroke length, its pretty easy to make em rev to 7 grand with a trick flow top end kit and cams

@@chrishansen7004 honestly they weren't bad for the displacement for their time people kind of expect a little too much from them imo. They can make every bit as much power or more as the old 5 liter engines did with less displacement and they aren't lacking on torque. They're good engines for what they are.

I liked the "triton" in the 97 f150, seemed to output considerably more torque than the 96 grand marquis I had

@@midnight347 Not to mention, they have factory oem options to swap induction, and more importantly, heads that flow 230+cfm untouched. On 281 cubes, thats gonna be a healthy combo.

@ Four Eyes any new content on the way . 🙏🏾

Amen to that. Grandfather bought a 97 4.6 brand new as well as a 2004 5.4 brand new. Put the same flowmasters on each truck and the 4.6 sounds so much better.

Just throw a kenne belle 2.1 on it, skip all the nonsense, the pricing is negligible…

GOOD LUCK

My 04 f-150 with a 4.6L just hit 120k. What do you mean about the timing components and what would I look for?

@@basicallyjayden1 No need for doing mods. Hopefully you let her be. That truck will give you a lifelong life of service.

Mine just hit 70k miles lol I had to have the engine rebuilt because it blew both headgaskets. And it's stock lol, very smooth running engine compared to my geo metro 3 cylinder

@@basicallyjayden1 I got a 07 4.6 thing never had a issue and refuses to give up 🔥

@@basicallyjayden1 Ive never had any timing issues. Only lasher ticks on old 2vs. Dont worry much unless you see material in your oil when changing. Plenty of stock timing components out there with 300k miles

Check out Andrew Lavander (spelling?). He's running 8.0s and trying to break into the 7s.

I tested the TFS heads-they work well-better than ported stock heads

Through a Turb on it now!

Richard Holdener tf heads are so $$$$ expensive😖

An awesome motor is an awesome motor. I don't care about brand. Show us a Honda K Series! I'd put that engine in anything. They can make such insane power and the mods are endless.

Agreed. I'm usually a Chevy guy, but I've owned 4 Crown Vics, including 2 right now. I needed this, desperately.

Amen bro, build that 2v, next step is a stroker forged internals n boost..

Richard would you Autograph my 4.6 book that you wrote if I send it to ya?

Fogger systems in order

Put a blower on it to shove it in? LOL Tim Matherly from MV Performance used to fly (8's in 1/4) with stock cast crank, pistons and rod topped off with those Trick Flow Heads. That is the secret. His car had a street blower and five speed at that and was heavy. Pretty impressive.

The 2v is the most underestimated motor ever.

@@lifewithanxietyeveryday5897 while it has its issues... I agree with you! They are everywhere in wrecking yards and can be built up to Coyote type performance pretty easy... I have personally made over 2hp per ci ( 304" ) NA with a 2V and over 4 digit power on N20...

ger er done!

If it's the whole top end kit from trick flow it's supposed to give you a total of 340 horsepower or maybe a little bit more

boost, say turbo will always be more cost effective, i say full build tho always..lol

Buy a 95 truck 351w! Heads can, intake and ur a hero! Mod motors cost to much to modify!@ a 351w, heads, cam, intake and ride!!

I know this is old, but what mods did you do? I have a 96 GTS auto. Got it for pretty cheap as well. Beat up daily driver for me. Brought it to the strip and pretty sure it did low 15's. But gotta pull my old timeslips out.

@@marcludwick512 First mods i did that woke it up tremendously was a 99+ PI intake manifold and matching PI cams. I sourced these from a wrecked 2011crown vic. Only other bolt ons were a 70mm tb and a short ram cold air which probably add zero hp and a 3 inch x pipe which is probably overkill for a 2v but sounds wicked. For an auto trans, i reccommend jmodding it so it goes for a long time. J modding keeps the trans healthly by firming/quickening up the shifts. It may seem scary to dive into a trans but its pretty easily if you follow along a vid of someone doing it. It ca be done in the car and i would get done sooner rather than later. If youre really looking to impove ET's and have the money, a converter while youre performing the jmod would be a huge impovmemt.( Ive gone 12s spraying on a stock converter so not a "must" but its great for a NA car trying to get a good 60 foot). Only suspension goodies it has is upper and lower control arms in the rear, removed the front sway bar, fresh 90/10 front and 50/50rear shocks and installed a good set of MH tires. It ran low 14s high 13s regularly here in Iowa at Humbolt County. Pretty average DA driving an hour to the track n back. Weight reduction is really helpful too. I got my 96 Gt weighing about 3200lbs with me in it so its got a good 200lbs+ removed from it while staying mostly full interior.

@@madmod Ok, thanks. For the PI you just did intake and cams? What did you take out for weight reduction?

@@marcludwick512 Yep. Npi heads and bottom end, pi cams and intake. Weight reduction was a ton of small stuff, ac delete, front sway bar, gutted trunk, no rear seats or trunk panel. Manual seat slider and lightweight seat, catless x pipe with dumps rather than the 6 cat midpipe and stockexhaust. It adds up quick

build your 2v bro, or 4v, whatever your truck has..

How’d it turn out? I have a 97 Tbird

SVTBird96 did the head studs from the old non-PI heads work on your head swap? Im wanting to put a Non-PI bottom end in my 2002 GT when the engine gives way. Get those compression numbers up with my stock PI heads, cam, and a tune. Thoughts?

@@obran003 better if you get an aluminum 4v engine if youre really after a compression bump. Iirc 4v pistons with a PI combustion chamber will get you to around 13:1. Youll have to notch the pistons in the 4v so theres no collision though. Plus the aluminum block saves 80lb out the nose of the car. But yes ARP head studs for the PI and NPI are the same. At least from what I have seen.

@@svtbird9613 so the aluminum 4v bottom end, with the 2v PI heads?? I was thinking a full aluminum DOHC 4v swap in my Grand Marquis, but if this is correct, I'll just do an Aviator block and pistons

@@yeanah2571 Im not sure about the Aviators but internals but Id recommend using the complete long block. 4vs flow WAY better than 2vs. I just stick with 2vs cause Im weird.

Appreciate that

Ford put OHC but used 2V only, just like a pushrod motor but with a taller head. they should've at least tried to go 3 valve. effective areas of differing valve quantities as proportion of cylinder bore. 2 valves = valves are 50% of cylinder bore area 3V = 64% 4V = 68%

@@sepg5084 They did the 3 and 4v later on, gotta remember these debuted in the Town Car, they weren't meant to rev high or make big power.

Sep G Even in 99-2000 they made a 4V cobra. Then the terminator cobras from 03-04 were also 4V with a supercharger. 05-10 were also 3v’s on all gt’s.

Carson Rasnic cobras had the 4v since 1996

Even with stock exhaust 2 valves sound amazing.

lots of 4V testing

Its the mark 7 not the mark 8

Appreciate the reply!

No it’s the Mark 8 or mark vlll as they put it ,, 1993-1998 4.6 dohc 4v per cylinder, basically same engine as 96+ cobra mustang but technically Lincoln MARK8 had it first (1993) and the cobras got it in 96,, don’t believe me do the research buddy

Your right chris cantrell. Just really getting into ford after being a chevy guy for years. Just bought a 07 crown vic p71 and was thinking about a 4v head swap. was really wondering if it will still fit in the engine bay i havent looked to hard but isnt the frame and steering arm kinda close to the 2v heads already. Not sure if 4v heads are bigger or not as far as the dimensions go. But thats fantasy talk really as im sure it would cost many thousands to spec it out properly like i would

Very much so! You've got to think, back in the day, the Ford top of the mill 289 made, what, 306 after Shelby got done with it? A regular mill 289 made, what 270 or so? That has to mean something right? I love the damn 2V 4.6's!!

@@TheVenom8343 I believe the old gt40 ran off a similar block and the drivers wanted mo powa bby so they finally went to big block but gotta love a small v8 outrunning some of the newer tech

@@TheVenom8343 I also love the 4.6/5.4 2v's!! Everyone dogs them out and believes that they are gutless turds.... That's one of the reasons why I love em. I love the underdog! And the look on their faces when you tell them that they got outrun by a 4 6 2v😏.. And they are bullet proof! I've personally seen dozens of them with 500k+ miles on unopened ones, and one with a little over 760k miles with no smoke or rattles! I own a 98 Mustang GT 4.6 2v with 520k original miles and never had a valve cover off. And it starts every time I turn the key, and it's never left me beside the road..

@@robinesavage404 the reliability is Awesome, but I've Always disliked mine when it came to making power(and the pathetic TR3650 trans). I kept it stock for YEARS until I swapped it out(the aftermarket was poor and Fast examples were far and Very Few... especially for the money). It has it's horrible stigma for a reason.

@@TheVenom8343 The race prepped 289 FIA Cobra and Daytona racers were the closest analog to what Richard built for this test, they made 385 HP in endurance trim.

Are we talk about 2 vavle or 4 vavle . Cause that car that I'm aware of making 2500hp is a 4 vavle

@@Spad68 most definitely not referring to a 2v they're either non pi, pi, or tricflow. 4v is b-db heads

03/04 heads for street and anything below 8000 rpm, the dual runner b heads are better above 8000 but the later c heads still make good power up there too

@@trevorvaughn5562 agree. only reason to use b heads in any street car is to save money. the c heads are better in every way for a street car.

What year is the 4.6 from? Are those heads a 2 valve? Thanks in advance

@@ariczacari out of A 96 mustang GT, the spare set of heads are out of an 02 GT

@@tashawegmueller1866 did you do the head swap yourself? what issues did you run into that aren't recorded?

@@obran003 I have not touched the engine it was a swap that never happened, so it'd just a complete engine and a bare set of PI heads

or Town Car

Vincent Enk lol you redo the town car and I’ll redo my Lincoln LS. Really would put the truth back into hot rod Lincoln’s lol

@@bigbrick4245 OMG that build in an Lincoln LS would be one helluva sleeper WOW!

Swap a 5.4 2v bottom end and bore it out to. 5.8 and give it some good compression and a trickflow top end kit it'll make some damn good power and sound ungodly. Pretty easy swap too it's basically a bigger 4.6.

😂

@@Dontfearthereaper001 we all did in the beginning

yes, bigger is better.. Don't believe the back pressure idiot crap..lol

4v swapping the engine is hard because there is a big drop in compression. You’d be better off just buying a complete 4v engine

@@canadianrcs9931 Correct, you have to change so many parts you're just better off getting the whole thing. I did my homework back in the day and did a 4V swap on my 1996 GT with a Mark VIII engine.

Coworker of mine sold his Mark VIII LSC for 1500 last year, I should have bought it.

@@canadianrcs9931 In the case of a full 4v engine swap, are there any adaptations necessary in terms of engine mounts and other things such as accessories (A/C compressor, water/oil pump, pulley, etc)? Or the underside of both are identical in that aspect?

@@Roddy_Zeh there is a difference, there's coolant plumbing right in front of the alternator on a 4v that's not present on a 2v.

that video is up

I run TF heads on my 5.4 2V. A 3.4 Whipple spinning as slow as I can make it puts out 620 on a chassis dyno. The 2V is a great platform

Yes please

I bolted on a used vortech v3 kit with lightning MAF and injectors and a kennebell boost-a-pump for $1500 and that puts me over the stock Terminator RWHP. thats without an intercooler. I can Add an intercooler and a pulley swap and get close to 500rwhp. best of all i can drive it without getting into boost and get the factory or better MPG.

Preston, how did this go for you? I am seriously considering swapping in a fresh built 98 GT 4.6 with the PI heads into my S197. Will be even better than a 3v possibly and easier than Coyote swap, with that awesome 2v sound! How much did getting the heads and intake cost you? Also how do you like it? :)

@@tomstamatakos8027 build went great. I only did cams because it already had pi heads. It’s actually supercharged now but I love it. Sounds great and makes plenty of power!

@@prestonsarlo Wow thats awesome for sure, good to hear she's really rocking for you! With FI I'm guessing you are pushing 500whp on the stock bottom end. Crazy cool :) I'm just hoping to have a 300whp/300wtq daily driver that can still pull 25mpg highway. Seems totally doable with these NPI long block/PI head builds!

@@tomstamatakos8027 yeah you can do it. Good luck with the build!

Me to

Full pi swapp with procharrger?

@@danielgadd2280 PI engine. Comp cams, long tubes, 12lbs.