My Supercharged 1996 Windstar

Here's A few pictures of my engine prior to it being installed, the picture on the top right was taken at Super Six Motorsports prior to it being shipped to me. Imagine the anticipation that was building while I awaited its delivery.

The picture on the left show's some of the internal parts of my engine, the shortblock with the pistons dished out to lower the compression which allows for the engine. The inside of the block gets painted to help the oil drain back to the pan. The compression ratio is right about 8.5:1 On the rightis a view of my Crower roller rocker arms, valve springs along with the lower intake manifold ready for the supercharger adapter to be bolted on.

Programming my factory ECU just wasn't going to happen so that's a friend of mine stepped forward and sent me an EEC out of a 1998 Windstar. That being said, my engine will be tunable through my SCT X Cal 3 power programmer is bringing things together. Between it and SCT's Advantage III / ProRacer software package will be able to change all of the settings and the factory ECU. The factory ECU was exchanged for that out of a 1998 Windstar PPE5 which is digital rather than analog allowing it to accept tunes.

How sweet it is to have friends that can make anything out of nothing and this is the second go around for my Plenum which would normally accident facing they often set direction (directly under the windshield). This allows for more room between the master cylinder and throttle body where there was none before. The ingenuity behind stuffing a 3.8 liter, supercharged engine into a Windstar, it's something I wouldn't recommend to anyone or everybody UNLESS you have more time to think about what you're doing and what's really getting down...

Even though my engine is installed, that doesn't mean the work and thinking that goes into putting a project such as this together at first stops. If I had a dollar for each hour of sleep that I've lost over thinking about what still needs to be finished to make it perfect, quicker and better... As many times as it seemed there wouldn't ever be any light at the end of the tunnel, the light is getting pretty damn bright!

Just because a part isn't visible to everyone doesn't mean it shouldn't be a machined to the highest tolerances in order to get the most performance or in this case the most life expectancy from a part. These rollers are machined out of stainless steel with sealed roller bearings so that maintenance is zero. Originally, these rollers were made of nylon with a simple screw through them. You can't put a price on good friends with these type of skills!