[greasemonkey]

powerstroke= respectable torque, poor fuel mileage *sputter*cough*BOOM!
cummins=awe inspiring torque, bulletproof reliability for a very long time and excellent mileage.

well I do realize I asked this in a ford forum...not that I think fords are bad but um, if I was putting a diesel in I'd use a cummins. No one in their right mind can argue that a pwrstroke is better than a cummins in 1. reliability, 2. power, 3. tuneability and 4. torque curve. industry has already proved it time and time again. and no I don't want this to turn into a ford vs dodge truck war. I do have an interesting perspective on this...I know of a LOT of shops that do cummins engine conversions into chevy and ford trucks, gas or diesel, and I still haven't heard of any shops that pull powerstrokes to transplant them into anything else...and don't give me the "dodge chassis only lasts 100k miles" bullshit, how do you think cummins engines get 1 million miles on them? they don't drive down the road by themselves.
that should say something about it, not to mention that pretty much anyone that's towed with a Cummins(light, medium or heavy truck) with a transmission capable of transferring the power(usually a manual but also a mildly built auto) absolutely loves the low rpm, broad, flat torque curve advantage that an inline engine has over a v-8. think the dodge autos are POS's go see what guys say about putting even a stock cummins in front of a ford auto.

I could do a 500 ft-lb 4 cylinder 4BT or a 900 ft-lb 5.9L 6BT for about the same price as getting a 'stroke to 600. and I wouldn't have to worry about the shady ford electronics, injectors, head gaskets, heads and connecting rods. We were actually looking into putting a mildly tuned 4BT in front of either an Allison 1000 or Aisin 6 speed auto but he decided he wanted to stay ford/lincoln on it.
BTW that combo would've gotten about 25-29mpg in that car and been faster than the 462 that's in it right now.

So the diesel thing has been considered and ruled out already due to wanting to keep it a gas ford/lincoln v-8. I'd much rather have an aftermarket built SBF than the Navishard diesel.


I'm looking for advise on small block fords, namely what aftermarket parts work well and what don't. the 5.0 is too small IMO, even stroked out. I'm now looking at either a 460BB or a 351W based platform, considering stroking the 351.