{"id":36899,"date":"2019-03-07T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=36899"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:37:24","slug":"ford-ranger-with-a-supercharged-lsa-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=36899","title":{"rendered":"Ford Ranger with a Supercharged LSA V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gardner Mods<\/a> wanted to convert their Ford Ranger into a drift machine so they sent it to Kay’s Fabrication<\/a> in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia. There the company installed a supercharged 6.2 L LSA V8, TR6060 six-speed manual transmission, and 4-link rear suspension over the Ford 9-inch rear end. They also installed a fuel cell, increased the steering angle, lowered the body, c-notched the frame, and fabricated a roll cage. <\/p>\n

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Source: Gardner Mods FB page<\/a> and Kay’s Fabrication FB page<\/a> via Piotr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gardner Mods wanted to convert their Ford Ranger into a drift machine so they sent it to Kay’s Fabrication in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia. There the company installed a supercharged 6.2 L LSA V8, TR6060 six-speed manual transmission, and 4-link rear suspension over the Ford 9-inch rear end. They also installed a fuel cell, increased… Read More »Ford Ranger with a Supercharged LSA V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ranger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ford-Ranger-with-a-supercharged-LSA-V8-01.jpg?fit=1944%2C1296&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38090,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=38090","url_meta":{"origin":36899,"position":0},"title":"Ford Ranger with a Supercharged LSA V8 Update","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this month we shared the Ford Ranger being built to drift by Gardner Mods in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia. 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