starting from scratch?

[ITUKMOR]

I am currently building my truck from the ground up. I have a 86 svo engine with t5 trans, mild esslinger cam, stock bottom end ect.. looking for around 300hp. Now I am wondering what would be the best set up without killing the bank to wire up the truck. Keep in mind that the truck is completely stripped right now and I hate vam meters

[smashed96gt]

Some more info about the truck is needed. Such as year, what engine and trans it has now or was originally equipped with etc.

[AJ_Fritz]

its stripped so anything is possible.

a valid question is can you tune? if no do you want to learn?

[Lowranger96]

I'd say a megasquirt or something along those lines. If u wanted to put the internals in a 95+ block I'd say do obd2 swap

[ITUKMOR]

i am not a good turner but I used to do fab work at a dyno shop and the owner would hook me up. The truck is an 88 ranger with a full tube chassis, yota ifs, bodydropped on 20" wheels. Shorted 8.8 ls rear with disk brake conversion 4 link.. all that good stuff

[TIMMA]

Do you have a wiring harness to start with? I would probably go with MegaSquirt. It's the only tuning I've done so far and it wasn't too bad to learn on. If you went with a later Ford MAF system, you have to buy a lot of expensive parts (flasher, software, MAF). MegaSquirt isn't that much money.

[jareeb]

i plan on using ms so there will be some people here so we all can learn together