351w power?

**Knox88** · 05-15-2013, 06:11 AM

Well I bought this 88 f150 a couple months ago. I thought in my head a 351 gotta have power. Well no it dosnt at the moment. Is there any cheap easy ways to get more power, torque anything out of this truck

**Big Blue Boy** · 05-15-2013, 08:45 AM

What trans do you have in it? Auto or manual?

**5.0Flareside** · 05-15-2013, 10:51 AM

Tune it up..

What do you mean it has no power though??

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**Knox88** · 05-15-2013, 05:59 PM

Auto trans. Just put a tune up on it. No power as in wont spin a tire, has trouble pulling a trailer. Just not the power I expected from a 351. I've got an 86 f150 with the 300i 4.9 in it an it will out do the 88 anyday

**5.0Flareside** · 05-15-2013, 06:03 PM

Check your fuel pressure.. What gear does it have? Check your basics..

Also how many miles are on it?

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**lee reece** · 05-15-2013, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Knox88

Auto trans. Just put a tune up on it. No power as in wont spin a tire, has trouble pulling a trailer. Just not the power I expected from a 351. I've got an 86 f150 with the 300i 4.9 in it an it will out do the 88 anyday

Man if you done all that then I would check the converter on exhaust to see if its plugging up! Sounds like a good candidate to me! Let us no if this helped. If it is this would cause lack of power at the wheels!

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**joshpickworth** · 05-16-2013, 07:05 AM

What 351 is it, modified, Cleveland or the Windsor??? from what I've been told the Cleveland is a good small block, Windsor is the good big block and the modified was gutless and not well designed!!!

**5.0Flareside** · 05-16-2013, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by joshpickworth

What 351 is it, modified, Cleveland or the Windsor??? from what I've been told the Cleveland is a good small block, Windsor is the good big block and the modified was gutless and not well designed!!!

Are you kidding me??? Please stop..

After 81 the only 351 cubic inch available is a Windsor.

Cleveland's were never in trucks and stopped production in the US in 1974..

And the 351M doesn't stand for Modified.. It stands for........ Nothing at all.. It's just to set it apart..

Ford doesn't use small block big block notations.. But people often group them that way anyways..

The Windsor would be a small block..

The Cleveland would tech be small block cause it shares the same bell housing pattern as a Windsor. But nothing else.

The 351m/400 are taller versions of the 351C but have a 429/460 bell housing.. So they're a bastard child..

The 351M can make tons of power.. Just stock form was so smogged and poorly setup for emissions it never will in stock form..

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**joshpickworth** · 05-16-2013, 07:17 AM

Hey I didn't know!!! I was born in ninety one so I'm clueless about those motors, my dad and his buddy always talk bout them but never said all that!

**5.0Flareside** · 05-16-2013, 07:19 AM

Originally Posted by joshpickworth

Hey I didn't know!!! I was born in ninety one so I'm clueless about those motors, my dad and his buddy always talk bout them but never said all that!

I was born in 91 also.. I'm not trying to be an ass.. This is why it pays to read read read read and read..

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