# Skidplate's pile-o-shit Ranger. **URL:** \ **Category:** Builds\ **Created:** [April 14, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396 "2012-04-14T09:37:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/21 "2012-04-14T17:35:23Z")
Awesome build thread. Will legitimately be the coolest vehicle in your middle school’s parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![toomanycamaros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@toomanycamaros](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/toomanycamaros)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/22 "2012-04-14T18:10:59Z")
Good luck with the build do yourself a favor and don’t straight pipe it. ---
**Author:** ![KillerBlackbird](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/killerblackbird/32/6525_2.png) [@KillerBlackbird](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KillerBlackbird)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/23 "2012-04-14T21:29:46Z")
Props to :skid for having the balls to make this thread. Get some pics up so we can see this monster. ---
**Author:** ![88slowmarro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/88slowmarro/32/6339_2.png) [@88slowmarro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/88slowmarro)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/24 "2012-04-14T21:45:13Z")
![http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGgKBLIQVnWytGzwVTcs36GjuseMTA95KTfEZ4AgVvPx7vrpn0](http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGgKBLIQVnWytGzwVTcs36GjuseMTA95KTfEZ4AgVvPx7vrpn0) ![http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2_3QD3LHRaZskIkDUyxgvTAlh604D-81GwrgIrnxmRhlnQFAHjw](http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2_3QD3LHRaZskIkDUyxgvTAlh604D-81GwrgIrnxmRhlnQFAHjw) what one is his ??? ---
**Author:** ![KillerBlackbird](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/killerblackbird/32/6525_2.png) [@KillerBlackbird](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KillerBlackbird)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/25 "2012-04-14T22:12:26Z")
> [@Arnold Palmer](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/arnold-palmer/49158/24): > > ![http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGgKBLIQVnWytGzwVTcs36GjuseMTA95KTfEZ4AgVvPx7vrpn0](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/4/4/446bd4e1c543ee3b0e306fdfc3b3a3f43df3b45f.jpeg) > > what one is his ??? Holy shit you’re right, I forgot '92s were square body Rangers lol. ---
**Author:** ![sbardy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@sbardy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sbardy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/26 "2012-04-14T22:31:59Z")
Ranger club of America ---
**Author:** ![dc2nick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dc2nick/32/6289_2.png) [@dc2nick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dc2nick)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/27 "2012-04-15T05:38:39Z")
I miss my ranger. 92 ranger 2wd with a 5.0 swap and a 5 speed stick Looked just this only Blue… ![http://images.usedcheapcars.org/used-ford/1991-ford-ranger-pickup-4wd-ford-2-9l-6-cylinder-ffs-4-speed-automatic/1991-ford-ranger-xlt-ucc.jpg](http://images.usedcheapcars.org/used-ford/1991-ford-ranger-pickup-4wd-ford-2-9l-6-cylinder-ffs-4-speed-automatic/1991-ford-ranger-xlt-ucc.jpg) Glad to see someone else is building one of these ---
**Author:** ![PJB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pjb/32/6389_2.png) [@PJB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PJB)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/28 "2012-04-15T06:06:02Z")
I had an '87 with a 2.3 and automatic for my first vehicle. Big POS and it would barely do 65 on the highway. It was made out of Bondo. ---
**Author:** ![daknut93](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daknut93/32/6743_2.png) [@daknut93](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/daknut93)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/29 "2012-04-15T07:51:37Z")
skid do a 5.0 swap in it dont waist your time with a 3.0. what are you planning on using to lower it? ---
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/30 "2012-04-15T08:55:21Z")
> [@oh fawk... Tree \> audi](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oh-fawk-tree-audi/49163/31): > > skid do a 5.0 swap in it dont waist your time with a 3.0. what are you planning on using to lower it? Said he was going to cut the coils in the front and take out all the leafs in the rear. He’s bringing it to his fathers reputable auto body enhancing center to give it a supreme coat of fresh paint and to finish it off he’s gonna run set of Boyd coddington’s wrapped in toyo proxy tires! ---
**Author:** ![v8lonoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@v8lonoma](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/v8lonoma)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/31 "2012-04-15T09:17:20Z")
He’s to “special” for a 5.0 swap. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Eatonualive](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eatonualive/32/6442_2.png) [@Eatonualive](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Eatonualive)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/32 "2012-04-15T10:29:56Z")
this thread sucks ---
**Author:** ![v8lonoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@v8lonoma](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/v8lonoma)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/33 "2012-04-15T11:21:08Z")
> [@SoloIIscoob Lapping Dunnville](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soloiiscoob-lapping-dunnville/49267/21): > > Said he was going to cut the coils in the front and take out all the leafs in the rear. He’s bringing it to his fathers reputable auto body enhancing center to give it a supreme coat of fresh paint and to finish it off he’s gonna run set of Boyd coddington’s wrapped in toyo proxy tires! the thought of hacked susp. and boyds on the same vehicle makes me LOL. :skid ---
**Author:** ![JVG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jvg/32/6348_2.png) [@JVG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JVG)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/34 "2012-04-15T14:31:40Z")
> [@FS: XBOX360 Games](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-xbox360-games/48428/34): > > Don’t have any before pictures, actually this thing has been in-progress for a few years now and last week was the only few pictures of it that i have. apparently you don’t even have current pictures of this roach. Build threads are awesome with no pictures. Carry on. :skid ---
**Author:** ![v8lonoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@v8lonoma](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/v8lonoma)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/35 "2012-04-15T15:06:38Z")
Said Roach has been in progress for a few years and nothing has even been done yet!? ---
**Author:** ![Skidplate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skidplate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skidplate)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/36 "2012-04-15T18:35:57Z")
hooooly fuck I’m not gonna bother with responding to all of you. I will say on the suspension issues, I’m not going to do it the fucking retarded way with hacking up the springs. Drop I-beams (fuck you ford. these things are $600 a pair why couldn’t you just use McPherson or A-arms like everyone else?), and probably lowering blocks in the rear. if anyone has better (non-sarcastic) ideas for the rear i’d like to hear them. i have a set of aftermarket wheels and tires that are staying on, they’re not boyds, thank god. they are, however, some probably cheap, grey 5 spokes that were going to go on my stepbrothers eclipse before he died… still pissed at my dad for selling that car. It was a GSX that would’ve been alot less slow and ugly then this pile. i guess it was just too painful for him to have it sitting around. Back on topic, I’m not gonna V-8 it. it’d be huge waste of time and money, because it’ll never be fast. i figured out the problem with my phone and i’ll update the original post with a few shitty cell pictures in a little while. ---
**Author:** ![capitalcrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/37 "2012-04-15T21:28:26Z")
A v8 ranger could be fast. ---
**Author:** ![Murrdog9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/murrdog9000/32/6391_2.png) [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/38 "2012-04-15T21:34:46Z")
Would you consider doing a v12 swap? ---
**Author:** ![kramerbuccs24](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kramerbuccs24/32/6397_2.png) [@kramerbuccs24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kramerbuccs24)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/39 "2012-04-15T22:16:28Z")
> [@My new (old) 91 beretta](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-old-91-beretta/49177/8): > > Would you consider doing a v12 swap? shut up man no no one cares about you ---
**Author:** ![KillerBlackbird](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/killerblackbird/32/6525_2.png) [@KillerBlackbird](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KillerBlackbird)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396/40 "2012-04-15T22:32:30Z")
Blocks are probably the cheapest solution for the rear unless you flip the leafs which will probably be too low in comparison to the front. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/skidplates-pile-o-shit-ranger/263396.md?page=3)