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You are right the Terminator's last production year was 2004, but the Cobra engine continued production in the Lincoln Aviator. I plan on buying an Aviator and taking engine and transmission for my truck. If the interior is in good condition I will use it in my daughter's Explorer.
 

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Actually the last cobra motor in the terminators produced 390hp the ones in the aviators only pushed 302 hp big and 300 ftlbs and last used in 2005 the last year of the aviators . I’d rather keep the 5.4 though it has only 260 hp it still make 50ft-lbs more of torque and with the weight of the expeditions id rather have the torque.
 
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How bout the 5.4 with a supercharger? One of our members loves his with 380 hp. That way you got plenty of gitty up! That would be a SUV I'd want my dad to pass along to me.

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You are right the Terminator's last production year was 2004, but the Cobra engine continued production in the Lincoln Aviator. I plan on buying an Aviator and taking engine and transmission for my truck. If the interior is in good condition I will use it in my daughter's Explorer.
here's how wiki describes the 5R55E tranny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Aviator
The Ford C3 transmission and its descendants are a family of light-duty longitudinal automatic transmissions built by the Ford Motor Company.
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390 horsepower, and matching 390 torque, pretty nice. Problem is it's a high rpm engine that was put in a 3300 pound car. It might not be quite as lively in a 5800 pound sheet metal hippopotamus, like we drive. What would be sweet is supercharge or turbo that motor with low boost. That loss of low rpm would come back in spades. That mouse could scare the Elephant! I'd just reread the specs, the 390 ft lbs of torque come on at 3500 rpm, almost half the horsepower rpm. Pretty impressive. Bore it .060 over, stroker rods and you got a fun SUV to haul the kids in.

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That is not a bad idea. If I was to go with a Cobra engine I would have to find a place for my battery since the intake on the Cobra engine goes to the left of the engine vs straight forward and to the right on the truck's original 4.6 or 5.4. The one thing IO would definitely have to upgrade when changing to a 5.4 will be sleeves for the spark plugs. I still think that boring the 4.6 Cobra to accept bigger pistons and will also be a viable alternative. I like the idea of a forge crankshaft and piston rods that are way beefier than what I currently have.
 

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^lol!

With all the different lines going everywhere, and looking at it on my phone, the horrible photoshop job wasn’t obvious at first.
 

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Mount the battery in the rear, no biggie. Stereo guys do that all the time. You'll have to do your homework on bigger cylinder sleeves if that's the route you want to go. I'd find out who makes stroker rods, and go with the beefiest ones out there. And go with a .030 overbore. That's usually a safe bet. Chevy does that with their small blocks all the way from 350 to 406ci. Can't see why you can't get at least to 5.1 ci safely. The options are endless with how far you can go. Keep in mind though that for every horsepower you go up, reliability will go down. It's just one of those tradeoffs, that's been going on since our grandfather's started souping up 32 Ford flatheads!

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