This is my truck, a seemingly innocent, tired Ford Ranger XLT.

Nothing fancy, just a rusty old beater. No indiglo gauges, no billett rims, no stickers. Stereo is a mild Pioneer deck with JBL 6.5's in front and the stock pieces in back. Exhaust is fed throuh a cherry bomb and then a magnaflow SS muffler, then dumped. Not loud, not showy, but very free flowing. Under all that wimpiness lies something that no one would ever see coming, something much more respectable than the 90 horsepower powerplant that it replaced...

As you can see, I didn't put a whole lot into appearance. In fact, it looks even worse now since a small fire ruined the paint. But what you're looking at is a completely rebuilt 2.3L turbocharged 4 cylinder from a Merkur XR4Ti. As it sits, I would expect to see close to 200HP on a dyno (flywheel HP). The truck will do 0-60 in less than 6 seconds, and still gets about 23 miles per gallon. Perfect college cruiser for someone like me. I'll add more later...