Deviating a bit from my unorthodox viewpoint...and being an idiot as usual
I went and turned plumb crazy and put NON STOCK LOOKING PARTS ON!!!!! :eek::eek::eek: 
I suppose every man has his price, and Sick88TBird sold me this full explorer intake, which naturally will be better than just porting the lower as I intended, and probably would have spent the same doing only that piece. And the wrinkle black paint he put on it looks really cool to me, and I think it works in there pretty good. Not to mention rather.....factory looking now that I have one and look at it in person. :D hehe.
Thanks to DVP, i'll have a matching 65mm throttle body soon, something I totally forgot about. Thanks though Vin, for pointng those other finds out to me. That was pretty much my next plan of attack, amazingly 7 different yards around here have absolutely zero 5.0 Explorers. Oh well.
Also...finally got to the test and tune this past wednesday. And ran a 15 flat at 91 mph. Was a *little* disappointed there, but this thing is 3700 lbs with me and 5 gallons of fuel. However...I decided to check the timing before I went, and Ive noticed the last few days its been very sluggish and hesitating badly around 3 grand. Occured to me today that I may not have bolted down the hold-down right. :wtf: Uh.....ladies and gents...theres a shockingly large difference in performance between 2 degrees retard and 16 degrees advance. So needless to say Im curious as to what it will run with that correct and with the throttle body. If only dad were still alive to smack me upside the head when I do dumb like that. LOL :hick:
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