z'ed frame on a 2000 ranger

jevon

Yeah, nice work Jevon. Mine is more like a shitty canadian roads daily dragger.
What is stock on your frame? Make me want to go SFBD for the cab section.

from the fire wall forward,everything else is 2x3.

Yep. And of coarse the front of the frame is z'd for the core support and I also frenched in the front bag cups and shaved the factory weld seams on the front clip. All the control arms are tubular and I also notched out for the steering rods.

What kind of rearend setup would you guys recommend for 5.0 applications coupled to an aod (pulling out mayby 275 hp)

I don't know what rearend specifically you should use, but as far as setup, a triangulated or parallel four link should work fine.