alternative engines, WARPED

[Todd....!!]

CL,

It takes a LOT of gear to get a behemoth like our b-body Mopars outa the
hole, 2.xx gears just doesn't cut it, as compared to 4.xx gears, no
comparison...

The torque of the Big Blocks still may feel strong even with the highway
gears but it's not as effective as when ya use quicker gears such as the
4.10's....

I drove my 70 Bee with the ol 383 and 4.10's with an automatic 727 from
Cheyenne, Wy to Houston, Texas back in June of 1989, got 15 mpg goin 50
mph most of the way... with 100+ mph jaunts about every 10 to 30 minutes
to clean er out... Windows were down the whole way, except for when it
rained in the hill country of Texas...  That trip was with an 800 spread
bore single feed dbl pmpr jetted pretty rich for Cheyenne's
altitude(Over 5,200 ft)....

And NO I didn't use ear plugs as I should've.... I was runnin dual
cherry bombs only, straight off the headers, and couldn't go to sleep
the night I arrived in Houston due to my ears ringing....

Have since acquired a LOt of single packs of those sponge roll up ear
plugs for passengers and myself on those long trip days...

Am about to install a set of 3 inch pipes with 3 inch 2 chambered flows,
they're in the trunk, I need to have the muffs welded back onto the
pipes, wonder how it'll sound, as compared to the current 2.5 inch pipes
with el cheapo turbo's...

Thanks fo rthe stories mang...

LATER!

Todd....!!




CLsnyder wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Todd....!! <atc347 at c-com.net>
> To: <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 3:17 PM
> Subject: Re: alternative engines, WARPED
> 
> > I hear ya Harold, makes sense to me...
> >
> > However I have a Dana 60 with the 4.10's and it takes a bit longer to
> > swap out the gears in that baby, it'd probably be quicker to swap ou
> > tthe entire rearend!?
> >
> > Good idea though.  My friend with another 70 Bee which DOES have a Dana
> > swapped his 4.10's out for some 3.23's and MAN does it HAUL on the
> > highway!
> 
> A friend has a '69 'Runner with the 383 Magnum, 2.7? gears and wide ratio
> box.  Good out of the hole with the steep low gears, and excellent mileage
> driving half sensibly in 4th. Pretty well bury the needle in third at
> redline.
> >