alternative engines, WARPED

CLsnyder claresnyder at home.com
Thu May 13 22:41:50 GMT 1999


----- Original Message -----
From: Todd....!! <atc347 at c-com.net>
To: <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: alternative engines, WARPED


> 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...
What is your low gear ratio? With a close ratio box you need 4+ gearing -
with the wide ratio box and the long gears you get the same overall ratio
(within a few points) - you just need a bit wider power band because you
have to wind it a bit tighter before shifting or you can bog it out.
>
> 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....

Again, it is overall ratio that counts - don't matter a hill of beans where
the gearing is done, and a big block has a nice fat power curve so it pulls
strong in second without floating the valves in low.
>
> 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....!!
>
If you want sweet ya gotta drive a 264 flatty with a short Thrush from
Waterloo Ontario to Tulsa Oklahoma in August. The big six barks real nice -
about 28MPG  in an air conditioned '57 half ton. Pulling away from a stop in
second was no problem either.

The trip from Waterloo to Murray Harbour PEI in the 53 Hemi Coronet Sierra
(373 gears and overdrive) made 18 hours of fantastic music as well at about
the same mileage. Both were quiet enough to get by the coppers without any
trouble, yet healthy sounding enough to be "cool". The 264 P'up was a bear
in the rain or hot weather, pulling away without squeaking the tires took
some practice, or second gear. The guy who has it now has a 340 AAR in it
and about 48" of rubber under the bed.
>
>
> 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.
> > >
>
>
>




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