'94 F-150 300 straight 6
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01-11-2008, 02:08 PM
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01-11-2008, 09:38 PM
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01-11-2008, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by AlfredB18
Noooo.
No engine loves to lug. If anything can take it, it'd be something like the Cat diesel in the F650s or something like that. Peak powerband, FTW.
Granted the 4.9L doesn't exactly rev all that well, or at least it doesn't seem to do all that much when it does rev, but that can be attributed to that 8.5ish compression ratio and lousy head/intake manifold flow. It's a bas engine design from the automotive smog era/stone age, so I'm not expecting much from it.
I almost guarantee that OP gets better MPGs with 3.55s or 3.73s. Get the engine up to peak revs quickly and slap it into 5th ASAP.
Then again, I touch ~20 MPGs with a 4.2L v6, so I wouldn't complain about that on a 300 cube monster myself...
No engine loves to lug. If anything can take it, it'd be something like the Cat diesel in the F650s or something like that. Peak powerband, FTW.
Granted the 4.9L doesn't exactly rev all that well, or at least it doesn't seem to do all that much when it does rev, but that can be attributed to that 8.5ish compression ratio and lousy head/intake manifold flow. It's a bas engine design from the automotive smog era/stone age, so I'm not expecting much from it.
I almost guarantee that OP gets better MPGs with 3.55s or 3.73s. Get the engine up to peak revs quickly and slap it into 5th ASAP.
Then again, I touch ~20 MPGs with a 4.2L v6, so I wouldn't complain about that on a 300 cube monster myself...
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01-12-2008, 12:47 AM
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Well, I paid a little extra for the truck.
Actually was the second truck I ever looked at
but there's a certain way It drives so that I like it.
Not sure what it is but it drives similar to the '71 I managed to weasel into the yard(13 miles to the gallon with a 351, not sure of the gear ratio but it puts my '94 to shame
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Actually was the second truck I ever looked at
but there's a certain way It drives so that I like it.Not sure what it is but it drives similar to the '71 I managed to weasel into the yard(13 miles to the gallon with a 351, not sure of the gear ratio but it puts my '94 to shame
)
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