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Oct 9, 2007 | 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Josiah

yeah I'm curious as well. As for 4.88's, I've ridden in Brian's F-150 with 4.88's, supercharged, and 31's at the time. He didn't have any complaints at the time, he liked the gear ratio. But you have to realize it can make or break the truck, you won't want to drive it much at all if the rpm's are always a concern.

Yeah, I hear you. Even makes me cringe when I'm doing about 2,300 rpms in a v8 doing 55 mph... as what my Dakota outputs with the 3.92's, but the final O/D ratio is 0.73 compared to my F150's which is 0.79 in O/D.

I think personally... I should just stick to what I've got; the 4.10s. I think I would be happier if I just started laying my cards right and getting more out of the engine, instead of screwing around with the stock garbage. The only means of going about that is FI to squeeze any more out of that 4.2l.

Well then... case closed.