First off...nice screenname! Mine comes from my liscense plate on my '90 LX.

I have not towed a boat with my L, so I cannot tell you about trying to maneuver on a wet boat ramp. That might be a problem with performance tires and this much torque...even off-idle. ???

But, I have towed a 3300lb car with a 1200+lb trailer. With a load-leveling hitch I didn't even know the car was back there. 70-75mph on the interstate, and got 10mpg. The trans didn't overheat, it didn't downshift in and out of OD at all.

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Wes Tarbox
90 LX 5.0 (10.69 @ 134.7)--597rwhp/590rwtq
98 Saleen S351 #15--443rwhp/452rwtq
99 Lightning (13.20 @ 103.8)--364rwhp/447rwtq
00 Expedition XLT 5.4
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When I tow a large trailer, I like to turn off the OD at least on any hint of climbing a hill. I run a large vac/boost gauge and find that the L will instantly go to about 4 lbs of boost in OD but remains on the vaccum side in third. All this at 65 mph about a 3000 lb trailer with a 2400 lb car on it (the other race car, the one below weighs 800 ).

Hope this helps


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Andy Whittle
White 2000
#2482 of 4966
Built 4/27/00

My Autocross car

 

You should have no problems towing it unless your truck is lowered. Getting the boat up the ramp has never been a problem either. I have airbags in the rear of mine and love them. One last thing,Congrats on the new Malibu, I almost traded my Sanger V210 in on a Wakesetter VLX last year. Sweet boat!!

Jeff

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