Do you guys get fomo?

[rusty ol ranger]

Basically this! I want to get a dolly to start off with. Maybe eventually get a trailer big enough to put a vehicle on.

With a dolly youll have zero issue with any vehicle behind a 300. Youll hit the dollys limit before you overtax the truck.

I towed my B2 3 hours home on a uhaul dolly behind my 2017 Grand Cherokee i had. It didnt even know it was there.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

With a dolly youll have zero issue with any vehicle behind a 300. Youll hit the dollys limit before you overtax the truck.

I towed my B2 3 hours home on a uhaul dolly behind my 2017 Grand Cherokee i had. It didnt even know it was there.

Between myself and dad, I have an adjustable tow bar, tow dolly, small trailer (6.5x11’), and a 14’ equipment trailer. I have used all of them behind my F-150 before at one time or another.

 

[Snoranger]

The 300 is pointless. The 351W can do everything the 300 can, with power to spare. If you’re lucky, you’ll get 1 MPG better mileage with a 300. But make sure you have time to spare.
The 302 is a good cruiser/light duty motor. It doesn’t have the same torque down low that you get with the 300 or 351W, but it can still tow a car on a trailer.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

The 300 is pointless. The 351W can do everything the 300 can, with power to spare. If you’re lucky, you’ll get 1 MPG better mileage with a 300. But make sure you have time to spare.
The 302 is a good cruiser/light duty motor. It doesn’t have the same torque down low that you get with the 300 or 351W, but it can still tow a car on a trailer.

The 300 is overall a better engine then the 351W though from a durabilty standpoint. Not that the 351 is bad by any means...but you can beat a 300 within an inch of its life and itll come back for more.

Plus general maintenece is eaiser on a 300,..espicially plugs/wires.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

The 300 is overall a better engine then the 351W though from a durabilty standpoint. Not that the 351 is bad by any means...but you can beat a 300 within an inch of its life and itll come back for more.

Plus general maintenece is eaiser on a 300,..espicially plugs/wires.

The best motor is a 300 with 351 heads cut up and spliced together to make a cross-flow head…

 

[rusty ol ranger]

The best motor is a 300 with 351 heads cut up and spliced together to make a cross-flow head…

Never seen that done.

Ive seen guys chop up LS heads on them.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Never seen that done.

Ive seen guys chop up LS heads on them.

That was done long before the LS even appeared. I want to say I heard something that it was an option or some special thing that was done back in the day to build performance engines for race applications. I intend to do some stuff like that when I rebuild my F-150

 

[SenorNoob]

As much as the Aussies love they're inline 6s, I wonder what if anything they've done with the 300?

 

[rusty ol ranger]

As much as the Aussies love they're inline 6s, I wonder what if anything they've done with the 300?

Did they ever get the 300 over there?

 

[SenorNoob]

Apparently not. They used the inline 6 but not the mighty 300. The Barra engine seems to be a cousin tho. Makes me wonder how compatible they are...

 

[Ranger850]

Makes me wonder how compatible they are...

From Wikededia
Ford Australia
The Australian Ford straight-six as seen in an XD series Ford Falcon, following adoption of a crossflow design in 1976, and an alloy cylinder head in 1980.
With local production of the Ford Falcon starting in 1960, Ford Australia began to offer the same inline-six engines as offered in North America. In Australia, the engine underwent significant updates to its design over the following decades, including a move to a crossflow layout, electronic ignition, alloy cylinder heads, fuel injection, overhead camshaft and later multi-valve double overhead camshaft design, variable intake runners, variable valve timing, and ultimately turbocharging. It remained in production for 56 years, retaining the same bore centres of the original 1960 Falcon engine throughout its evolution.[6]

 

[Rick W]

If you check if it’s legal to have a few projects sitting around on the side or the back of the house, and you can afford it, it might be worth doing just so you can piss off the city and or the HOA association.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

If you check if it’s legal to have a few projects sitting around on the side or the back of the house, and you can afford it, it might be worth doing just so you can piss off the city and or the HOA association.

A lot of places seem to be trying to push through laws like they tried here. They can come on your property to inspect and all non-legal vehicles have to be garage kept. Entirely unconstitutional. Thankfully we got them to delete those last night.

 

[Snoranger]

If you check if it’s legal to have a few projects sitting around on the side or the back of the house, and you can afford it, it might be worth doing just so you can piss off the city and or the HOA association.

A lot of places have rules about the number of inoperable or unlicensed vehicles you are allowed in your yard. The town I grew up in had a drag strip at the south end of town and a limit of 2 unregistered vehicles allowed on a single property at one time. They knew we had a high percentage of race fans in town and took that into consideration when making that ordinance.
The whole point in the rule was because some yards had 10+ broken cars and piles of trash everywhere. Yards like that are an eyesore, drag down property values, give vermin places to nest, etc. Would you want to live next to a rat factory?

 

[Rick W]

A lot of places have rules about the number of inoperable or unlicensed vehicles you are allowed in your yard. The town I grew up in had a drag strip at the south end of town and a limit of 2 unregistered vehicles allowed on a single property at one time. They knew we had a high percentage of race fans in town and took that into consideration when making that ordinance.
The whole point in the rule was because some yards had 10+ broken cars and piles of trash everywhere. Yards like that are an eyesore, drag down property values, give vermin places to nest, etc. Would you want to live next to a rat factory?

You’d have to ask my neighbor about that