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- 1988
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- FORD mostly
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sweet. glad its solid.
mpg is a either or. your engine isnt ideal. your compression...not horrible... but not ideal. this engine was seriously abused.
my e350 naked with no roof racks or tools/ladders would get 21-23 steady hiway 65 mph easily on good fuel..
80 mph 16-18 355 gears 235/85/16...e4od. just a beast. could run 14's in the 1/4 empty. for a 1995....i just could not have been happier.
city traffic loaded down for roofing it was 12-16 which is ridiculously awesome.
i would try it stock for a baseline if it will run ok with the mods. just drive it normal...dont try to eek out every mpg... after two or three tanks of your routine driving it will be what it be... then you can tweek from there.
towing...while its supposedly the weakest of its generation....you could never give me a gasser from that era to do the work i do. it absolutely destroys the big blocks....i would just blow by them getting more then double the mpg...its comparable to the godzilla i am driving now....well in power. mpg forget about it. this godzilla has twice the hp....but towing 10 k its not any better on a grade. but at 14k weight the godzilla starts to have the advantage like up on slade or running 470... but my powerstroke never got down to 2 mpg either.....
manually closing the EPV and locking the converter is like a poor mans exhaust brake..... might have been why i was eating converters. lolz
mpg is a either or. your engine isnt ideal. your compression...not horrible... but not ideal. this engine was seriously abused.
my e350 naked with no roof racks or tools/ladders would get 21-23 steady hiway 65 mph easily on good fuel..
80 mph 16-18 355 gears 235/85/16...e4od. just a beast. could run 14's in the 1/4 empty. for a 1995....i just could not have been happier.
city traffic loaded down for roofing it was 12-16 which is ridiculously awesome.
i would try it stock for a baseline if it will run ok with the mods. just drive it normal...dont try to eek out every mpg... after two or three tanks of your routine driving it will be what it be... then you can tweek from there.
towing...while its supposedly the weakest of its generation....you could never give me a gasser from that era to do the work i do. it absolutely destroys the big blocks....i would just blow by them getting more then double the mpg...its comparable to the godzilla i am driving now....well in power. mpg forget about it. this godzilla has twice the hp....but towing 10 k its not any better on a grade. but at 14k weight the godzilla starts to have the advantage like up on slade or running 470... but my powerstroke never got down to 2 mpg either.....
manually closing the EPV and locking the converter is like a poor mans exhaust brake..... might have been why i was eating converters. lolz
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