Which engine for towing?

[Will]

A 460 made 395ft#. A 300 made 265ft#. A 300 needs 5.29 gears to have the same max torque as a 460 with 3.55s. But because of that, it doesn't have much revs to play with and will never keep up.

Yeah, gears do help. Well, lots of closely spaced gears help. Unfortunately the 300-6 and the 460 come with the same transmissions. Even though the peak will look the same with those gears, the effect of them is that the 300-6 will have a very sharply pointed torque curve with respect to the rear wheels and the 460 will have a long, flat one with lots of room to accelerate in each gear.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

But getting the load rolling is the hardest part. Once its rolling Keeping it going is easy.

But yeah i know what you mean, obviously a 460 will spank a 300 with a load, or empty. 160 Cubic inches and 2 more cylinders will do that.

Take a shopping cart, pile it full of say, 12 packs of pepsi, and comprehend the amount of effort it takes to get it rolling from a dead stop, then comprehend the amount of effort it takes to make it acclerate once its already rolling. Thats exactly the same thing that your truck goes through.

But either way we're dealing with a 2000lb boat here, and Rangers. 2000 lbs would be nothing for either a 300 or a 460. Any of the Ranger V6's (well, the 3.0 might not get along with it on steep ramps, but it would do it with good gears) should handle it no problem.

later,
Dustin

 

[rusty ol ranger]

..............and for what its worth, the 300 does have the 460 beat in one aspect...the 300 makes .88torque per CI, the 460 makes .83....

Just thought id toss that in there....so if you were to give the 300 the 160 more cubes it would need to compete with the 460 it would be making 405 ftlbs of torque.

So if you wanna get technical, the 300, CI for CI is stronger then the 460

later,
Dustin

 

[Dusty_Ranger]

preferably a v6