You'd be surprised how a lightly hot rodded inline 6 in front of a 5.88 gear will terrorize a v8 car with a numerically lower gear...
Is it the being thrown into the bed upon stabbing the gas or the high RPM at highway speeds that bother you?I could get pretty serious about a 4.56 gear. 5.88 is crazy talk.
Is it the being thrown into the bed upon stabbing the gas or the high RPM at highway speeds that bother you?
That ain't too bad with modern tech. I run that all day long on a '78 Chevy truck with a 350 never been apart at 65-70mph. You have the benefit of OD as mine only has 3.73 and a TH400.I did the calculation. It'd be about 3 grand at 60mph.
Ford was smarter than GM with keeping a full size rear wheel drive platform.
IMO, FoMoCo really dropped the ball on what that car SHOULD'VE been. Way too low on HP and TQ to be any kind of "sporty car".
They certainly looked better than all the Grand Marquis and CV stablemates.
IMPD even owned a Maurader back then. Used to see it 2-3 times a week on my way to work.
All of this talk about gearing; we are working on a 63 Galaxie, 390 automatic and will be going to a 411 or 456 rear gear in it with a gear vendors overdrive in it. Best of both worlds!! I want to be able to drive it to Key West should we get the urge one morning.
A good friend used a gear vendor unit in one of his Fords. Had a butt load of problems with it.
Ok so if you had 200 bucks to spend on speed parts, what would you get? No nitrous. I'm talking rear end gears, or a cam, or mufflers or something along those lines. I'm leaning towards gears. I don't need it to be a daily driver, it's just a beater truck that sometimes hauls whatever my wife has to have from the antique store. It's '99 GMC Sierra stepside that's got a 5.3 swapped into it. It already has long tube headers and not much of an exhaust after that. Sounds decent. Suggestions? Comments? Critiques?
Is it the being thrown into the bed upon stabbing the gas or the high RPM at highway speeds that bother you?
$200 won't get you much: a programmer to bump timing, perhaps. Or some high flow mufflers. Gears, cam, etc are all going to be MUCH more. Figure a $600 on the low end up to a grand for gears +installation (specialized tools needed in many cases to do ring&pinion).
If you're going to go far enough into the engine to swap cams, I'd yank the engine and stroke it or swap to a 6000 long block.
If it's a beater truck, buy a high flow intake and be done. Avoid oiled gauze filters like K&N if you care about engine wear.
After I sold my Bus, I bought this '94. I didn't keep it long because it was a 5 speed and I just didn't fit well enough to be able to drive it confortably... We did quite a bit of work to it to make it look cool. Lowered, rallye wheels, radial TAs, painted the grille and bumpers and added a roll pan. Was a sweet little truck. 2.2l had 205k on the clock. Wish I wouldn't have sold this one either, would have made for a sweet v8 swap...
I love me a good s10. This was my brothers first vehicle. 1991. He bought it from the old couple across the street had like 30k miles on it. Never ever had rust. He wasn't the greatest driver and seemed to alway wreck it, not always his fault.... Everytime he did he would upgrade it. It got this paint job after it got caught in a hail storm and when they went to just paint the top of the truck the tape peeled off the paint, so he drew this design up. Was truly a cool truck, drove really nice. He had a friend hot rod the 4.3 in prepping for swapping on a Whipple turbo, that never happened as he couldn't locate all the pieces. He traded it to my dad for a jeep he had and I got to drive in my senior year for a couple months. Was sold not long after that and I wish I would have stopped that from happening.
After I sold my Bus, I bought this '94. I didn't keep it long because it was a 5 speed and I just didn't fit well enough to be able to drive it confortably... We did quite a bit of work to it to make it look cool. Lowered, rallye wheels, radial TAs, painted the grille and bumpers and added a roll pan. Was a sweet little truck. 2.2l had 205k on the clock. Wish I wouldn't have sold this one either, would have made for a sweet v8 swap...