final results are in!

[Ivan D.]

two trips a week apart, total of about 120 freeway miles spinning at constant 2000 rpms (around 50-55mph), about 20 miles of mild city driving with traffic lights and all, and several miles of running down a fox-body Mustang at over 100mph - all that took a little under 8 gallons of gas, so that officially puts my truck in the 18+mpg cruisers. And low and behold that's with a double-pumper Holley, and rolling on 1ft-wide bigass tires. Best of all, when chasing that Stang I didn't even have to put the pedal to the metal, maybe just 3/4 down, maybe even less... Yep, I love my rusty old Chevy

[knightlife]

wewt! just goes to show that those tampons cant compete with our badass boxies!

[Ivan D.]

Originally Posted by knightlife

wewt! just goes to show that those tampons cant compete with our badass boxies!

haha, he could have lost me in a heartbeat, stock Mustangs top out at like 140mph, but I think he was way too shocked for that when he realized the old farm truck he just passed is now up on his bumper and keeping up well

[Joe67]

Hey Ivan, where in the Detroit are are you from?

[85_SWB]

What tranny and gears are you running?

[Srubydo1986]

ill have to do the numbers on mine cuss i barly go to the gas station

[Ivan D.]

Originally Posted by Joe67

Hey Ivan, where in the Detroit are are you from?

Hey Joe, I ain't in Detroit per say, but still rather close - I live like half a mile southeast from the intersection of 696, M-10, and Telegraph Rd.

[Ivan D.]

Originally Posted by 85_SWB

What tranny and gears are you running?

TH350 tranny, gears are stock 3.08 I think, rear tires are 33x12.5x15 fatties.

[Ivan D.]

Originally Posted by Srubydo1986

ill have to do the numbers on mine cuss i barly go to the gas station

I see yer sig, I'm pretty sure mine will pull about 20mpg on a level road (I-96 ain't level by no means, lotsa hills), I may downsize the front jets a little to see how that works - I shouldn't run lean cause my secondaries don't close all the way so they actually work towards the idle and cruise rpms too.

[82c10]

Originally Posted by knightlife

wewt! just goes to show that those tampons cant compete with our badass boxies!

i'm guessing it may have been a 4-cylinder, and if you ever drove a fox-body, you would most likely want to get rid of the truck, and i believe Ivan knows what a 5.0 can do

[krue]

I've owned a rustang, and I'm not proud of it, but I'll never own another, I'd rather have my truck.

[Prerunner1982]

My 82 c10 with th350, 3.08s and 32"s got about that on the highway, but with a head wind or in the city the mpg would drop dramatically. That combo of gears/tires are not condusive to torque. Once upto speed it was about the same as an overdrive, but getting up to speed was the hard part.

[revn67]

i've owned a camaro, mustang, and now my c-10....i never lost to mustang in my camaro and my truck is in the middle of a build so i'll see what that can do against it...as for a mustang, anyone can make a stang fast, all ya gotta do is bolt on a procharger or a vortec and think your the ****...stangs are gay! just my 2 cents

[82c10]

Originally Posted by revn67

i've owned a camaro, mustang, and now my c-10....i never lost to mustang in my camaro and my truck is in the middle of a build so i'll see what that can do against it...as for a mustang, anyone can make a stang fast, all ya gotta do is bolt on a procharger or a vortec and think your the ****...stangs are gay! just my 2 cents

you owned a lumina, you are gay

[82c10]

Originally Posted by revn67

i've owned a camaro, mustang, and now my c-10....i never lost to mustang in my camaro and my truck is in the middle of a build so i'll see what that can do against it...as for a mustang, anyone can make a stang fast, all ya gotta do is bolt on a procharger or a vortec and think your the ****...stangs are gay! just my 2 cents

i have also owned a camaro, 4 mustangs, a c10 and a c1500, out of all of them, mustangs are the best, your truck won't have nothing on a stock 5.0

[Pyrotechnic]

3.08 gears are king on the highway with a Turbo 350/400.

In my opinion though, a stock 350 has a little trouble pushing them in situations where you can't keep your revs up, like slow moving city traffic. If I can gas it from the start and rev through the gears, it's fine and I'm accelerating very quickly, but if I get stuck behind a slow moving line of cars then try to work my way up to crusing speed it tends to be a little doggy and the transmission feels like it needs to downshift and it will if I give it enough gas. Of course this is compared to prior experience with 3.42's in the same truck. It was always in the powerband and only need to downshift if I really gassed it. I'll have to try holding it in 2nd gear while in traffic and shift into 3rd once I hit 45-50 MPH.

Can't complain about my highway cruising RPM's though.

[xtreme80]

Originally Posted by Pyrotechnic

3.08 gears are king on the highway with a Turbo 350/400.

In my opinion though, a stock 350 has a little trouble pushing them in situations where you can't keep your revs up, like slow moving city traffic. If I can gas it from the start and rev through the gears, it's fine and I'm accelerating very quickly, but if I get stuck behind a slow moving line of cars then try to work my way up to crusing speed it tends to be a little doggy and the transmission feels like it needs to downshift and it will if I give it enough gas. Of course this is compared to prior experience with 3.42's in the same truck. It was always in the powerband and only need to downshift if I really gassed it. I'll have to try holding it in 2nd gear while in traffic and shift into 3rd once I hit 45-50 MPH.

Can't complain about my highway cruising RPM's though.

I know the feeling completely. I got a TH350 with 2.73 gears, and on the highway it's nice, but anywhere in town and I just lack so much potential power. I can't wait for the new rear end, which should be in soon. 3.73's!

[Ivan D.]

Originally Posted by 82c10

i'm guessing it may have been a 4-cylinder, and if you ever drove a fox-body, you would most likely want to get rid of the truck, and i believe Ivan knows what a 5.0 can do

it was a V8 stang, and yes do I know what a 5.0 can do - only reason I kept up with this guy was cause he wasn't getting too into it, and I took him by surprise when accelerating, I'm sure if my truck was as tricked out as most of the low-riders here he'd be quicker with the gas pedal

[Ivan D.]

Originally Posted by revn67

i've owned a camaro, mustang, and now my c-10....i never lost to mustang in my camaro and my truck is in the middle of a build so i'll see what that can do against it...as for a mustang, anyone can make a stang fast, all ya gotta do is bolt on a procharger or a vortec and think your the ****...stangs are gay! just my 2 cents

Actually it's the 305 Camaros that suck hardcore, the stock 5.0HO when installed in such a light-weight car as the fox-body Mustang it really makes it move. Camaros on the other hand... can't count the times I've wasted a 305-equipped one with my redneck race limo, dunno what's up with them but they never seem to run quite right - a 350 does wake them up real good tho Then again there's the 351 Windsor for the Mustangs... It really seems to be one of these religious arguments at that point, it's all up to a personal preference.

[Ivan D.]

Prerunner and Pyrotechnic, you know that may be a little weird, but I never really felt underpowered with these gears, when running ported vac advance engine was a little slow off the line till it hit 1200rpms, but now with the manifold vacuum it pulls real hard, as a matter of fact most of the time around town I end up turning at right about 1200-1500rpms, like a diesel truck I do have an RV towing cam tho, and an intake that's supposed to build up gobs of torque down low.

[slugish]

Originally Posted by xtreme80

I know the feeling completely. I got a TH350 with 2.73 gears, and on the highway it's nice, but anywhere in town and I just lack so much potential power. I can't wait for the new rear end, which should be in soon. 3.73's!

hope you have 4 speed or 700 4r . Had 3.73 in my 84 with a turbo 350 3 speed. Feel like youre running in 2nd gear all th e time waiting for it to change from gas station to gas station.
put a 3 .08 in. miss a little off the line but overall a good comprimise. Need 4 gears for a 3.73 & higher if you do any cruising 55- 65 at all