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It was nice and stable feeling. Of course, that wasn't that heavy of a load.

If you're willing to spend some money and fly cut the pistons, 400 hp at the flywheel can be done with a good condition stock bottom end 302. Money goes in cam and heads. Buddy of mine and I recently did it with his '92 gt convertible. It made 333 hp at the tires on a not-optimistic dyno, and...

Man, it's a little embarrassing that I mistook an FE for a 385 series. What usually tips me off in no time is the exhaust ports of the FE.

460?

I just got a mustang with a 408 windsor and 12:1 compression. It has a pretty nice snarl. Don't think I'd want to drive it all day on the interstate though...

I hooked up my car trailer (around 2300 lbs empty) Saturday and went to buy a mustang. I'm guessing the mustang weighs about 3200 lbs or so. Truck did fine, and according to the lie-o-meter got 16.8 mpg pulling the trailer with the car, at about 65 mph. Air conditioning was on about half of...

Yet another reason why I'm glad I held out for a 101a...

Geez, that's lame. I guess if they don't know about the production limit they're bound to assume it was the market speaking.

That's true. However, it's not really what I was talking about. You said " Better yet just design a modern V8, nobody wants a 6 cylinder." People would probably buy more 5 liters in f150's if they could, but you certainly can't say nobody wants an ecoboost 2.7, 3.5, or 3.5 hybrid. There are...

I dunno, ford has a few 6 cylinders that seem to do ok...

They're probably detuned somewhat to account for the fact that marine service can be very taxing, constant high load for hours at a time. That's my guess as to why they often aren't rated very high on the hp scale.

The lemon law firm I'm using will be filing suit against FCA on mine this week.

We must have good 87 octane 10% ethanol gas here. I use it exclusively in my 4 cycle small engines and have never had the slightest problem with it. I leave gas in things over the winter and put some stabil fuel stabilizer in. Never any trouble running the next spring.

Well, judging by the number of turbo 6's that have apparently-incurable misfires, it offers SOMETHING over the 6 cylinder besides exhaust sound. Getting you from one place to another is one of them.

That is not correct. ALL wheel drive vehicles are not covered but FOUR WHEEL DRIVE vehicles are. There is a fine technical distinction between 4wd and all wheel drive, and Whipple considers that distinction. I know-I called them myself and asked them exactly that question for the same reason...

Constant misfires, would stall out coming to a stop. I have no idea why they're fighting it, if they are in fact fighting. As far as I know, beyond acknowledging that they've received notification that I want them to buy the truck back, they've simply been non responsive.

There is a tradeoff; staying in a higher gear means running at lower rpm, which reduces friction. It also sometimes means more boost, which uses more fuel at that same rpm than less or no boost at that rpm. So, you have two opposing things fighting each other. If you find that raising boost...

There's a considerable chance simply replacing the batteries will entirely fix the trouble. Several people on here have told you that, and if you search there are countless threads on this forum of battery replacement fixing all manner of weird problems. If you do and it fixes the trouble...

Livhting the cats back off as fast as it can.

Today, my truck was at about 165 or so degrees coolant temp, with oil temp about that or higher from an earlier drive. I started it to go to lunch and it idled high. Not 1500 rpm high, but obviously higher than normal hot idle. It occurred to me that a bunch of this is probably to light the...