Pure speculation here. I think that anyone who says a tinkernational 392 has more pulling power than a good 454 hasn't ever driven a 454. And mileage? A 454 truck will average 6-7 pulling or not. I know folks with tinkenationals.....travelalls and scouts.......none of them get better than 8-9 empty.
Mike -----Original Message----- Date: Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:12:13 am To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> From: Loren Faeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Carfax/ 454 milage A 454 is like holding a 5 gallon can over the engine, and drill a 5/16 hole in the bottom. in short, they s uck. and they are gutless. My favorite story is in 1979, we had just put a 392 (IH) 4 barrel in the old IH 1500. It had well over 300,000 miles on it at the time. We were overloaded, way overloaded, going uphill, closing fast on a chevy pickup pulling an empty stock trailer. He got in the creeper lane, and as we passed, i could see the 454 on the side of the truck, and it sounded like it was grunting to uphill empty. I nailed the 392, opened up the back two barrels and the truck stood up on the ringgear and we accelerated uphill and left the gas sucking 454 in the dust. Those who have ridden an Earles fork BMW will understand "standing up on the ring gear." I loved that effect! And we probably went twice as far on a gallon of gas! The load was at least 5 tons. At 06:30 AM 11/5/2008, you wrote: > > > > Message: 10 > > Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:45:43 -0600 > > F _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
