skull
''SARCASM: just one of his many talents.''
with fuel prices going nuts and oil prices doing the "who knows high it'll go" thing, is it changing how your'e projects/ build/redo/ plans for your'e rod/rods?
for me it started in 1999 when l was still working for the BN RR. having to drive 300-700 miles a week or more [ya, a WEEK] my 1965 chevelle wagon was built with a stock 350 chevy, headers, low restriction mufflers, 2 1 /2" exhaust, aluminum intake, small holley econono master 550cfm,
2OOR4, 3:08 gears and 26" tall tires, she pulled 22 mpg.
since then all my builds get OD and fairly stock motors. the excption to the rule is the 1933 plymouth with a 385hp ZZ4 motor and 3:50 gears and a 7OOr4,, she is a fair weather car only so l figure 15 mpg [max] on this car won't be all that bad.
my other 3 builds get mild 350's and OD's with tall gears.
18-26 is mpg is the goal for all 3 of the other hot rods.
Later
for me it started in 1999 when l was still working for the BN RR. having to drive 300-700 miles a week or more [ya, a WEEK] my 1965 chevelle wagon was built with a stock 350 chevy, headers, low restriction mufflers, 2 1 /2" exhaust, aluminum intake, small holley econono master 550cfm,
2OOR4, 3:08 gears and 26" tall tires, she pulled 22 mpg.
since then all my builds get OD and fairly stock motors. the excption to the rule is the 1933 plymouth with a 385hp ZZ4 motor and 3:50 gears and a 7OOr4,, she is a fair weather car only so l figure 15 mpg [max] on this car won't be all that bad.
my other 3 builds get mild 350's and OD's with tall gears.
18-26 is mpg is the goal for all 3 of the other hot rods.
Later
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