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echo: oldcars
to: LANDON ROBINSON
from: SEAN DUNBAR
date: 1998-01-17 03:06:00
subject: Re: gas tanks

 SD> 60-65. I tend to do about 75-80 on the highway, dropping
 SD> it to 200 miles.
 LR> I don't push mine that high. Around here you can't
 LR> anyway... too many hills and curves. That's the pacific
That little 351 wound up pretty good when I lived in El Paso.. managed to get 
it up to about 70 going up some STEEP hills (floored).  One day I couldn't 
get 
past 45 though.. floored.. in second gear.  You gotta love windy days (so 
windy that when I opened the hood to check the oil, the wind grabbing the 
hood 
lifted me AND the hood!)
Around here there's no hills.  Bah.
 LR> something like that. Anyway as I was saying I don't push it
 LR> that high the 460 has 113k and tops out around 105mph and
 LR> is fairly close to redline right there. Although 460's are
351M (actually considered a big block), 160k.  I've (accidentally) spun it 
well past redline before though.  Last time was last week when the gas pedal 
got stuck on the floor with it in neutral.  I'd hazard to say it hit at least 
6k... probably blew some chunks of carbon right out the exhaust I bet.
 LR> is fairly close to redline right there. Although 460's are
 LR> fairly easy to rebuild I'd like to have the block intact
 LR> with no big huge gaping holes with connecting rods sticking
 LR> out the sides when several years from now it comes time to
That DOES help when you want to rebuild. :)
Bondo? ;-)
 LR> rebuild the thing. It's been in the family since 1980 and
 LR> was the first thing I ever drove (I was 12 and way out in
This is my first vehicle, though hardly the first thing I've driven.  I 
BELIEVE I'm the second owner of the truck; when I got it, the original 
reciept 
dated July 1980 was in the glove box, along with maintenance records up to 
the 
mid 80's, owners manual, and lots of other papers.  All with the same name on 
them.
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