perf-list-digest Monday, February 15 1999 Volume 02 : Number 039



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FTE Perf - RE: Inline Six performance
FTE Perf - Gauges

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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:12:45 -0500
From: Paul M Radecki
Subject: FTE Perf - RE: Inline Six performance

LOBUCK sez:
>>Here is three things you can do without gittin "inside". First,
headers

Late models came with a weird factory header, almost like a tri-Y except
with the obvious difference. Are these adaptable to earlier trucks? Are
they worth retaining on late model trucks?

>>and a
>>full dual 2 1/4" exhaust system. Use long glasspacks rather than
turbo's, the
>>sound is MUCH better and on a 6 they flow just as well.

Has anyone tried the Edelbrock Performer RPM mufflers? They look like
Turbos, but on the inside they're more like glasspacks. They are also
stainless, which is good because if I have to do exhaust work I only want
to have to do it once.

>> Second, if you want
>>to loose the injection, go with a DUAL PORT 4v after-market intake with
a 350
>>cfm PROGRESSIVE 2bbl Holley carb (both help keep the fuel/air mix movin
well
>>in the long runs to the outboard cylinders). If you want to keep it
put a
>>performance chip in the ecm.

I assume the chip is necessary to convince a speed density truck that it
is now SUPPOSED to be non-stock...

>> The next thing I would do is, if your stock cam
>>is OK, change to some 1.76 roller tip rockers, this keeps your duration
the
>>same but increases the lift. Just the ticket for more bottom end. All
three
>>of these are weekend projects that will breathe some fire into your 6.

Is there enough clearance to do this? I'd be extremely leery about
changing the valvetrain geometry without doing the "clay on the piston"
test first, though this does sound like a fairly mild upgrade. Where
does one find this sort of rockers for the Big Six?

lordjanusz juno.com
'94 F150 300cid
'73 F100 360(?) FE
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:05:20 -0600
From: "Dale and Donna Carmine"
Subject: FTE Perf - Gauges

> I guess I don't understand your references to "true" gauge and "idiot
light" gauge
>... I've heard the new oil pressure gauges referred to as idiot gauges

My understanding is that the late model gauges are not linear. They are
built this way so that they stay in the "middle" of the gauge over a wider
range of operating conditions. That way the dealers get fewer complaints
over conditions that are not really serious problems. The downside is, for
people like us who really want to know what's going on in the engine, we
get less useful information. So even though you may have gauges on your
late model truck.......you really don't know much more than what you learned
from the old idiot lites.

>.. when the tube to my oil gauge split and ruined brand new dress
>boots I kinda swore off (and AT!) mechanical gauges. :-)

I hate it when that happens!

later,
dale c



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