hey does anyone know what color the powerband is on a stock 390?

 

It's whatever color you want it to be-

 

Mine is a leaky oil color

 

What is a powerband? Is it the belt I can never pronounce or spell that goes with a tux? Cummerbund or something like that?

 

It's that little red stripe at the very end of your tachometer.

 

Isn't the red area on the tach for decoration?
.....=o&o>.....

 

Color? Powerband? 390? HMmm I learn something strange & new everyday. . . . .
I didn't know tachs could define powerbands, all these years I thought the camshaft determined the powerband and the tach showed RPMs during operation....

 

I'll match ya, remember back in the 70's they had a gauge with green / yellow / red that was for fuel mileage on a dash vacuum gauge?
I kept it in the red zone like them red party lights you see in the rear view mirror.
In the orange zone like the exhaust manifolds glowing in the dark under full power?
Auto Zone?
Now the idiot zone i've passed thru many times.
.....=o&o>.....

 

Tragically, there is no sense of humor gauge on the dash of some folks' vehicles.

 

Let's try again...

PINK!

 

Now PINK will get you into more trouble than any other color including red on a tach.
.....=o&o>.....

 

I'm with you. I still have the vacuum guage mounted on the steering column. Kinda neat. Stomp on it and it goes to zero. Tells you when you are driving although I know when I'm driving. The dual exhaust tells me when I'm in the power range. It gets out of whack at 12,000ft altitude but who's counting.

Power bands are what is left when you stomp on it from a dead stop, if your FE has the juice. Color would be black.

Peace

 

Aye, Captain, hot pink is one color you pass through, then you laz ruby, and pass white hot as the stars zing past - but at true warp speed there is only the deep dark black of empty space!

 

Don't forget faster than the pure black of warp speed-
PLAID!
Now where's the color code for plaid?

 

so i guess what everyone is trying to say is that the powerband stops when the valves start bouncing and they start when you start to smile