Originally Posted by 1972ford_f-100

oh, my friend,not to rain on ya'll v8'ers party,but there is a replacement, back in the 50's,60's,and 70's when we were all using gas guzlers,over in europe they used smaller engines for the mpg but used turbo's for the power facter,turbo's make alot of power very fast and cheaper and will increase mpg and power,and as we all know,exhaust is veiwed as waisted power down the pipe,but since a turbo uses that exhaust to spin a turbine to compress the air entering the engine,u waiste nearly only 1/4 of the power with out a turbo,i have plans of putting in a built 300 in my trcuk,with a turbo and all the goodies. i have seen many trcks with I6's that have waisted big v8's and still gone farther on a tank then them also....jmo and some facts