Got my Dirty Beast moving under its own power recently. It was down to the frame. I got a new cab, new front clip, reconditioned a lot of things, and got a lot of things working that didn't work before. It stilll needs a good bed, paint and a few other details, but I'm mostly done with this project for the next couple of seasons. I also built the 460 up a bit, with headers, straight-up timing chain, dizzy recurve, Weiand Stealth, 735 cfm Holley carb, and a cam that looks a lot like the old CJ cams. It sounds great and it's now truly a beast! (If I work on it over the winter, it's to mount my Paxton supercharger on it.)
But the gas milage! It isn't licensed for the road so it doesn't go far, and never really gets fully warmed up but I am not exagererating when I say it gets gallons per mile. I put a 1/2 gallon or so in and drive it out of my pole barn to the shed, let it warm up a few minutes, then drive it back to the pole barn, let it warm up a few minutes and it will run out of gas! It is 30 feet or so from my pole barn to my shed.
I don't wannna do the math, but I know that that is amazingly bad milage!
I would guess most of it went to priming the fuel system. There is probably 1/3 of a gallon in the tank still that the pickup wont' reach and the rest of it is in the fuel lines and pump. Hopefully it turns out to be better than it sounds now.
-Johnboy
I would guess most of it went to priming the fuel system. There is probably 1/3 of a gallon in the tank still that the pickup wont' reach and the rest of it is in the fuel lines and pump. Hopefully it turns out to be better than it sounds now.
-Johnboy
Honestly I don't think so because that was empty to empty. And I have a temporary tank set up, so I can see into it, and it is bone dry.
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