Check U tube about inline 300-6...saw a 59 pick up doing wheel stands off the drag line...find an "old timer" to hook up with and build your 300 for a tenth of what a V8 would cost. Want more? Buy a Laborrdininnniiiiii..

 

I think CS is just making the mistake that a lot of people who are new to the 300. I['m guilty of it myself. When I got my Bronco the first thing I wanted to do was get a bigger "BETTER" motor in it. After research I discovered I already had it.

The 300(4.9L) is probably the only real truck motor built in years other than a diesel engine. In a truck, you want something that pulls. You need torque and that's what that engine has. To quote what I was told by countless others when I first looked into my little engine.

"If you want an engine with more torque and more longevity, buy a diesel"

The 300 is just a solid, strong engine that gets the job done. It may not do it fast off the line but it gets there and can stay there. I'm still relatively new to this myself and I'm still learning but there's people on here that have forgotten about stuff I haven't even scratched the surface of yet. Listen to them and you'll learn a lot too.

 

Worst thing ford ever did was quite making the 300 in-line 6. I have one in my F-150 (1980 - 4X4 - Four speed), and my dad used to have on in his F-350 (1981 - 2 wheel drive - Four speed), and it will pull anything I hook it to. In fact, it will out pull my dads 1998 Chevy with a 350 vortex (4X4 - auto).

I have three on the engine's. (2 run, the other one had a broke crank shaft (Original out of my F-150), and the block is messed up, so I use it for parts)

I am working on building a plow truck, and that is the engine that I want to put in it. I don't care for the 300 with a auto tranny, but i don't like auto trannys in anything.

 

i don't know who mentioned the I6 240ci it is the same engine as the 300ci the 240 actually has the potential for a longer life than the 300 and that is saying alot

 

All of us real old guys laugh at the huge engines people think are "necessary" nowdays. If you have the gearing, you can haul anything. I once drove an 18' Ford C-cab box truck, granny 4-speed with a 2-speed rearend, towing a 32' Unlimited hydroplane on a heavy trailer and carrying two Rolls Merlin V-12 fighter plane engines (one ton apiece), all tools, maybe a drum or two of fuel (I forget), from Seattle to San Diego for a race, then to Phoenix for another race, then back to Seattle. Engine: a stock 302. Same kind of thing with cars; I drove my little VW all over the Northwest, across the passes, etc., carrying three buddies and camping gear. Horsepower: forty. Displacement: 72 cu. in..

As long as you don't feel, as so many guys do now, that you are underpowered if your loaded truck and trailer won't pass all cars that are going just under the speed limit on mountain roads at high altitude, you can live happily with a 300-six.


(FWIW, another thing we old men laugh at is the "need" of young guys for four-wheel-drive going anywhere off main roads. In the Fifties and Sixties, any family man going hunting took either a two-wheel-drive half-ton pickup, if he had one, or the family station wagon or sedan up the trails, got his animal, and never felt he was deprived of the necessities).

 

i had an 86 bronco with a 302, my 96 f150 has a 300. I would not want to trade back. that said, I would not want a mustang with a 300.

 

If this Pony is a compitition car...? Check your rules and find out if you have a weight bonus OR realy important will be ANY off set you may use to your advantage...what is that? re.. (may)alow you to move the motor within a point messured from a point off the A frame. I've seen this used to great advantages in weight distrabution.
PLUS in road racers all that low end and mid range torque will out pull most v8s. HAMMER DOWN !

 

i agree with most everyone, the mistake was discontinuing it.