My 4.9 gets 20 mpg my 302 gets 13.5 and nothing pulls down low like the 300 I mean nothing!!!!

 

Every 300 i have ever had was a gutless dog. Sure it may pull a load, but itll take 2 miles to get to 55.

 

yeah it was the superchrged 97 and he did spin the tires but the 5.9 still won doesnt matter how much power you have if you cant use it

 

you probably didnt have the right gears. if every 300 you ever had had 2.73 gears than no wonder every 300 you had was a gutless dog put 4.10s in her and then see. also the inline sixes are built for horsepower they were built for low down stump pulling torque not for pampered rich snobs who think they have to do the speed limit with a 4 ton load behind them in a vehicle that has terrible aerodynamics to begin with not to mention the fact that a 300 will kill a 302 or 351 in terms on reliability and longetivity. or maybe ur trucks just suck

 

Or maybe 300-6s are just gutless? You put 4.10s on a 300-6 5spd with stock tires, and you'd be spinning 2700 RPM just to do 70. That's strung out for a 300-6. 3rd at the redline would only carry you to ~49 MPH. The truck would be pretty much useless for modern highway traffic.

 

People think because its slow that it is gutless they dont know anything about trucks

 

I may not know everything about trucks like you, but i do know about punctuation. Hint hint

 

The inline 6 pulls good down low, but runs out of breath quickly. My 351 has pretty good midrange punch for a stock smallblock, even in such a heavy truck. I've driven Dakota R/Ts and S/C Lightnings, they're fast trucks to say the least. Pin to the seat power title goes to my old Typhoon, that would surprise quite a few people, and give both the R/T and Lightning a run for their money.

I used to also have an 81 Chevy C20 with the 292, 4.10s and the SM465 trans. Would pull damn near anything, but was screaming at 3k a little above 60.

 

A properly running Typhoon/Scyclone is much, much faster than a Dakota R/T or Lightning. Possibly even quicker than the later supercharged Lightnings.

 

I'd estimate I was in the 5 second range 0-60. Build 5-7lbs of boost, let off the brakes, hammer down and hang on. That poor kid in the stage 3 SRT4 didn't know what hit him

The Achilles heel for those trucks was anything above 60-70mph. They paid dearly for the lack of aerodynamics.

 

it still doesnt matter much gears multiply torque so 4.10 gears muliply torque more than numerically lower gears

 

this is also why the first gear in any transmission is numerically higher gears

 

true but it wasnt built for horsepower and it has poor flowing heads by design so high speed power is a no

my grandpas dad had a 67 chevy k10 that had a 4 speed and 6.11 gears he said he pulled tractors out of mud with it no problem but would top out at 63 MPH

 

This is a dumb thread save for the original question, has anyone ever put a stock 4.9 equipped F150 on the dyno? I suspect the answer is "no" (or at least, not that anyone knows of).

 

its all good i like to let people that like to talk talk that way i know just how full of **** they really arex