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I just bought a '95 F250 4x4 with a 460. I have been curious about installing a chip down the road, but I'm not sure if it would be worth it in the end. I don't have a lead foot but would like to freedom to do whatever was needed. However, with the 4.10 rear end, I would need a good tach to keep a better watch on the rpms. Any suggestions?
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I would build a better suited platform such as a car or sportbike, in college I had a yamaha r6 for example that ran 186 off the showroom floor.but if you only wanted to run a buck twenty or so I would find a single cab shortbed f150 and do a 408 stroker or A 460 swap.
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The idea is not to beat land speed records or anything but to have fun if I could hit 140 on the salt flats I would be more then thrilled. Also on the bumps I believe the salt flats are smooth and softer then concrete so that should help and I would imagine the truck your talking about might be a good bit more front heavy then mine so that might effect it as well
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cbakker Really man? So the salt flats aren't well maintained? Last I checked the salt flats are the best place for hitting max speed but people have only been doing that out there for 100 years so I'm sure you know more about it then them you should call them and have them close up shop. Making a pickup go 140 is dumb? So it's stupid for someone to enjoy a vehicle and push it to the max? You better call the guys who set speed records in semis and tell them they should go buy a mustang.
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I was goimg to say. I only had my 03 R6 do 156 right against the governor
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Was that indicated or actual? The speedometers on most of the crotch rockets are pretty optimistic. I seem to recall reading that the tachs were a little off too, but in the other direction. I think Yamaha wanted to claim a 14000 rpm redline when it was actually in the 13's.
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Was that indicated or actual? The speedometers on most of the crotch rockets are pretty optimistic. I seem to recall reading that the tachs were a little off too, but in the other direction. I think Yamaha wanted to claim a 14000 rpm redline when it was actually in the 13's.
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cbakker Really man? So the salt flats aren't well maintained? Last I checked the salt flats are the best place for hitting max speed but people have only been doing that out there for 100 years so I'm sure you know more about it then them you should call them and have them close up shop. Making a pickup go 140 is dumb? So it's stupid for someone to enjoy a vehicle and push it to the max? You better call the guys who set speed records in semis and tell them they should go buy a mustang.
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Was that indicated or actual? The speedometers on most of the crotch rockets are pretty optimistic. I seem to recall reading that the tachs were a little off too, but in the other direction. I think Yamaha wanted to claim a 14000 rpm redline when it was actually in the 13's.
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Way back when, when I had my original 1988 XLT Lariat (the dark & light gray one I loved), I drove her -solo- out to California & back... I know this- she cruised from Monterey Cal. back to the New Mexico-Texas state line in less than 24 hours... At one lonely point, she was running around 85 for several hours straight: and I am pretty sure she had more to go... She had the 5.0l V-8 with the AODE(IIRC) trans...
She was a lovely truck... I am thinking my 91 will be just as enjoyed... (The blue & silver 88 I had never made high marks. I guess part of it was I never forgave it for running out of gas on my first day at a new job, because the last owner had failed to tell me the tank leaked, and the gauge was wonky in that one... lol... However, I gave that one to an ex-girlfriend from Hell to get her, her crap & her kids back to Texas one year: And the exhaust broke at the front of the muffler just when I dropped it off. So she had 1600 miles of exhaust noise... She gave the truck to her dad- he loved it- and remarried her ex-husband whom I'd paid to fly up and drive back to Texas with her... lol... Seems the trip "gave them time to talk")
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She was a lovely truck... I am thinking my 91 will be just as enjoyed... (The blue & silver 88 I had never made high marks. I guess part of it was I never forgave it for running out of gas on my first day at a new job, because the last owner had failed to tell me the tank leaked, and the gauge was wonky in that one... lol... However, I gave that one to an ex-girlfriend from Hell to get her, her crap & her kids back to Texas one year: And the exhaust broke at the front of the muffler just when I dropped it off. So she had 1600 miles of exhaust noise... She gave the truck to her dad- he loved it- and remarried her ex-husband whom I'd paid to fly up and drive back to Texas with her... lol... Seems the trip "gave them time to talk")
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