Welcome Dan, hope you enjoy your stay. I can always find info on my Ford truck on this sight.

 

hi dan... stop over at the chat room..i dont know much about tuning these new trucks for mileage but someone else in our group might

 

Welcome Dan!

As far as the mileage goes. ...If you find something to get better mileage out of a V-10, let me know. It will never be stellar. The plus side is, loaded or unloaded, the mileage will be the same. That V-10 flat just doesn't care what's behind it.

 

I'll sure let everybody know... I've been doing plenty of reading over on the V10 forum and want to try a few things. One step at a time... Gotta keep the family happy first

 

Sorry wrong thread.

 

Hi, my name is Dan, I live in a backwoods little town named Cadet that's in Eastern to South-Eastern Missouri. I have always been a Ford fan, especially of the 67-70 and 87-93 Mustangs, and 70's to 97 heavy duty 4x4 trucks. I have had several Mustangs over the years, I've just had a bad habit of putting more motor in them than they can stay on the road with, especially my last one that had a naturally aspirated 302/347 stroker that run on nothing less than 103 octane racing fuel and would bury the Ford Motorsport speedometer that registered 165, so I was never sure how fast that it actually went. I do know that it would try to pull the front tires high enough at 140 at 4000 rpm's in 4th gear that you could barely steer it and that it would rev 6,500 rpm's safely before shift out into 5th and by 3,500 in 5th it would bury the speedometer out, so it's safe to say that it was fast. Lol, anyway, I've spent the last 3 years building on my everyday driver 92 F-250 4x4 here and there as money permits. So far I've put a whole new brake system on it (rotors, wheel cylinders, calipers, and so on), new wheel bearings, new front axle u-joints, new ball joints (uppers and lowers), new tie rods and ends, a front leaf leveling kit (I plan on eventually putting a 4" set of lift springs on it with a 1 ton overload set for the back since I dismantled a 1 ton dually a while back and kept it's dually rear axle because it's 4" wider than the single wheel rear and the brake drums are 1/2" wider so I can have the front and rear tires about equally spaced without using spacers, have heavier duty brakes, and less chance of a fish tail while pulling heavy trailers, plus I cut the overload brackets from the dually's rear frame to put on my frame to catch the overload spring), all new u-joints for the front and rear drive shafts, new 16x10 aluminum American Racing Outlaw 2 wheels with 285/75x16 A/T tires that are decently lugged for off-road/snow, and that's just the regular maintenance stuff. Then I got into the rebuilding. I found alot better looking body so I stripped it down to the frame and put the better body down on it with polyeurethane body mounts. Then I installed a new aluminum heavy cooling radiator, new heater core, a high volume water pump, and for now a heavy duty cooling fan clutch. And last but definately not least, it needed a rebuild on the 351W engine, and even though I wanted to go all out, I was strapped for cash after all the other stuff I had done to it, so I just went for a temporary fix and had the block bored .030 over, had the stock heads shaved .010, put a Comp Cam 35-255-5 in it which is a towing cam that has a .478 int/.485 exh lift with a duration of 210 int/214 exh @ .050. I topped this off with a set of Flowtech (Holley) long tube headers, 3" dual pipes, a set of large high flow cats, and a set of super 44 Flowmaster mufflers. Pretty much the only things that I haven't rebuilt or replaced on it is the clutch, flywheel, transmission (a ZF 4-speed w/overdrive, the same as a 1 ton has), and the transfer case. Lol, there's nothing really special about me, I'm just your typical motorhead from the Mid-West, that's why I introduced my truck, 'Ol Blue is her name, instead. I am looking for someone on here that is good with figuring compression ratios to head compression chamber volume to help me make some part decisions for my future engine plans (either a 418 or 427 stroker). I'm trying to figure out what heads (compression chamber volume and valve sizes) that I need to get and what pistons I would need (flats or most likely dishs and if dishs what cc addition to the compression chamber volume of the head) so that I can get as close to 11:1 compression as I can without detonation on pump gas for both stroker possibilities. I'm wanting a seriously long stroked, low revving torquer out of my beast, so if anyone that has the knowledge is willing to do a little math for me and send me a message to let me know I'd highly appreciate it. Thanks in advance for any responses. I'm happy to be a part of the FTE community. Later fellow Ford fans.

 

hi dan welcome..stop by the missouri chat room and meet the guys... sounds like you are building a nice truck.. i dont know very much about these things but seems like 11to1 would be hard to do on pump gas at least in my area.. i have had several older stock type engines with 10 to 1 and had to retard the timing to where it wouldnt make power without a little fuel mixing.. but maybe someone here will know what you need as far as parts to build a stroker engine.. i am a poor boy so when i need low end grunt i usually think diesel.. or even near stock engine's like a 460 or big bore fe block..

 

Welcome Dan to FTE and the Missouri chapter, like RC said, sounds like you have put alot of hard work in your truck.

I am sure Alan (earthquake68) will have the head info you are looking for and will post it.

 

Hello everyone I'm Stanley in Rolla MO. I own a 79 F150 4x4 that I am restoring, This is my first restore so I am doing the best I can. It has the 300 6 engine, It has the Dana 44 front and 9in rear and 4 on the floor. I'm looking forward to chatting with a lot of you on here as I go along on this restore. I am looking for parts and have some for sale also.

 

Howdy there Stanley in Rolla, did you get your environmental control cable issues figured out yet? Make sure and stop on by the monthly chat and BS thread.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...l-welcome.html

 

Hey yall, Jamestown, mo here small town, nicknames country my names dalton, currently in Afghanistan defending that flag, I got a 1986 ford f150 single cab longbed 4x4 with the 5.0l 302 v8, hope to chat and join you guys

 

Hey Dalton! Stay safe over there! My gr grandfather moved to the Jamestown/Lupus area from Virginia after the Civil War - last name is Deatherage; related to the Nevins family of Jamestown through gr grandmother. Take care and get back here soon!.

 

Welcome Country/Dalton from Jamestown Mo, way out in the the woods between Columbia and Jeff City? Welcome to the Mo chapter, make sure you stop on by the monthly chat/bs thread.

I know you can't say, but avoid all the vacation hot spots like Kabul, Bahgram AF, Kandahar, Konduz, Mazar-i-Sharif, Herat, and J-bad I sure couldn't when I was there.

They have lousy hotels and the pools always closed. lol

Be safe, come back home ASAP. Thank you for doing your duty!

 

Really? I know a lot of the nivens around Jamestown, you can feel free to message me at pratherdalton@yahoo.com thanks

 

Yea I went through acouple of those, I'm a 13b field artillery, so I'm out at fob wright kunar province