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Old Jul 24, 2007 | 06:54 PM
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I'm trying to finish up the rebuild on my truck and I was wondering how it will react to what I have going here. It's a 89' F-250 351 with HD 5 speed, 3.55's. I installed the Crane Cams 444232 grind cam in (int.448-exh.464), fully rebuilt E7 heads are going on and they are ported under the valves, I also am putting on long tubes with a custom dual exhaust system exiting before the rear tires. Just want to know if I should do anything or will this be much better than before? It was so bad before, just burning oil and couldn't barely pull itself, leaking all over. New custom speed pro rings, new bearing and seals should have taken care of most of that power loss and oil consumption. Is this setup ok or what should I expect to come?
 
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Old Jul 24, 2007 | 07:17 PM
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money for gas.
 
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Old Jul 24, 2007 | 07:44 PM
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X-Pipe give it better scavenging and theoretically gas mileage and torque.High Volume Oil pump.Double roller timing chain
 
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It'll be MUCH better than before..
 
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Old Jul 24, 2007 | 10:46 PM
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An X-pipe will not do anything for me. But yeah Conanski I hope for the best, I haven't seen this truck run normal so hopefully it's twice the gain.
To me it is. Thanks for the gas tip, I'm sure prices will go up by the time I have it running, isn't that how it goes?..
Alright so this is good then I hope.
 
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