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once you start talking about stroking a 302 you will need an improved cylinder head and intake because the factory crap is to small to adqately feed the engine in stock form..... the reason ford keept the heads so small was to meet emissions and mileage requirments demanded by the goverment. as for ...

i put 90,000 miles on a 302 with j302 heads and a ford e303 cam wich is a crane 2040 cam, that cam had an enormuse amount of lowend punch with 10-1 compression. it made 290 wheel hp . the e cam is still emission legal and works well with forced induction because of its duration and lobe seperation a...

too many people make the mistake of a monster cam whick is great for horsepower will absoulutely destroy any idea of a resonable idle resonable mileage reasonable response reasonble low end torque, not to reasonable. large cams have theyre place in weekend warriors and friday nights on the streets, ...

i originally put my 302 and c-4 in the truck in 1994 when i graduated high school, im now on my third motor which is the 347 and have an aod, with 3.90 rear gears, IF I CAN KEEP MY FOOT OUT OF IT, i can get roughly 16 miles to the gallon in overdrive at 70 mph.

keep your displacement small, your port volume small, your cam small, and put a blower or turbo on it so you get the horsepower you want and the mileage if you keep your foot out of it. thats the problem with building a more efficient naturally asperated engine, it becomes more efficient at processi...

there are four variables that mainly affectfuel economy. vehicle weight and drag, engine displacement, camshaft, transmission high gear and rear ratio. not to mention the converter if automatic.

thanks it was kind of quiet out there i thought i might have offended the politicaly correct, O WELL!! our ammendment of the constitution garauntee the (FREEDOM OF RELIGION, NOT THE FREEDOM FROM RELIGION) . All of the laws that make this country unique and just were writen by our forfathers, who bas...

nothing new on the forum forced me to read through the old posts when i stumbled on this. I ABSOLUTLEY agree with nukegm, in my opinion most people sit back and see this stuff on the news and dont care because they think that it doesnt affect them, we need to start sticking up for other peoples righ...

yes you are correct, i assumed that it was common knowledge that ethanol is not petroleum based and can be very corrosive to some types of rubber and metel fittings. e85 has 15% gasoline for upper cylinder lubricant to keep the rings happy and to help with vaporization at cold temperatures to alieve...

in europe 60% of passenger cars are powered by deisel engine 3 liters or smaller that get 50+ miles per gallon. in america we need to produce an affordable passenger car ( probe cavalier saturn etc) not everybody needs a one ton truck with a turbo in a truck that weighs 7000 lbs.deisel fuel contains...

the 2.8 2.9 3.0 4.0 liter motors are 100 hevier give or take. the 302 is 100 hevier that the 6cyl engines. the 351 weighs 85 more than the 302's. there' alot more cast iron in the v8 engines than the four bangers, right around double the weight, using aluminum heads, intake, tubular headers, and alu...

yea i guess we are both guilty of a little miscummunication there, all of the radius arms on all the rangers are stamped. i was refering to the I beams on various model years of the truck. the small blocks are heavier than any other engine ford put in the rangers, unless you are running aluminum hea...

I'm sorry, igave u misimformation 83-88 beams were forged steel. 89-94 arms were cast iron. 95-97 were the stamped steel arms. iguess the reason they went to stampings was to reduce the weight of the vehicle to make mileage requirements by the government.

the right intake gasket your looking for is the fel pro 1262, its made for the larger than factory port sizethey are in summit and jegs for 20.00$ the ports size is 1.28 /2.10.

well i looked at the websight that cjnomor4 suggested and there are some great ideas but nothing concrete, itd would be nice if they werent being jerks to each other.