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Old 02-03-2023, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Goatracer1 View Post
A swap to a late model drive train for a daily driver is probably a reasonable idea. For a hobby car swapping the drive train for the sake of mileage alone is not worth the expense or trouble. I added just AOD to my supercharged GTO and went from 6mpg to 15mpg on the highway. I would never recuperate the cost if I went the full route and installed a late model engine.
Thats my opinion as well, i have a GN BRF 2004R sitting on a shelf, ill probably use it, put 3.31 rear gears in the 12 bolt, 28" tires.

Then refresh the 7.9CR 781 headed, 454 with a fuel miser HFT cam around 215-220 @ 050 and .530 ...Small diameter full lenght headers and top it off with a fine tuned Qjet and aggressive HEI timing advance and run it on paint brush cleaner 87 octane.

Its funny I get as excited to build a fuel miser engine as I am for a high performance build lol!

Peter

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