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- NORTH IDAHO, 7B
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- B2 "Slightly" Modified
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Mileage is not bad at all, now that the bugs are all worked out, it shifts and drives better than any drivetrain I have had in there to date. However since it is so much fun to drive and sounds *****in I would not say I have been doing any MPG tests, more like how much gas can I use up in one day, type driving
It is similar to the 4.0L and A4LD milage wise, I would guesstimate about 16 mpg average. Please keep in mind this truck is an 88 with 4.10 gears and 33's, so the speedometer/odometer, although very close, are not as accurate as say, my GPS.
The wheels are always getting compliments, I love them too! Unfortunatley they are crap. They are made by Superior (out of business) and are called "Startec" they are 15x7.5 with 3.75 BS. I picked them up from a used wheel shop about 5 years ago for $350 or something...two of them were bent pretty badly, the guy I bought them from failed to tell me this and they were on HIS truck! Jerk!
Anyways I tracked down a company in CA that had purchased all of Superior's left over stock, and I bought a 5th wheel for $180 hahaha So that is why I have 5, the bent one is my spare. The other one is only slightly bent and I am actually going to have both the bent ones straightened here pretty soon, I met a guy who does this.
I love the look of the wheels for sure, I wish someone else would make a similar dish 5 star style rim, but in truth they are junk....they take ALOT of stick on weights to balance out to 0, and then I run Equal on top of that....
Progress on the truck continues, she vapor locked on me a few times recently, the exhaust required some heat shielding. I re-located my fuel filter and heat protected it, I bit ythe bullet and wrapped the explorer down pipes with copper header wrap, I fabricated heat shields for the fuel lines at the valve cover, the cat converter to torque converter, and also cat converter to shift solenoids. So far so good! She runs like a DREAM. Next I am adding an additional trans cooler (pan temp has seen 180 lately, not too hot but hotter then I would like to see), my rolled 96 Explorer the trans cooler survived so its going in the BII. Then I will be adding A/C in the next couple of weeks, I have all the parts. It will require two custom hoses to be built and re-mounting of my Ron Davis radiator = weekend project
Mileage is not bad at all, now that the bugs are all worked out, it shifts and drives better than any drivetrain I have had in there to date. However since it is so much fun to drive and sounds *****in I would not say I have been doing any MPG tests, more like how much gas can I use up in one day, type driving
It is similar to the 4.0L and A4LD milage wise, I would guesstimate about 16 mpg average. Please keep in mind this truck is an 88 with 4.10 gears and 33's, so the speedometer/odometer, although very close, are not as accurate as say, my GPS.
The wheels are always getting compliments, I love them too! Unfortunatley they are crap. They are made by Superior (out of business) and are called "Startec" they are 15x7.5 with 3.75 BS. I picked them up from a used wheel shop about 5 years ago for $350 or something...two of them were bent pretty badly, the guy I bought them from failed to tell me this and they were on HIS truck! Jerk!
Anyways I tracked down a company in CA that had purchased all of Superior's left over stock, and I bought a 5th wheel for $180 hahaha So that is why I have 5, the bent one is my spare. The other one is only slightly bent and I am actually going to have both the bent ones straightened here pretty soon, I met a guy who does this.
I love the look of the wheels for sure, I wish someone else would make a similar dish 5 star style rim, but in truth they are junk....they take ALOT of stick on weights to balance out to 0, and then I run Equal on top of that....
Progress on the truck continues, she vapor locked on me a few times recently, the exhaust required some heat shielding. I re-located my fuel filter and heat protected it, I bit ythe bullet and wrapped the explorer down pipes with copper header wrap, I fabricated heat shields for the fuel lines at the valve cover, the cat converter to torque converter, and also cat converter to shift solenoids. So far so good! She runs like a DREAM. Next I am adding an additional trans cooler (pan temp has seen 180 lately, not too hot but hotter then I would like to see), my rolled 96 Explorer the trans cooler survived so its going in the BII. Then I will be adding A/C in the next couple of weeks, I have all the parts. It will require two custom hoses to be built and re-mounting of my Ron Davis radiator = weekend project