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Originally Posted by Striker2237
it take almost 20 min to warm up (with heater off) in winter and most of my trips don't take that long.
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So you do a lot of putting around town then? With maybe short jaunts of highway driving? If you never tow anything, do you at least haul stuff in the bed? More info on why you NEED a truck would help but most here are going to recommend a small car for trips where a truck isn't needed...And considering your rather low mileage, a $1,000 beater car would pay for itself pretty quickly. A block heater would help get to temp faster, and deleting the clutch fan (if equipped) in favor of an electric unit...the newer trucks might have switched to E-fans and would likely be an easy conversion.
You are planning on swapping in a 6.7; is that a diesel swap or just bigger gas engine?
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2007 Ford Focus ZX5 - 91k - SGII, pending upper and lower grill bocks - auto trans
1987 Monte Carlo SS - 5.3/4L80E swap - 13.67 @ 106
2007 Ford Focus Estate - 230k - 33mpg - Retired 4/2018
1995 Saturn SL2 - 256K miles - 44mpg - Retired 9/2014
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