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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Aircooled bugs aren't happy in 110 degree heat pulling 5 mile long +3% hills. The palmdale to home pull crispied typically #1 cylinder sometimes #3. God help me if the wife had to hit second gear on the way home on the 6% hill out of Bakersfield. I did my own remans using only German parts because the wife was very fussy. Cold it was two kicks of the gas pedal and a key flick and it had better be running. One day the fanbelt had the audacity to break, so she immediately demanded and got a brand new car.
I believe the firing order of the 7.3 isnt left side right side, so that makes a crappy compressor
Which engine in the ranger? If you have a 90 degree six block, then it might work, I know a 60 degree will shake like a wet dog.
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It's a 92 with the 3.0L v6, know next to nothing about them, not really a gas ford engine fan lol.
The 85 GMC 15 I have I'm pretty sure the 2.8L is the 60 degree or similar engine, that thing is so gutless even with all 6 cylinders firing though lol, floored top speed is about 60-65mph depending on the wind. It's an 87 fuel injected engine with the intake swapped over to carb and inline fuel pump added. Either the carb is wildly out of tune, or the fuel injection heads are very restrictive for the carb to work right. Either case, it 4x4's well for low range and low speed, just has no power to be road worthy so it's a yard beater (more like a yard sitter lol). I kind of have a personal junk yard.
I have a 1999 Camry out back that has a rod through the block, already one cylinder deactivated xD, it ran on the other 5 fairly well, it drove the 1200ft out back under it's own power, just doesn't sound too well, and it doesn't keep oil in the engine so well. The last owner said it blew on the expressway going 70 and he let it run very low or out of oil.
Anyway, I suspect it depends how each cylinder is clocked on the crank, or the firing order. I guess my lexus would be ideal for the firing order, it's a 90 degree engine with firing order 12345678.
Google says the powerstroke is 1-2-7-3-4-5-6-8, so yea it wouldn't be too balanced side to side, it would take some solid planning to do it right and both heads would have to be installed.
Too bad there isn't a bit more research on mpg besides the more extreme cases. Like having the peak torque lower in the rpm range I'd think would give mpg increases, but that would have to be paired up with correct gearing and such. I know my corolla vs the 1.6L version of the car, the 1.8L did much better, but it has lower rpm peak torque, and more gears and higher over drive etc. My cousin was getting about 33mpg out of the 1.6L with over 100k less miles on the car while I was pretty easily getting 40mpg.