Re: Milage

"Roy" <Roy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Any of you folks that can get a gas job to perform the same tasks as a 
> ***mins day in day out for !/4 million miles without some serious
repairs 
> I'd like to hear about.
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> How about a 2500 or 3500 ***mins and a gas job  and then go hot shot it.

> Give me a shout at 1/4 million miles and let me know what your
expenses's 
> are.
> HTF do you compare a dodge dart to a ***mins????<G>
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i will agree that for super heavy duty service that my gas burners will
not 
keep up with my ***mins.  but how many folks actually use their diesels
for 
real work.  90% of the ones i see on the road are just like my wife's. 
nothing but oversized passenger vehicles.  with the service i get out of
my 
other trucks i expect her's to last near about forever.

but since the topic had morphed into an economy idea, i was just pointing 
out that buying a diesel thinking that the extra fuel mileage was going to

save you money is mostly a myth when you figure in *all* of the costs. 
like 
i said before, if you are hauling a backhoe on a goose neck trailer every 
day or pulling a 36' fifth wheel camper full time the gas burner will not 
keep up.

how do i compare the dart to the ***mins?  just throwing in how many miles

it has and it is still running.  of course the oil leaks that are
sprouting 
are due to low manifold vacuum.  i am going to have to tear it down and 
rebuild it before long.  of course i have just been waiting for an excuse
to 
tear into the dart.  i am going to build it into a screamer.

here are a few photos of the little dart:

http://www.coolclimbing.com/dodgedart_mine.htm

i am going to put a mopar 390 hp/360 ci crate engine in it and i have a
NOS 
727 auto to shoehorn into it.  i also have a posi traction dana 60 to go 
under the rear.  this should make the car a blast to drive.

if any of ya'll need a good 727 auto i found five NOS mopar units in the 
storage building of a local dodge dealer.  i am going to keep two of them 
and sell the other three.  i also have two 292 hemis and a 354 hemi to
sell 
off.  i thought about putting one of the hemis in the dart but the 360
crate 
engine is just too easy.
michael