Re: Milage

"nunya" <nunya@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "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.
>>
>> 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.

Very true.

> 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.

I was pointing out that the 1/4 million miles with like trucks one ***mins

and one gas,you'd be ahead in the expense column with the ***mins if both 
were worked.

> 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
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> 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
The Dart is nice. I think were it mine and I were younger I'd opt for the 
hemi, keeping all the original stuff.
You might be in good shape with the 727's if you can read the numbers and 
they are old enough so sombody that is doing a number's matching can use 
one. E bay one and see how it goes.