newbie w/Dodge truck
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:33 am
I have a 1983 Dodge D 250; it has a 318 (that's CUBIC INCHES; screw this "liters" garbage) 727 trans, Dana 60 with 3.55 gearing, and I have added a performer intake, Carter AFB carb (about to swap to a Thermo Quad) stock-for-360-2-barrel cam, (compare to a COMP 252; very close for like 1/2 the cost) EQ Magnum-engine heads and Hooker headers and true dual exhaust. I have owned and worked on (in my 18 years of being a professional "wrench") many newer vehicles; I don't like them; they re overpriced and needlessly overcomplicated with too much under "computer control". Exactly why I went back to this age of truck. I like the K.I.S.S idea. Electronic ignition, 4 barrel carb, no computer dead solid dependable.
and no multi-hundred dollar electric fuel pump that requires tank removal; $18 and 2 bolts on the side of the block, an replaceable in like 20 minutes from over the fender. A semi is gonna have to flatten this truck or it will have to rot into the ground to see this truck go away. I am thinking of taking this other 318 I have laying here and building into a 390 CID stroker for the truck, but the current motor has been so dependable.
Being on Disability though with gas at $3.60-ish a gallon again and propane being over $1/gallon cheaper, and being that I got "the stuff" to convert it to dual fuel, I figure "why not"
Unsure whether dual fuel or dedicated propane is the "way to go"
if this works out I have 2, 4.0 Jeeps that I may consider trying to do the same thing to, and put propane on those too. but being those are black box controlled, I'm sure that those will be more complicated. problem being is that there is really no place to mount a tank unless I pull the gas tanks and go dedicated propane only. But let's get thru my truck 1st.
and no multi-hundred dollar electric fuel pump that requires tank removal; $18 and 2 bolts on the side of the block, an replaceable in like 20 minutes from over the fender. A semi is gonna have to flatten this truck or it will have to rot into the ground to see this truck go away. I am thinking of taking this other 318 I have laying here and building into a 390 CID stroker for the truck, but the current motor has been so dependable.
Being on Disability though with gas at $3.60-ish a gallon again and propane being over $1/gallon cheaper, and being that I got "the stuff" to convert it to dual fuel, I figure "why not"
Unsure whether dual fuel or dedicated propane is the "way to go"
if this works out I have 2, 4.0 Jeeps that I may consider trying to do the same thing to, and put propane on those too. but being those are black box controlled, I'm sure that those will be more complicated. problem being is that there is really no place to mount a tank unless I pull the gas tanks and go dedicated propane only. But let's get thru my truck 1st.