Posted by Russ Roth on Friday, April 30, 2004 at 10:34AM :
In Reply to: Re: I'll bet they come close! posted by Todd Wilson on Thursday, April 29, 2004 at 10:09PM :
Well Todd finally got it right. All those big #'s don't mean a lot when you are trying to pull big weight and have to wind your RPM to the sky. You really need low down torque and gears with small cubes. I towed 16,000 gross over Cabbage hill when my '73 360 PW was near new. I had installed a 340 manifold/carb, dual exhaust and did some distributor work. It ran better than most in that size range. I still barely was able to pull in third gear part of the way. Came real close to dropping into second and had to pull the guts out of it to not drop another gear. It did pick back up into a comfortable range in third eventually.
RR
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