highperformanceamc

I had a '66 Rogue, with a 360 and a T-5, it got around 26 on the freeway at about 80 mph. You should be able to best that with an EFI sicks banger.

I hope. I'm in a bit of a bind. My wife was hinting at the fact that we are spending way too much on gas. Basically, she wants me to find something that gets good gas mileage. She is a little pissed that I have 5 cars and I get nothing better than 15 MPG. So, I am thinking about selling my Wrangler. I really don't want too, but gas is projected to be well over $4 a gallon here shortly and we just can't afford that with as much as we drive. She drives at least 100 miles a day and I drive about 60-70 a day. I figure I should be able to get about 7 grand for the Wrangler. My truck needs about 2 g's to be done with it's restoration and I could put a good amount towards the Concord. I would hope to have a couple grand left over to pay some shit off. My other alternative is to go buy a Honda Civic. They are pretty well made actually and seem to last forever. They get around 30 something in the city sometimes over 40 on the highway. I could buy one for about $3-5 grand and have a little left over for either the truck or the Concord. I really just don't know what to do but need to do something.

If you buy a Honda, get an Accord. Excellent cars. Much better ride and drive than a Civic and still over 30 mpg on the highway.

Whys the Wrangler bad on gas,Its a 6 banger and F.I too?

Go out in your garage and grab a large piece of cardboard. Go outside and figure out which way the wind is blowing. Now, hold up that cardboard in front of you and run as best you can into the wind. That's pretty much a Wrangler. It's a 4000 pound brick. The Cherokee does a little better, 18 city and low 20's on the highway, that is mostly because the aerodynamics are a little bit better and it weighs less.

I do like the Accord's. My wife drives a 03 sedan with the 3.0L V6, leather, power everything, sunroof, etc. It rides really nice with the right tire on it and does move pretty damn well. Surprisingly quick little bastard.

holy batnuts crapman I had an 82 model c-j8 scrambler with a 258 and a 5 speed and it got 18 mpg.....uhh... once I scuttled the computer and feedback carb and installed a regular old bbd two barrel. come to think of it it got about 12 mpg from the factory...and what a pile of gutless shit it was stock. your right fuck that wrangler and get a ricepile to flog.

ok so racin season is off till september, and apparantly there are no more amc engines to build, and i'm back on to the JUNKSHIT 6 banger turbo project. WHY? why the fuck not? If nuthin else this shitheap will make a swell streeter. In a junked out piece of shit way and thats cool with the spud. as much as I hated to do it, I had the block bored and bought new rings and pistons. yeah, they were cheap. real cheap. like chinese cheap. but hey, who wants to go around foggin for mosquitoes with an oil burner. so I noticed the crank was gettin some fuzzy orange rust on it, so i drug it into the shed for some shoeshine polishing. i don't think it's too screwed up to run. as for the rest of the engine, I think it'll be ok, i guess i'll get some new gaskets and bearings and toss this thing back together. I'm gonna use some junk from an old 258, damper, pulleys, brackets, distributer, and whatnot for the old school accesory drive and ignition, and will run a carb. I think the one thing I will hafta dump$$ into is a good intake, the clifford looks like the way to go for simplicity. no bullshit efi for me. I wish I could post some pictures. this shit sucks pretty bad.

Jeepin wrote:I hope. I'm in a bit of a bind. My wife was hinting at the fact that we are spending way too much on gas. Basically, she wants me to find something that gets good gas mileage. She is a little pissed that I have 5 cars and I get nothing better than 15 MPG. So, I am thinking about selling my Wrangler. I really don't want too, but gas is projected to be well over $4 a gallon here shortly and we just can't afford that with as much as we drive. She drives at least 100 miles a day and I drive about 60-70 a day. I figure I should be able to get about 7 grand for the Wrangler. My truck needs about 2 g's to be done with it's restoration and I could put a good amount towards the Concord. I would hope to have a couple grand left over to pay some shit off. My other alternative is to go buy a Honda Civic. They are pretty well made actually and seem to last forever. They get around 30 something in the city sometimes over 40 on the highway. I could buy one for about $3-5 grand and have a little left over for either the truck or the Concord. I really just don't know what to do but need to do something.

OK heres the first problem.... you listen to your wife, lets work on that first... Remember Baby steps here. Were not trying to change the world, just your perspective on life, AS IT REALLY IS... call me we'll talk

yawl ain't gonna believe it. the 4oh's cylinder head is cracked. nutz. it sits down at the machine shop since like march and now when they get ready to do it they tell me it's cracked. wtf should i do now? quit? ok i'm done

weld it what are ya stupid?

where is it cracked at? i could probably fix it for ya. the price will be right also.

Just about any auto machine shop should have a powder-welding setup for cast iron.

spudster wrote:yawl ain't gonna believe it. the 4oh's cylinder head is cracked. nutz. it sits down at the machine shop since like march and now when they get ready to do it they tell me it's cracked. wtf should i do now? quit? ok i'm done

I got a 98 4oh head that's seems great, wouldn't need any work done I'm sure. I need a running V8 for my car.... wanna work up a trade?

GO JEEPIN GO...

Jeepin wrote:

spudster wrote:yawl ain't gonna believe it. the 4oh's cylinder head is cracked. nutz. it sits down at the machine shop since like march and now when they get ready to do it they tell me it's cracked. wtf should i do now? quit? ok i'm done

I got a 98 4oh head that's seems great, wouldn't need any work done I'm sure. I need a running V8 for my car.... wanna work up a trade?

i don't have any running v-8s with a torqueflite crank. I have a 360 with a borgamatic crank though.