The truck will mostly be used to drive within 3-4 hours of home loaded with the occasional daily driving it because I can. Shifting empty currently 4H-5H the power band I don't feel is broad enough but doable and that's empty. I'm not too worried about mpg, it's an old 2 and a half ton truck with a big block so it's only going to be so good anyways but I won't complain about an improvement. I do have an HEI distributor, fresh tune up, timing adjusted, block hugger headers and will be building an exhaust for it soon, the original was rusted out. I will also be ditching the governed Holley before too long also. That's about all I plan to do for adding power to it. I had to pull the trans a couple weeks ago and replaced the ring gear. While I was there I had the flywheel resurfaced and clutch rebuilt, it has a dual disc clutch from the factory.
Currently it does have 4 out of 6 9.00-20 but I will be going with a set of low pros on 22.5 295/75R22.5 are what I have in mind or roughly 40" and that is what all my ratios are figured at in the link. My trans 5H is my 1:1 and I was hoping to do the gear swap once and be done while using 5H as a sort of OD for those long halls but I also don't want to take away from my mid range where I'll be most of the time. I don't want it screaming at 72 mph at 3200 either because it doesn't like it.
Last edited by Pvmt-Pndr; 06/12/2019 11:36 PM.
