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Old 11-06-2012, 03:17 AM
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I had a well built 300 inline six in an 84 F250 4x4, 6" lift straight axle swap, and I stepped the rear end out on it in the snow a few times. My current F250 is a 69 2wd that originally had a stock 300, then a built FE 360 with a 4BBL, and now has a 7.3 IDI and ZF five speed. The 360 was decently fun and torquey, but thirsty. The place I was working at was on an odd point of a lot that the road wrapped around, and across the street was a performance parts distributor. Their guys were always doing burnouts and other activities, so one day coming back from lunch I decided to see what that truck would do. Hit the corner a little quick in second, stomped on it, and cut the wheel to kick it out. It behaved very well, walking cleanly around the corner and crackling against the rev limiter. Plenty of people came out of both shops to see what made this incredible sound, only to find a rusty old truck.
Now, with the diesel, it's fun in the dry, dangerous in the wet, and suicidal in the snow. It only gets used for highway hauling (what I built it for in the first place), so it's not too big of a deal. I'll have to get some videos of playing this winter, if I can get it up and down the hill from my house.
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