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Had a fun little adventure picking up the 292,went to the east side of Cleveland to pick up the motor and a COM but the COM was missing along with the exhaust manifolds but it has the valley pan that I can use for a PCV system so all is not bad. Since he no longer had the trans I picked up a factory 4 bbl intake for a 289/302 and a carter 4 bbl from a 56 merc,well the 292 had been sitting on the garage floor for about 40 years and I think it rusted a hole in the oil pan so the back of my truck looks like the gulf of mexico with the oil and some water from the rain we went through. On the way home I picked up a 49 pontiac for a guy at work in Akron and headed for home,I think I picked up a bad tank of gas as the truck did not run too good and with all the load it was all I could do to get it to go 60 and did act like the fuel pump was going out a couple times. That tank did not last long and when I stopped for gas again it would not idle too good but after I filled up it started running better and could go 65 with no problem so I better get some dry gas and put in the tank,I was suprised that my beater truck with a 460 got 15 miles to the gallon pulling a dolly up to get the motor as around town I doubt it gets 10. I filled up again about 20 miles north of Columbus and it still has over 3/4 of a tank so the 460 does not do to bad on the highway even with towing a heavy car and a motor in the back,I am going to use the 460 in another truck project when I am done with my 66 F250 and with some tuning I might be able to get 18 to 20 on the highway with it. If anyone is interested in the later 2 bbl intake and a expansion tank let me know as those will not be used.
Butchering up everything I can get my hands on in Dayton Ohio
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