Watchdog7
Guarding the Gates
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Hello there folks. Just some thoughts here for the I6 guys.
If any of you have been following my posts, you'll find I don't follow the hype the 300 fan's give this popular motor. I am a fan but I don't worship the motor. One of my biggest complaints has been lack of power. I've been pretty disgusted with the ole' girl lately for this reason. Well today I climbed into my truck kind of peeved off at some things and decided I wasn't going to baby my truck any more; I was going to work my aggression out via my throttle (never a smart mentality).
Well I romped on her good. I didn't abuse the truck but I did push it fairly hard. I kept an eye on my tach; I was launching impressively hard, all under 2,500 rpm. I was barking my tires left and right and even had a tire-screeching moment coming off the line at half throttle.
I merely haven't DRIVEN the truck hard enough to really feel the power there. I honestly didn't think my truck had that kind of guts. Now that I know the power is there I'll go back to being easy on it.
Before you V-8 guys pipe up and say you bark your tires everywhere you go, etc etc etc.. I'm not saying my truck has 351 power. I'm just saying for an I6 my truck really surprised me today.
I guess I've just been babying the truck for so long I forgot the 300 does have some guts. I'd hate to know the amount of fuel I used in that short time though!! lol.
From now on I'll just keep my mouth shut when I see someone bragging about their 300's "power".
If any of you have been following my posts, you'll find I don't follow the hype the 300 fan's give this popular motor. I am a fan but I don't worship the motor. One of my biggest complaints has been lack of power. I've been pretty disgusted with the ole' girl lately for this reason. Well today I climbed into my truck kind of peeved off at some things and decided I wasn't going to baby my truck any more; I was going to work my aggression out via my throttle (never a smart mentality).
Well I romped on her good. I didn't abuse the truck but I did push it fairly hard. I kept an eye on my tach; I was launching impressively hard, all under 2,500 rpm. I was barking my tires left and right and even had a tire-screeching moment coming off the line at half throttle.
I merely haven't DRIVEN the truck hard enough to really feel the power there. I honestly didn't think my truck had that kind of guts. Now that I know the power is there I'll go back to being easy on it.
Before you V-8 guys pipe up and say you bark your tires everywhere you go, etc etc etc.. I'm not saying my truck has 351 power. I'm just saying for an I6 my truck really surprised me today.
I guess I've just been babying the truck for so long I forgot the 300 does have some guts. I'd hate to know the amount of fuel I used in that short time though!! lol.
From now on I'll just keep my mouth shut when I see someone bragging about their 300's "power".