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Originally Posted by rspears

We had a project in AZ, 90 miles south of Phoenix, and the field PM had parked his black truck, windows up tight, and we went to get lunch, temp 114F. He'd picked up a new gas grill insert thermometer on the way to the site that morning, picked it up and dropped it, too hot to hold. It read 185F! We put the windows down an inch when we went in to eat....

Damn…. Bet I could cook cookies

Originally Posted by TooMany2count

Damn…. Bet I could cook cookies

They wouldn't get brown, but the best finish temp for pulled pork is 185-190F...... Now how to get that smoky taste?

:speaking of high gas prices .. back in 76 during the gas shortage era i had just bought my first pinto .. gas was rationed out so i could not keep getting around in 428 mustangs or 440 six pac bees .. it was kind of silly around me .. you could only buy 5 gallons at a time but you could pull thru the line as many times as needed .. i would get my 5 gallons .. pull off the lot and circle back and get 5 more ..being the conscientious saver i was back then i invested in every over the counter fuel saving device on the market .. my first mod was a header and free flowing exhaust system .. garnered me a cool 15 % increase in fuel mileage .. next i added a free flow air filter element most likely a K& N .. got 10 % with that change .. i added lower friction rear gear and trans lubes and was amazed to get a 20 % rise .. i re jetted the carb and did away with the choke system and got another 20 % jump in mileage .. maintaining the correct the tire pressure got me 5 % . i started using fuel additives and stretched a gallon by 15 more % ,, i switched to pertronics electric ignition and opened up the spark plug gap and got the biggest jump of all fully a 25 % increase .. even before it was a common thang i would turn off my cat at stop signs ,, 5 % ,, all that added up to a 115 % increase in fuel mileage .. to my surprise every week i had to drain a gallon and a half out of my tank ,,