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    Also, if I do go the blower route, it'll be hard to put a hood on it and cover it all up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe View Post
    Also, if I do go the blower route, it'll be hard to put a hood on it and cover it all up.
    How about I just start looking for a nice, low mileage PRIUS, I can trailer it up to Iowa, drop it off with the title and load up the old '40, the Hemi, and all of the associated stuff that's taking up your space and worrying you about fuel economy?
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    Brooks Construction 40 would be so much fun to drive around in. That has to bring nothing but smiles to people. Even the hardcore have to grin a little.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    How about I just start looking for a nice, low mileage PRIUS, I can trailer it up to Iowa, drop it off with the title and load up the old '40, the Hemi, and all of the associated stuff that's taking up your space and worrying you about fuel economy?
    Laugh it up while you can. You can keep the Prius or any rice crap for that matter.

    So how many of you rich retired guys drive your 8-9mpg street rods daily at over 60 miles per day? Like I said, this car will be driven and I want to "try" to get the best milage I can. It'll help me be able to drive it. I was able to squeak 15 out of the 377 TH400 combo, but it was no power house. I could go EFI but there again, my budget is low. It'd be nice to be able to load up in it and head for Texas or what ever and not worry about a lot of things. I'm addressing all the things that didn't get fixed before so it should be a lot easier to take it farther away. I was constantly repairing it before. Now it should be un presidentailly solutioned so to speak.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scooting View Post
    Brooks Construction 40 would be so much fun to drive around in. That has to bring nothing but smiles to people. Even the hardcore have to grin a little.
    I first saw it and was like WTF, hmm, wow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe View Post
    So how many of you rich retired guys drive your 8-9mpg street rods daily at over 60 miles per day? Like I said, this car will be driven and I want to "try" to get the best milage I can.
    I think I can safely say that "WE" are all your side when it comes to being able to own and drive the Hot Rod that you built. But if you want "power adders"? Like a Turbo (or 2) or a supercharger with a four barrel (or 2) then the addidional power comes with a cost! And if you are like me, you will never keep the right foot from pressing to hard!

    Can I or anyone say you won't reach 15 mpg? No, not with any certainty.. but I highly doubt you'll reach 15 mpg. Of course that is just a guess and there are many variables like tire sizes and gearing etc. etc. etc..., If you want to drive it daily and achieve the most mpg you can, AND do better mpg than a Hummer? Stay away from the "power adders" at a minimum..

    Again, just my point oh two, YMMV, yad yada yada..

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    I hear what you're saying. In my calls to Hot Heads, Bill I believe is his name, told me they have an employee with a coupe that has a turbo 392 that has a lock up over drive trans and he is getting 19. It's a single carb blow through set up too. True or false, IDK
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    Rich retired guys, huh? I've got so many things flying around my head with that comment that I'm bound to make someone mad or offended with my reply if I start. Suffice it to say that once you attain that point in life I expect you'll realize how many ways that sentence is wrong. Best of luck with the decisions on the drive train for the '40. I hope that it meets all of your expectations for both power and economy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe View Post
    I hear what you're saying. In my calls to Hot Heads, Bill I believe is his name, told me they have an employee with a coupe that has a turbo 392 that has a lock up over drive trans and he is getting 19. It's a single carb blow through set up too. True or false, IDK
    If I drive my coupe home from my sisters.. I'll bet I could click off 19 mpg.. She lives in Vermont so it's all DOWNHILL! ROFL.

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    My Nova got 9 or 10 mph when driving about 3 0r 4 when having fun
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    Rich retired guys, huh? I've got so many things flying around my head with that comment that I'm bound to make someone mad or offended with my reply if I start. Suffice it to say that once you attain that point in life I expect you'll realize how many ways that sentence is wrong. Best of luck with the decisions on the drive train for the '40. I hope that it meets all of your expectations for both power and economy.
    I wasn't trying to ruffle any feathers with that. I typed that with a smile, I just figured since mileage isn't a concern that money can't be either. Mileage isn't my main concern on it, but i'd like to try to make it the best I can considering what it is. I hope I'm rich when I retire but at the rate my SS is going, I for sure won't have that so I'll have to rely on what ever I provide myself. My last SS statement says I can't draw until I'm 72 and I've been putting in since I was 13. I'm not waiting to retire at 72 for sure. I doubt the descion will meet all my expectations because it'll never be done if you know what I mean.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 34_40 View Post
    If I drive my coupe home from my sisters.. I'll bet I could click off 19 mpg.. She lives in Vermont so it's all DOWNHILL! ROFL.
    Mine gets awesome mileage right now. It has to be hauled everywhere. Haha
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    Quote Originally Posted by cffisher View Post
    My Nova got 9 or 10 mph when driving about 3 0r 4 when having fun
    That's how my 72 Camaro was. Town gas station to town gas station.
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    On a side thought.................... Have any of you guys seen the big steel wheels with baby moon hub caps on anything near you? (Bigger than 16") I kind of had the thought that something like that might look good on here. It seems it's getting pretty hard to find a wheel that isn't everywhere anymore.
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    I haven't seen any but to be honest, I quit looking at steelies 2 years ago. The whole red (or insert a color here) wheel with baby moon - with or without a beauty ring - is more copied than the Cragar 5 spoke!

    Oh, and run wide whites with that combo and you've got the other half of a plain vanilla 32 w\SBC in it. (IMHO )

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