Thread: 406 SBC for sale

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Originally Posted by mooneye777

nice looking motor, why dont you take the 600 bucks you will lose on selling it and buy 600.00 worth of gas. seems like now you are wasting at least 600.00 before you even start the motor, but you are worried about wasting money on gas. Not to mention a smaller inch V8 motor will not save you a whole lot of gas anyway.

Makes sense to me. Let's say you get 15 mpg with the 400 and 20 mpg with a smaller motor. Let's also say that $600 will buy 171 gallons of fuel @ $3.50 per gallon. You'd be able to drive 10,250 miles with the 400 motor before you reached a break-even point. And think about the SMILES per gallon factor.

The more power you have the more you will use.= more gas usage