Breaking the new years res

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Demonknight
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Breaking the new years res

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Saw an add months ago on a white 86 F150 with a 300I6, at that time I was looking to beef UP my 66 F250, not making her "lighter", Ideas came and went with me and a coworker throwing ideas at each other and the base idea was a straight 6 built for speed/fuel econ.

Ran into the add again yesterday and called the guy, price had dropped to $400 so I called and set a time to go see it today...well after looking at it and him showing me the problems with it I offered $300 cash and he jumped on it, fast enough I wonder just what he didn't show me :D

problems I know about, needs a new master for the brakes, ignition switch (something about those and the fords I buy) and new batt wires are needed..

Good things, the 300 fired right up and sounded nice, duel fuel tanks, bodys in good enough shape I should be able to part it out later and sell it. Comes with 3 spare tires and has decent tread on the tires. Also comes with a free set of pads (they bought new ones before they found out it was the MC that was bad)
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BarnieTrk
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Post by BarnieTrk »

For $300 it's hard to loose at that.

Once you've got it in your yard, fire the 300 back up and do a compression check, that'll tell you if it'll be worth your while to simply swap it into your Slick or if you should do a 're-fresh' on it first.

Good Luck!
BarnieTrk :cheers:
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Post by Slick Fan »

Sooo...what was the New Year's resolution? To not bite at carrots dangled in front of you? :lol:

Congrats, it sounds like you did pretty well on that deal.
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Demonknight
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Post by Demonknight »

:lol: The resolution was to NOT bring more toys home...too many as it is.

And I figure I can drive it as the 86 while I do the body work on the 66... One idea we have been toying with is to convert it to propane which likes a higher compression (apx13:1), so rebuild would be in order to take it from stock 8.4:1..if I remember my stats on the 300
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