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[81cr450]

MMMMMMM BBC , I love me some BBC

Id go with the 454 version as tha 8.1 is an odd duck though & about nothing else bbc fits


Cool trivia, thats why i think honda cars are bulletproof , dont have the power to blow themselves to smitherines 

[Foxx4Beaver]

A hospital I worked at in Maine in 2002 had a new 01 Chevy PU with the 8.1/Allison tranny...it breaks down to a 496cu.
I will say, it was, and still is the fastest most powerful stock gas (and diesel for that matter) PU I have ever driven.
Not that you care to know....but I'd take it out on a daily basis just to go out and lay down some INSANE posi strips around Bar Harbor....and feel the rush of the "plastered in the seat acceleration" and HEALTHY shifts.
I did this for nearly 2 years with that thing, and never had any issues....it took the abuse like a typical Chevy. And I know I wasn't the only employee that took it out for a beating either.

[Motorrad]

The 06 and up ones came with the 6 speed Allison. 

[Foxx4Beaver]

The 06 and up ones came with the 6 speed Allison. 

yeah, I have yet to drive an 8.1 with the 6 speed....I can only imagine how much better/refined it would be over the 4 speed...wrap around smiles!

[TJXK]

http://corvallis.craigslist.org/cto/4116323305.html

Is this what you are looking for?

[Motorrad]

http://corvallis.craigslist.org/cto/4116323305.html

Is this what you are looking for?

Yep. but more miles than Id like get get for that chunk o change.


this one is tempting.

asking is 21K  so I bet I can get it for in the teens.     and has 30,000 miles on it only.   6 speed allison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ7FFzWTPhQ

[81cr450]

Looks nice. The doors on those feel chinese quality, just when you shut them. GM's really great extended cab, go quad cab though & it'd be good. Give you something to not like about anything right 

Nice looking truck though

[Motorrad]

Looks nice. The doors on those feel chinese quality, just when you shut them. GM's really great extended cab, go quad cab though & it'd be good. Give you something to not like about anything right 

Nice looking truck though

dont want a quad cab.   too long WB.


I know what ya mean about the doors.  buddy had a 2008? 2009? truck.    Id always go back to shut the doors a second time, cuz then never went "thud" shut like all my 1972 chevys etc.   

[TJXK]

I'll never get an extended cab again if I can help it.  Trying to open a regular door and then a rear door up against a car in a parking lot to load some items is a huge pain and sometimes impossible.

[Motorrad]

cant get that bloody 2006 duramax out of my head


PS  found this entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67W8VlhHQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HigTTPPbmo

[81cr450]

I like where the chev blew.  at the end of that second clip.

Does make me think , dont believe everything on the net 

06-10 dmax would be good if you update the pistons & have some of that external balance weight adjusted inward I could post a pic or 2 if you want visualization

[Motorrad]

How was the 460?

Never been a ford motor fan.   they always use more fuel and make less power that the SBC and BBC equivilant.  But perhapse Im just stuck on what I have been told since I was 2 yrs old.

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/4185037112.html

[81cr450]

How was the 460?

Not bad ermmmhhh, the best ford engine. the rods are kind of lightweight & intake port angle is into the side of the cylinder instead of shooting into the middle like half the ports on a bbc  . Plenty of room for a stroker crank, the one you posted is to long
& an auto though. Thats actually one of the only ford motors I would use. If the trans is the c6 you got something but aod...
Go 70's high boy ford with a 460 &  you got something 

[Motorrad]

4x4  check

494 cubic inches.   check.

under 100K miles.  check.

affordable.   check.


thoughts??

going to run the vin number right now.


http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/ctd/4234734685.html

[sandblaster]

Wow, that looks like a great deal.