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[Eye of the Tiger]

So if I put a dual carb intake on Ranger

https://www.ebay.com/p/Ford-Pinto-2-0l-2000cc-Edelbrock-Fp-1-Aluminum-2x1-Intake-Manifold/1237186002?iid=254277993958&rt=nc

what carburetors would I use?

[shp4man]

So if I put a dual carb intake on Ranger

https://www.ebay.com/p/Ford-Pinto-2-0l-2000cc-Edelbrock-Fp-1-Aluminum-2x1-Intake-Manifold/1237186002?iid=254277993958&rt=nc

what carburetors would I use?

Buy junkyard 302 and auto trans. Stuff in Ranger. Have fun until rear end explodes.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Buy junkyard 302 and auto trans. Stuff in Ranger. Have fun until rear end explodes.

Yeah, that's a thing, too.

[Eye of the Tiger]

I just got back from a night on the town in Ranger, and I have to say it is just too cool to sell for a piddly $700.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Ranger has so much more low end torque than Dakota, it's stupid. It will happily idle along in OD at 35 MPH, despite the warnings on the sun visor.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Drove Dakota today. Smooth ride, quiet, AC, stereo, but feels so much slower than Ranger. Can't decide which to sell.

[MrH]

Both.  Sell Fiesta.  Buy Doge Van + Exocet.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Both.  Sell Fiesta.  Buy Doge Van + Exocet.

No sell Festiva

[Eye of the Tiger]

Propposed garage:

La Fiesta for mpg
Cheby Venture/Pontiac Montana for doge, towing (3500#), and road tripz
Ford Ranger for kicks

[HurricaneSteve]

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cto?query=mercedes+diesel&auto_title_status=1

Any of these jump out?

[Eye of the Tiger]

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cto?query=mercedes+diesel&auto_title_status=1

Any of these jump out?

I bought a Mercedes W123 diesel repair manual so I don't actually have to own one.

[Eye of the Tiger]

I still like Venture/Montana. For camping, remove rear seat, keep two middle seats, which fold forward to make the floor into a bed. Curb weight of 3800# means it's lighter than most minivans, the gearing of the 4spd transaxle is super tall, and 3400 V6 in not awful except intake gaskets. Should be able to beat the 24 MPG highway rating.

[93JC]

Everything about the Venture/Montana is shite. They were not nice whatsoever, right from the get-go. They sold on $/lb, or $/ft³.

[Submariner]

Everything about the Venture/Montana is shite. They were not nice whatsoever, right from the get-go. They sold on $/lb, or $/ft³.

A friends mom had one.  The passenger side power door partially fell off the hinges, while driving, at 40k miles.  I think it was the first iteration of that utilitarian cancer, not the ugly, bulbous one that followed.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Everything about the Venture/Montana is shite. They were not nice whatsoever, right from the get-go. They sold on $/lb, or $/ft³.

In that case, literally every minivan is shite.

[CaminoRacer]

My grandparents had a Pontiac Montana. We were in it during a thunderstorm and it was the loudest thing I've ever heard, due to the metal roof and lack of structure/stiffness.

[Eye of the Tiger]

My grandparents one time. We were in it during a thunderstorm and it was the loudest thing I've ever heard, due to the metal roof and lack of structure/stiffness.

What a Chevy Vanture?

[Submariner]

What a Chevy Vanture?

A Chevy express with a transverse FWD 3.4l pooprod conversion.

[Eye of the Tiger]

A Chevy express with a transverse FWD 3.4l pooprod conversion.

[shp4man]

Godamn right....

[MrH]

My grandparents one time. We were in it during a thunderstorm and it was the loudest thing I've ever heard, due to the metal roof and lack of structure/stiffness.

We are 90% sure lightning struck the top of our 1987 Dodge Caravan in the middle of a thunderstorm.  Everybody was poopin bricks.

[CaminoRacer]

What a Chevy Vanture?

Montana.

I don't know what the original sentence was attempting to say.

[93JC]

In that case, literally every minivan is shite.

No, every other van on the market was better.

[MrH]

Get the Warner Brothers edition of the Chevy Venture.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Get the Warner Brothers edition of the Chevy Venture.

I wish.
Or a Nautica Mercury Villager.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Montana.

I don't know what the original sentence was attempting to say.

[Eye of the Tiger]

No, every other van on the market was better.

Ford Freewindstar, are you joking?

[93JC]

Second-gen Windstar was better.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Second-gen Windstar was better.

... at being a piece of shit

[Laconian]

Oh yeah, I miss the days when Ford thought that naming cars with common suffixes would shore up their shitty sales. Why didn't we get a Freestang?