Our F85 Power Tour Project

[PhillipM]

The motor is a mid 70's Olds 455, bored 40 over with a mild stage 1 cam. The carb is a quadrajet and we are running a 4.11 gear. We averaged 18 mpg with a high of 21 and a low of 15. The real key to getting the mpg's up with the carb is to not run too low of an rpm at cruise. We ran about 2k rpm at our cruising speed of 70, and it worked out pretty well. I'm sure with some more tweaking it could have done better but we were pretty happy.



As for the SW failure, the coupler at the top of the shock was removed and was found to not have loctite on it. air ride has already checked their production line and have found that all of them had loctite.. so it sounds like a fluke deal. We took the rest apart and made sure that there was loctite on them. We are not sure if someone on our side took it off or if it came from the factory like that but either way we are safe now.