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Originally Posted by Too Many Projects
The first thing you'll want to do is install an overdrive trans. A shop I worked at in the 80's had one just like it for a shop truck and it didn't mater if it was empty or overloaded, it got 8 mpg with that carbureted 454 and 4.10 gears.
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You could have shut it off and coasted and would have gotten 8 mpg with that configuration.
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