My Ranchero

[Ford Blue blood]

Sold the Ranchero to a good friend and fellow shipmate that has been lusting after it for three years!  I had been the a few shows with it, enjoyed the drives, got all the little "hickies" out and told him it is ready.  He came up to get the car. 

After giving him the run down on how the instruments would read on the road he took off for Mobile.  Got a call that evening that all was well and it was resting comfortably.  I told him I felt the speedometer was off a small bit.  He informed me it was off 3 MPH, slow.  As he drove back home from here another of our shipmates driving his 2023 Ranger was following.  He informed Jerry that they were actually going 77 MPH......yup, he ran that bad boy at 80 on the speedometer all the way down!  Got 17 MPG, 351C/AOD, I guess the build is OK?

[mustang6984]

Sounds like the build was REAL solid!
So...now what? Another project in the offing?   

[abe_lugo]

Congrats on the sale. 

For anyone with a smart phone there is a free speedometer app that works great. 

[59meteor]

Congrats on the sale. 

For anyone with a smart phone there is a free speedometer app that works great. 

Yes, I recently installed the speedometer app on my phone, mainly because I have 23 different rearend 3rd members that I swap out depending on what I am doing with my 59. The factory speedometer is pretty accurate with the "normal" 3.50 ratio, but I currently have the 2.91s in the car, for driving to shows/meets that are longer freeway trips, and I occasionally put in 4.33s, for dragstrip duty. With the 2.91s, the speedo and odometer read lower, and the 4.33s are quite a bit higher, not to mention here in Canada, all the  traffic speed limits are in metric, and with these older cars being in MPH and miles on the odometer, it is nice to know exactly how fast you are traveling, especially if there happens to be a Police car behind you!

[Fairlane62]

Wow, 23? I usually keep my swaps down to three or four 3rd members and that can be a chore. 

[Ford Blue blood]

No smart phone...the old fashion "follow me" works OK.  The accuracy of the new cars make them really close to correct.

[RICH MUISE]

Congrats, Bill. I'm glad I got to see it a few years ago.
Got a GPS speedometer in mine.....always accurate, doesn't care what the ratios are.

[thomasso]

Inexpensive GPS digital speedos on Ebay work great and plug into cigarette lighter.  Sets on dash and moves from car to car and to glove box when at shows.