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hondakidus
 Post subject: On the freeway
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 2:45 am 
What is the basic thing I would need to do to a LUV to get it going on the freeway without burning up the engine?
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bcg187
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 8:05 am 
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mine ran on the highway :D try a new header and carb. or hell,go to a junkyard and pull a tropper engine that has turbo.i'm going to do that for now :D

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77ssluv
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 1:51 pm 
a luv with a good stock motor shold do fine on the freeway. I had a taller set of tires off my garbage trailer and it would run 75-80 easy. of course it was wide open, but i dont think that made much of a diff.
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well my luv will run freeway speeds (60-70) all day long and i havent modifyed it much.

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if you have a low gear you can change the gearing to go better on the freeway.
when I had the 4:56 in mine it was wide open on the freeway like 55 or 60.
changed the center section to 3:73 and whoohoo down the road we went!

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im running 4.10s and in stock condition it would still do 85mph at about 5000rpm.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 8:21 am 
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hey man just get a bigger set of tires. mine ran great at 80 with some 15s on her.

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