lear4406

Well we left out Sun. morning 11:00, weather in 70's. Me in the Challenger, my brother Jim in my Stealth. We stopped at the gas station filled the tanks up with 93 oct. $2.09 a gallon. Left Seneca SC with 190 miles of interstate in front of us. I have 3.91 rear gears with a 3-speed automatic. Not too bad for 60 mph. But when we hit I-85 it has 65-70 and to keep up I had to run 4000 rpm. We stopped after 80 miles to check everything out and to top off my tank. 8 gallons of NC high test $2.49 and only 10 miles to the gallon out of the 340. Man what a ride, I found out I have a leak in the rear main. It got bad the last half of the ride through Charlotte, where it looked like I was spraying for bugs. But once I got the r's down to a modest 2500, no trace of an oil cloud. I will be calling Mr. Kiesler about his 5-speed manual trannys. All in all a good trip, the stealth used 6 gallons and the Challenger 18 gallons of gas. I put a 1/2 a quart of 20W50 into the Challenger when I got to NC and it held 65 pounds of pressure at 3500 RPM's. The engine has 25000 miles since a rebuild in 1986. I think the car did well for it sitting for 4 years. We had a great time and now I can drive it around Kannapolis until I have it repainted.