sorry about that, i hit tab then enter and it cut off my post...

anyway, i lost my liscense for 6 mos. because i was clocked doing 128 down a strip of road about 1/2 mile long drag racing this camaro. he was clocked somewhere in the range of 110 and got careless driving instead of drag racing.

you need to take it to a dealer and have them mess with the timing, thats what is holding your engine back and feeling like you have no extra power.

 

Anyone know if there is a speed and/or rev limiter on the 2001s?

 

I don't know what kind of problems you are having. Just last week I had mine up to a 100 fairly easy, after that it takes a lil while to pick up but also on this day it was very windy and the wind was practically trying to blow me off the road so I wasn't wanting to go much faster. I've hit 115 a couple times and yes it took a while (I'm guessing a mile or so) but it wasn't that hard. Just gotta leave it out of OD.
BTW, according to the overhead console computer I was still getting 7mpg at 115.

 

I don't know mine isn't that fast but It does have power until it gets to overdrive then it doens't seem to have any. Without OD it redlines it though.

I do have 64k miles on it and haven't done the dist. cap and rotor and inginition wires like I was supposed to at 60k so maybe that has something to do with it but I doubt it as it seems to be running fine.

 

About every 6 weeks or so I take my truck out and run it up to around 115-120 for about 3 miles just to clean it out. After I clean it out it seems to run better and it gets better gas mileage for a few days. My engine and tranny have 245,000 miles on them and I am a firm beleiver to doing this has helped keep my truck alive.

 

My guess is you have 4.10 gears, is that correct? If so that is why it would redline. I have 3.55s and yes OD sucks when it comes to power on top speed.

 

Yes I do have 4:10 gears that is why It didn't even cross my mind though I don't know how I didn't think about it but thats why it redlines.

 

Back around Easter maybe I got mine up to 90 or so. Real stable, but I came up on another car and had to get out of it. This was on I-95 in North Carolina at about 3:00 AM. PA has spots where you can open it up a little, DE too, MD & VA you really have to watch it, then comes NC: The Hammer Down State! More or less straight, relatively flat, and in the middle of the night pitch black! I've even opened up the wifes mini-van down there.

99 Sport QC 2WD 5.2 auto

 

lol good ol minivans ....NOT!! I've put my ram up to 110 with ease(before i got it "tuned")...Im sure i could have gone faster, haven't really maxed out..

 

dude. A 302 in a truck as light as a Ranger is not lame. I have seen quite a few high 12 sec 302 Rangers. It is beliveable.