Blazer>Explorer anyday. My brother has a 97 4 door. I dont even like to drive it,let alone drive it in the mud.

 

Ford cannot make a v6. nuff said.

 

I think this might give you an idea on how well an Explorer can do compared to a Blazer... lol.

 

Blazers weren't meant to be racing trucks... the Xtreme should be a little quicker but again the Lumina has no weight to it. If you sneeze on a Lumina you can give it a door ding dent!! A friend of mine had one and it was made out of a tuna fish can or something... the Blazers a little ... no, a lot heavier I believe?

Just food for thought.

 

Yea my blazer is no speed demon either. If my motor ever dies I'm just going to swap in a v8.

 

My Blazer is getting a V8 swap before the 4.3 dies... Then I'll have a nice go-kart engine.... But that might have to wait, depending on what the Honda dealership tells me about getting my quad, lol

 

i would hink the gears in the lumina would be different than a blazer and that can change everything, i dont think my blazer is a beast but i have no problem w/ getting going when i need to. i dont know what is can get up to because it shuts off at 98 but it still gaining when it shuts off, so i wouldn't considerit slow

 

The gears in a Lumina are taller than the average gearing in a Blazer.

Most Lumina's had 3.23's or 3.08s and I think some 2.xx were put out...

 

It's all comparable to what you are used to, but still I am surprised by so many saying the Blazer is slow, where I don't have a large complaint about it. The Z was my daily driver for years, it put down 372hp/374tqbefore Spray, I figured I would bitch about the Blazer the way I bitch about the wifes RSX (god is that thing slow...and torqueless too), but surprisingly I think the Blazer is torquey enough that it doesn't feel bad at all. I mean I can't pull out at times the Z would have me out in traffic or expect to show up that person in the lane that ends after a light, but it's a heavy truck, I didn't expect it to run a quarter well. Would I love it to be faster, well hell yea and I am considering an LS1swap in the future, but for a DD, it does me just fine for now. And on the Explorer side, I drive a co-workers explorer a lot when we go out to lunch and that thing is not peppy at all, the blazer feels much stronger.

Good thing about theBlazer though,the Z has only been out twice since I got the Blazer and damn it hasn't felt this strong since the header/exhaust swap, I'm loven that feeling again.

 

Exploders aren't bad when they've got the V8... But still feels kind of sluggish compared to my Blazer...