Christ -
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Originally Posted by Christ
Carlos - you turning into a Palmear on us?
I really can't believe I missed this when it was posted. There was mention of this at the "engineering" fair (obvious exaggeration on the finger quotes, there.) that we had when I was in high school. The mention was extinguished immediately when anyone who knew ANYTHING about street cars (basically, myself, the auto shop teacher, and a few others who raced since they were like... 5.) spoke up and noted the utter stupidity of the sheer thought that this could ever exist in a streetable environment.
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Hee hee hee, I don't think it gets 376 MPG, but maybe that's because I don't use Palmolive for my hands,
. I just want to know what they did. If the car "burned oil" to displace fuel consumption, then that's funny because they exploited a loophole, i.e. the referees probably didn't check the dipstick after the run. This is assuming that burning the oil is "the gimmick".
Even with scams, there's usually a "kernel of truth" that advances one's knowledge.
CarloSW2