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Originally Posted by jdgFirefly
Your apples to apples test wouldn't do the lighter flywheel any justice. It would be good to test the extra drag on the bearings due to the extra 10lb but the real energy savings will be seen during acceleration. Also if the flywheel changes your engines stall speed it may cause you to drive in a different gear at a given speed. If the test is at that given speed you will get different resulted. So what I'm trying to say is that results of a single set of tests may vary from what you get in day to day driving.
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My purposes are strictly to find out if a lighter flywheel will make more mpg cruising at 70mph in my 97 honda civic dx with a vx motor and crx hf gearing.
this isn't my day to day driving but I take long cross country trips and want to get better gas mileage at 70mph while doing so.
I'm not looking for a 2 week test to compare day to day driving, i want an average mpg over a particular mile stretch of road at 70mph. LOL,
Also I thought with a manual car, engine rpm, gear and final drive as well as tire diameter determined speed?....anyways.