View Single Post
Old 12-24-2010, 09:04 PM   #8 (permalink)
moTthediesel
Turbo Lurker
 
moTthediesel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Northern NY, 1k Islands
Posts: 62

VonBondo - '65 Porsche 356SC Coupe
Thanks: 0
Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by t vago View Post
Ah.. No. You can't really estimate how much fuel is being burned with EGT. Temperature is not directly dependent on the amount of fuel. You want to keep your EGTs high, but not so high that engine parts start to break.
Now that - I'm not buying Driving in any given gear, give me an example of a way you could increase your EGT temps without burning more fuel? Maybe slowing the revs to the point where it's shaking like a wet dog would do it, but accelerating or hill climbing is the more typical way of making the needle climb. And either of those situations certainly involve burning more fuel, do they not?
  Reply With Quote