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Old 01-05-2011, 11:57 PM   #25 (permalink)
abently
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Less fuel being pumped into the engine yields less BTU's of energy available per revolution of the engine.
Correct, refer back to the first post. If you need say 8kw of power to cruise at 60km/hr and that originally occurred at 1500rpm, you are now going to need to cruise at say 1700rpm during lean-burn to output the same amount of power (energy) and therefore cruise at 60km/hr.

Now tell me something I don't know.
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