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Ian,
That post of mine was an answer to a strictly academic puzzle posed by Kubark, which involved a car running (on bottled oxygen or chemical oxygen generators?) in a vacuum.
Beaver,
I'm very sorry to say that this appears to be a "dead project", but perhaps I can answer some of your questions.
As I understand it, the intermediate goal was to have a datalogger that gathers enough data to infer road load, and measure fuel consumption. This is enough to plot BSFC versus various conditions, including throttle position, RPM, engine temperature, etc. You could also plot road load versus time. Analyzing your shift pattern and your commute in this detail would be extremely helpful.
Someday, this might lead to development of a real-time BSFC gauge. That, plus a road load gauge, would be the holy grail of instrumention.
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