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Old 03-08-2011, 01:15 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Part 4 is out with nice results. Fuel economy "appears" to have improved by 5% with a nice increase in power.

http://autospeed.com/cms/A_112228/article.html
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.

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