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Originally Posted by slowmover
Big change. A CTD is fairly oblivious about weight (to a point) but it's all to the good aero wise. Looking forward to what you come up with.
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Yeah, I kind of thought the same thing. 300 pounds to a cummins is not much, but the aero should be significant.
The other day I went to a store a few miles from me and was practicing the pulse and coast technique. Getting to this store there is some stop and go but there's a couple good stretches where it's about 50mph. (some good coast time) I did it the other day (with the rack) and the scangauge read 16.5 average mpg. I went to the same store today (without the rack) with the same coasting technique and when I got home the scangauge read average 18.0mpg.
Now granted, I might have been a little more careful with the go pedal today because of anticipated gains, but not much. It seems like there's an improvement, I'll have to get it on the hwy to really test it out.