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Old 07-15-2011, 03:36 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I ask the questions just because it will be terribly hard to draw any conclusions without knowing precisely what you are measuring, especially regarding efficiency. Are there any sanity checks you can do on the readings? i.e. measure the cars weight/aero/rolling resistance and see if actual acceleration matches predicted based on all the torque readings and number and configuration of loaded gears?
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