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Old 09-22-2011, 06:39 PM   #10 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Originally Posted by euromodder View Post
Here you go :

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ute-14571.html

And more recently, starting here (links to the relevant message):
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post257453

And that's bump starting it.
Thanks much for the link. What did you think? I thought his analysis was all wet, as several pointed out. The best is when he finally comes back into the discussion and argues for an "engineer's" theoretical analysis--utterly wrong as to BSFC maps--and uses it against ABA data for the effectiveness of the P&G technique. I'm sure there are more of these, but I tested P&G with engine on versus steady state at identical speeds on the freeway and found a very significant FE benefit for P&G. Here's the link. But on his original posting about pollution, his car was atypical, a lean burn VX, and his methods were not great while his data was never reported to the forum. Not at all persuasive, seems to me.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.




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