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Old 02-23-2012, 12:45 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by DIY_GUY View Post
It took 15.322Gal to top back off holding the vent button in and purging it like I wanted to drive cross country
Search TDIClub for "ventectomy". You can pop that little button out in about 15 seconds and gain almost 2 gallons of fuel capacity (put a clean cloth in the neck first). More important to us is the more accurate fill-ups.
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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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