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Originally Posted by NachtRitter
Picked up a few supplies today from storage... a big sheet of coroplast (had saved it from the last election) and a plastic water heater drain pan... I'd used one of those drain pans as a rear wheel skirt on my Honda VX with decent looking results... might be *just* big enough to fit the wheel arch of the Jetta too. Will pick up some more supplies tomorrow.
Played around with Google Earth some more. Plotted two significantly different routes... one across the center of the US and one going across a bit more southerly. The elevation profiles:
Central (same as posted before):
Southerly:
Initial glance makes the southerly route look better (max altitude is 7340ft on this route while the other route has a max altitude of 8520ft). But then there are other details that seem to favor the central route (26,675ft of climbing on the central route vs 28,366ft of climbing on the southerly route; 1931mi for central vs 2159mi for southerly... worth at least 3 hours assuming the same avg speed on each route). Argh! Too much information!!  |
I've driven probably every major route to the west coast, and honestly ( if you are pleasure cruising ) run the route that you will have the most fun on. MPG wise, it won't even matter; you adjust for the conditions. I personally hate I70 across for a truck, love it in a car ( no scales to cross ), I40 across is my favorite lane, I20 and I10 across will run you through the heart of Texas and it's looonnngggg. I didn't read where your end point will be, so I am being very general. Oh, I80 across will put you through the wind tunnel that is Nebraska. Nothing out there.
I know this may sound off topic, but is your suspension at stock ride height or is it lowered?