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Old 04-24-2012, 11:05 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Done with the first leg of three... averaged 57mpg over 845miles; I drove ~65mph and had the AC on at least 9 of the 13 hours. Today's stop is about 6000ft higher than my start. Somewhere around hour 9, the leading edge of my belly pan came off, turning it into a huge air catcher... I wasn't able to mess with it until ~150 miles later, when I took it off completely. Sometimes it's hard to judge if i'm going uphill slightly or not, but it did seem like the air catching belly pan had a significant impact on my FE.
Good numbers! Just out of curiosity, do you still have a functioning EGR valve? Any manifold clogging issues?
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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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