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Old 09-02-2012, 09:31 PM   #38 (permalink)
KamperBob
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12% better FE from your short cap is a nice win.

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Originally Posted by AndyL View Post
Well some real world testing in... 32km highway round trip (3 secondary highways), with some blustery weather... Secondary highways, so wasn't fighting traffic, tried to keep accel/decel rates the same, cruise to keep the drift down...

Working off the dashboard lie-o-meter, here's the numbers:

Truck - no 5th, 13.2L/100
Truck & 5th - 21L/100
Truck w/ deflector & fifth 18.7L/100
Truck w/ deflector (duct tape to fill cab to deflector gap) & fifth 18.4L/100

Ran 2 tests of each configuration (except the duct tape - it only got a single test) was +/- 0.1L/100 on restest

I'll leave the duct tape off 5L of fuel on this upcoming week's run - isn't worth having to look at duct tape.
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