They are laying on the garage floor, next to a pile of rear wheel drive parts.
It's 91 out (real-feel 111) so I took a little test run up I-95 for about 25 miles.
The coolant stayed at 185 for the trip and peaked at 202 while stopped.
I was displaying(X-gauge) my AFE (trip-current-MPG) on the way over to I-95.
The hills, lights and stop-n-go back streets weren't kind.
It started out at <8 MPG, but by the time I got to I-95 it was showing 20 MPG!
(My X-gauge letters 'AFE' stands for Average FE).
Once on I-95, I hit the reset. I must have been going down hill a little,
since the AFE started off in the 40s! So, I waited for a flat spot.
When the real time MPG was about 30, I hit the trip MPG reset again.
Got a good reset that time. The AFE started off at 30 MPG and dropped at the first hill.
But, at the next hill, the drop wasn't quite as much. So, I kept driving.
Slowly, the AFE got up to 33! It would move up and down a little
as I went up and down hills, but it was slooooowly moving up.
At the exit & turn-around, it took a little hit. But once I was on the way back,
it was at 33 pretty fast and slowly getting better! By the time I got back and
took my exit, it was up to 34.6 MPG!
Due to the traffic on I-95 today, I had to drive faster than I wanted to a few times.
But I think my average speed was about the same as the last run up I-95. (52 MPH & 33 MPG).
After deleting the mud flaps, I had expected to see between 0.5 & 1.0 MPG
improvement. So, the first test run seems to confirm there was some
improvement. It's likely that I'll never know exactly how much.
Humm, I wonder what the wind load is on that Ham antenna?
Anyways, my goal of 35 MPG highway seems to be within easy reach.
However, I still have to get another fill up and input my Tank off-set.
So right now, the only thing I really know with a little measure of certainty is,
there seems to have been some improvement..