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Old 08-03-2014, 10:51 PM   #28 (permalink)
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SLOMOTO - '92 Honda Civic VX
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i don't think you would feel a difference in braking due to the gauge being run off the brake booster hose. what i wonder is if applying the brakes will cause the gauge to read slightly lower at those moments due to the brake booster diaphragm using most of the vacuum supplied to it. i'm not sure if it would show up or not, just curious.
The vacuum drops (rises, moves towards zero) as I apply the brakes.



I'm getting 19 in. Hg. at idle. That reading doesn't make any sense to me. I personally haven't checked the ignition timing, but I asked and paid to have it done at a dealership just after I completed the install.






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If my hypermiling in the Insight cancels out the effects of just one gap toothed git-er-done in his big dumb F250 dually with his inbred kids and pitbull hanging off the side rails in the back, glaring at me as they roll coal around me . . . . . then maybe there will be some gas left when my grand kids start to drive.
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