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Originally Posted by Cobb

Weight seems to have little to no effect on mpg with this car. It all seems aero depended. The enginer kit was heavy enough, then I use to carry a large sub box with 2 12 inch sub woofers that weights about 75 lbs each. It seems the lower I could get the car with weight or lack of suspension the better the mpg was and less effected by speed.

...actually, you were recovering energy from inertia during decelerations.