Got in yesterday afternoon.
Once I'd left Battle Mountain I was fully engaged with family and friends,and no opportunity for checking in.
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While the wind tunnel experience was great,it wasn't so with the weather.
I was driving in remnants of three named storms,Dolly,Norbert,and Odile.There was never a day when I didn't encounter significant winds and sometimes rain.
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A breakdown of the trip is:
*4,873 miles total gross
*152.469 gallons regular unleaded
*31.96 mpg total gross
*$527.47 total fuel cost
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*'Trash' mileage (camping,to and from raceways,trips for groceries,etc.) 226 miles
*'trash' gallons 9.674
*'trash mpg 23.361
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*Gross 'highway' distance, 4,647 miles
*142.795 gallons consumed
*32.543 mpg total 'highway'
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*65-mph 'highway' total gross distance,3,668 miles
*109.689 gallons
*33.439 mpg total gross
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*65-mph 'highway' distance (minus Fernley,Nevada to Coachella,California:629-miles with stop and go all the way down HW-195,a stop at Scaled Composites,Orange county traffic,cold restarts,etc.),3,039 miles
*88.904 gallons consumed
*34.182 mpg average
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*Lowest 65-mph tank: 28.864 mpg,Tucson,Arizona to Dona Ana (Las Cruces) New Mexico (Hurricane Odile)
*Highest 65-mph tank,37.567 mpg,Battle Mountain,Nevada to Fernley,Nevada.
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*Lowest 75-mph tank,28.719 mpg,Santa Rosa,New Mexico to Denton,Texas
*Highest 75-mph tank,30.819 mpg,Denton,Texas to Santa Rosa,New Mexico
*Two-tank 75-mph average,29.733 mpg.
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* I have no idea what the impact of losing 7-feet of belly meant to mpg.
*The damaged front skirt never quite laid down flat against the body after my attempts to straighten it at Ogden.
*Road construction foiled constant-speed driving.
*Overnight stays on the same tank meant cold-starts when I finally got back underway.
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*Dozens of folks asked about the project.
*Many,many photographs were taken.
*A friend of the inventor of AT Dynamics' Trailer Tail stopped by at Gary's for a chat and photos.
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*I got a bunch of boat tail photos at Bonneville.
*Thanks again to Freebeard.
*Micky Thompson's son,Danny went 421-mph in the family streamliner.
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*I got a bunch of boat tail photos at the IHPVA Speed Trials.
*The girls went 64-72-mph in their streamliners.
*One of the Delft University guys hit over 80-mph.
*The '90-mph' Liverpool team won't be there 'til in the future.
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*Highway Patrol pursued and 'looked' but nothing more than that.
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*If I'd known 4-months ago, what I know now,I would have taken 4-months off and prepared some 'toys' for DARKO.
*You can do a 'run' in 4-minutes.
*With quick attachments,you could do a lot of test iterations in an hour.
*I'd like to go back.
With 372,442 miles on the T-100 now,I don't know if it would be with the truck.
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*DARKO's invoice was in the mailbox when I got home.I'm going to go ahead and pay it.
*Let's think about getting another member to the tunnel.
*Thanks again for all the encouragement,support,and well-wishing.
PS I forgot to mention,I've got the thumb drive with 15-minutes of DARKO video.I could use some help figuring out how to get the 'Spirit of EcoModder.com on You-Tube.