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Old 11-06-2014, 03:46 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dirtydave View Post
What if you have much higher RPM's? 2800 at 60MPH?
P&G should help even more, the worse the gearing. In my Del Sol, in places where I could cruise at ~30mpg steady state, I could get 50+mpg with aggressive P&G because of the huge losses from screaming down the highway at 4000+rpm with low load.
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