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Old 02-07-2015, 06:29 PM   #20 (permalink)
Vekke
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Siitin - '98 Seat Cordoba Vario
90 day: 58.56 mpg (US)

VW Lupo 3L --> 2L - '00 VolksWagen Lupo 3L
Diesel
90 day: 104.94 mpg (US)

A8 luxury fuel sipper - '97 Audi A8 1.2 TDI 6 speed manual
90 day: 64.64 mpg (US)

Audi A4B6 Avant Niistäjä - '02 Audi A4b6 1.9tdi 96kW 3L
90 day: 54.57 mpg (US)

Tourekki - '04 VW Touareg 2.5TDI R5 6 speed manual
90 day: 32.98 mpg (US)

A2 1.4TDI - '03 Audi A2 1.4 TDI
90 day: 45.68 mpg (US)

A2 1.4 LPG - '02 Audi A2 1.4 (75hp)
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Its all related can you see the effects in your fuel consumption or not.

I also have changed my roller skates bearings and it did have huge impact to skate speeds. Also when I modified my cars bearing it had a impact but its very difficult to measure specially if you change many things at the same time like I did last time. I think my bearings were these: ILQ 9 Pro Inline Skate Bearings | Skate Parts | K2 Skates 2014 | Shop

I did participate one roller skate marathon and my cheap market skates had highest downhill speeds as the pro skaters speeds were, Ofcourse I was little bit heavier than most skaters but generally no one was faster, even my rolls werent max hard like they should be for max speed.



Bigger/heavier the machine higher portion of fuel goes to friction losses and in my opinion the effect of the bearing friction increases.

On a car freespind is generally 10-17 seconds. on my Lupo I was able to get that freesping time over 60 seconds.

Now what you should remember that new bearings is not always best as testing has proven that cars new bearing can have so tigth seal that it actually slows down the bearings free roll time.

What you should also notice that free roll time is not necessary directly related to cars friction resistance, but I will take 60 seconds free roll bearings any time compared to that 20 second.

I believe you could easily find test results of that skate theme from free roll time vs coast distance tests?
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