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Old 09-06-2018, 02:49 PM   #7 (permalink)
arcosine
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sc1 - '98 saturn sc1
Team Saturn
90 day: 43.17 mpg (US)

Airplane Bike - '11 home built Carp line Tour

rans - '97 rans tailwind

tractor - '66 International Cub cadet 129

2002 Space Odyssey - '02 Honda Odyssey EX-L
90 day: 28.25 mpg (US)

red bug - '00 VW beetle TDI

big tractor - '66 ford 3400

red vw - '00 VW new beetle TDI
90 day: 58.42 mpg (US)

RV - '88 Winnebago LeSharo
90 day: 16.67 mpg (US)
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Any performance cam will lower your gas mileage (period). If you are going for economy and not performance then there is no need to port the heads, since economy driving is done at low RPMs and velocities are low. In fact trying to port the exhaust may destroy the anti flow back and scavenging that is inherent in most exhaust port designs. Just keep your old cam and that will save more money than any new cam and porting will make up in mpg.
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