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Old 09-02-2008, 02:49 PM   #5 (permalink)
Bicycle Bob
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When you use the starter, the engine gets a shot of rich mixture. Hypermilers who coast to a stop will re-start the engine with the clutch and idle for several seconds to avoid that. It takes good instrumentation to find out the optimum time on a given vehicle.
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