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freebeard · 11-09-2022, 11:59 PM

I'd look critically at the present tires. Any excuse to go to a larger tire, or not?

The other half of the equation, from power delivered to the tires contact patch, is what it takes to punch a hole in the air. ....and close it again. How many feet of boat tail could you tolerate?

For comparison -- in the 1980s I put a fresh rebuild in my 1961 VW Type II panel van (1600, dual Solexes, 4 into 1 extractor exhaust) and drove 60 miles through the Coast Range at 55MPH. It took exactly 2 gallons, so suggesting 30 MPG. It cruised at 75 thereafter (gas pressurized shocks and quartz-halogen headlights).

Back in the last decade, I turned it into money to put into the Superbeetle.

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,557 Thanks: 8,092 Thanked 8,882 Times in 7,329 Posts	I'd look critically at the present tires. Any excuse to go to a larger tire, or not? The other half of the equation, from power delivered to the tires contact patch, is what it takes to punch a hole in the air. ....and close it again. How many feet of boat tail could you tolerate? For comparison -- in the 1980s I put a fresh rebuild in my 1961 VW Type II panel van (1600, dual Solexes, 4 into 1 extractor exhaust) and drove 60 miles through the Coast Range at 55MPH. It took exactly 2 gallons, so suggesting 30 MPG. It cruised at 75 thereafter (gas pressurized shocks and quartz-halogen headlights). Back in the last decade, I turned it into money to put into the Superbeetle. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ____________________ . .Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar --You can't say that is a coincidence.