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10-13-2023, 03:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
ECO-AKJ Focused on MPG Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Uphill from the river! Posts: 439 Marinator - '06 Mercury Mariner Premier 90 day: 20.05 mpg (US) SILVER BULLET - '19 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN GT 90 day: 19.54 mpg (US) Myrtle - Wife's JKU - '12 Jeep JK Unlimited Sport 90 day: 15.84 mpg (US) KK Copperhead - '05 Ford Escape XLS Thanks: 135 Thanked 136 Times in 107 Posts	Portable Wind Testing UPDATED to change to youtube link. Here is a neat way to test the aerodynamic effects of the wind going over the car. https://youtu.be/CJgeIr0lE2s PS, hopefully the link will work. __________________ Staying Focus'd on MPG Last edited by ECO-AKJ; 10-13-2023 at 04:34 PM..

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10-13-2023, 03:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
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SILVER BULLET - '19 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN GT
90 day: 19.54 mpg (US)

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10-13-2023, 07:51 PM	#4 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,687 Thanks: 8,143 Thanked 8,922 Times in 7,365 Posts	Pointlessly illustrative, __________________ . .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.

10-16-2023, 11:11 AM	#5 (permalink)
aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 16,306 Thanks: 24,436 Thanked 7,384 Times in 4,782 Posts	'testing' It's a good idea to have the 'test vehicle' IN FRONT of the motive source obstruction and turbulence. In past times, cars were tested on flatbed railroad cars, with the locomotive pushing from behind, giving a chance for 'clean air', and laminar flow. __________________ Photobucket album: http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/

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