02-29-2020, 01:07 AM
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... "remote engine stopper". :-)
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Already been invented. 
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
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02-29-2020, 03:10 AM
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I've entertained the notion of leaving a message via heavy equipment sort of like this:
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02-29-2020, 11:48 AM
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The only problem I see is that the people getting that message don't seem to understand it.
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casual notes from the underground:There are some "experts" out there that in reality don't have a clue as to what they are doing.
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02-29-2020, 12:25 PM
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We got our first JEMS bucket truck at work this month. The acronym stands for Jobsite engine management system.
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Gas or diesel engines?
I was helping a friend get her car get towed out of a snowmobile trail recently (don't ask!). The diesel flatbed/winch truck shut off automatically while we were all standing around talking.
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02-29-2020, 01:07 PM
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Owning a 20x102mm is too much paper work, considering you can get a semiauto 50bmg in most states.
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1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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03-03-2020, 09:07 PM
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It's all about Diesel
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I was helping a friend get her car get towed out of a snowmobile trail recently (don't ask!). The diesel flatbed/winch truck shut off automatically while we were all standing around talking.
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IIRC it had already been implemented by Cummins to the B6.7 engine, but I'm unaware of applications other than the Ram trucks being fitted with this functionality. |
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03-04-2020, 11:08 AM
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Mandated by the state of California. Pretty much everything commercial diesel does it after 2015. Unsure of private installs, but my neighbors 2020 chevy does it too.
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03-06-2020, 04:01 PM
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It's all about Diesel
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Unsure of private installs, but my neighbors 2020 chevy does it too.
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Economics of scale might be pushing the automakers to also fit it to vehicles meant to the average Joe instead of keeping it a fleet-only feature, not to mention the CAFE targets. |
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03-06-2020, 04:17 PM
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03-07-2020, 08:44 PM
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I'm way more comfortable with letting the economic sense speak for itself than for some bureaucratic-enforced mandate.
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Except people who idle SUVs are immune to economic sense. Besides, I've never seen a no-idling area that cared about saving fuel. It's about the people in the area of these idling SUVs that aren't in air-conditioned, cabin air filtered comfort. They're outside, on foot, sucking down the fumes. Hell, I worked at a hospital once that had an HVAC intake near the loading dock. It was a no-idling area.
As stupid as idling is, no-idling areas aren't about crusading for higher mpgs, they're essentially about property rights and workplace protections. Remember smoking sections in restaurants? Yeah, workers shouldn't have to breathe customers' exhaust fumes either just because the customers are morons.
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Transmission type Efficiency
Manual neutral engine off.100% @∞MPG <----- Fun Fact.
Manual 1:1 gear ratio .......98%
CVT belt ............................88%
Automatic .........................86%
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