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YKYAEM when getting stuck on a sandy beach with the ocean tide threatening to swallow your car you can't help but wonder about the impact the attempts to get out of the sand will have on that trip's FE. Oh, and the pain of letting air out of the tires to gain more traction!!!
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Reason: grammar, man, grammar...
The first thing you notice about this picture is that he has only gone about 2 miles and is on empty... on a motorcycle
Or think "damn, he made a kilotank on a motorcycle "
then "if he is on em.com he will discover that he can't register his kilotank with one digit after the point "
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after watching that video you're excited about seeing the boattail on a drag car!
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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
... when your abomination of a full size Buick w/a V6 engine(that you REALLY wish you could afford to drive something more efficient... and ah... agile than...) decides to run on 4.5 cylinders instead of 6--and you are pleased about it--because its MPG jumps substantially... even if it has lost all its pep...
(Despite the... horrible brain drilling sound.)
... you have moved to the side of the road to allow faster cars to pass and think that by keeping the tires on the painted stripe on the edge of the road you're reducing the rolling resistance and thereby improving FE...
... you have moved to the side of the road to allow faster cars to pass and think that by keeping the tires on the painted stripe on the edge of the road you're reducing the rolling resistance and thereby improving FE...
I have run though that idea several times on long drives
You know you're an ecomodder when 60 mph (~100 km/h) feels "fast".
If only I could get away with going 40 everywhere. Maybe having to go 50-60 mph to keep up on the highways everywhere here is bad, but at least I can spend a lot of time in overdrive.
60 did seem really fast when I started driving after only riding a bicycle for a while!
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
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