RE: Re: ihc-digest V5 #65

[renarac@domain.elided]

In a moment of clarity it hit me.....engine temperature....
Do you have a 180 degree thermostat or a 195? If an engine
runs too cool and it's in low RPM, then it's not going to burn
as efficiently. 
How amout adjusting the timing? What is it, retard to raise
exhaust temperatures?
How about an air damn like on semi's?

Just some ideas...

Owen Minor
Tacoma,WA
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   >From:    	<hofs@domain.elided>
   >To:        	<ihc@domain.elided>
   >Subject:    	Re: ihc-digest V5 #65
   >Date:    	Mon, Dec 15, 1997  9:59 AM
   >
   >> The other goodie here, is that I get about 9.5 mpg around town 
   >>     and travelling on the road without a trailer.  Now this is good, I 
   >>     got 11.5 WITH the trailer!  I couldn't believe it myself.  Miss 
   >>     that trailer,as I filled up today, took 35 gals to fill both tanks.
   >>     $40.  bummer, another week of work using up gas.
   >>     
   >>        Just had to vent with all the talk about towing.
   >>     
   >>
   >>     -Joel Brodsky
   >I think I mentioned in the past that with my Travelall, I consistently 
   >got about a mile a gallon better gas mileage when towing my 3500 or so 
   >pound trailer than when pulling nothing. I essentially drove the same 
   >speed in either situation. It had to have to do with the wind resistance 
   >of the Travelall caused by that square back and the wind stream creating 
   >a vacuum back there that was like an anchor. I later pulled the same 
   >trailer with an SSII and didn't get the same improvement in gas mileage. 
   >Damn, retrospect has made that Travelall the perfect vehicle. Kind of 
   >like my first father-in-law, everyone was probably relieved when he died, 
   >but 25 years later, my mother-in-law refers to him as her sainted first 
   >husband. I'm setting up a web page with some pictures of that Travelall 
   >winching up Surprise Canyon in Death Valley. When I get it up and 
   >running, I'll let the digest in on how to access it. You're not going to 
   >find a lot of pictures of Travelalls winching up Surprise anywhere else. 
   >John
   >
   >John Hofstetter
   >Life Member, National Rifle Association
   >Member, California Rifle and Pistol Association
   >Member, Sierra Macintosh Users Group  Member, MacTwain Macintosh Users 
   >Group
   >Charter Member, FRIENDS OF DEATH VALLEY   Member, Blue Ribbon Coalition
   >Life Member, Association of California School Administrators
   >Owner of 79 Scout Terra "It's a legend"
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