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Did anyone get a price on a new Cummins engine, because a reman 4BT is north of $7K? How much bensin can you buy for that kind of money? How many 740T's can you buy for $7k?
Hi
I am in England so we might have a bit of a problem understanding
I run a 16 valve penta 2.5 on Gas Lpg Butane
I cant remember the last time i used petrol
You could use Propane from red bottle ? in england and transfer to the car a pump is about 100 pounds
I dont know if you get them in USA
in England you can get a big white tank 1000 lts its for a house and get the Gas from that
petrol is 1.28 a ltr and gas is .70 a ltr at a petrol station pump a big saving from a white tank even cheaper
last year in France Gas was .20 a ltr
so cheep as chips and about half the emissions of Petrol
Volvo UK sell cars that run on Gas or Petrol called dual fuel
I used to be on ecomodder. Look around there, lots of ideas.
As stated above, it's a square car. the coefficient of drag is high, and it's bigger than econo cars. (cd x area = drag).
The most overlooked (underlooked?) area is the underside of the car. Look at the nicer Lexus and Toyota cars for inspiration.
So simple in my book it doesn't need explanation....yet evidently somehow people think spending $8,968 for an engine on the ground, a couple of thousand more modding and installing, ass-ploding their gearbox from the massive torque and fixing that..so "save" 10% of a gallon per mile seems nothing short of insane
He asked what was possible, not what made the most sense.
What makes the most sense (largest rate of return) is to simply give the car a good stage zero, run high (ish) pressure in the tires, keep and empty trunk, and drive with the windows up.
This forum is largely about the biggest fun factor/what's possible, not what makes the most sense.
If we all did that, we would all drive beige Honda accords that we bought used with less than 100K on the clock. Drive it with the normal maintenance until the first major mechanical failure. Then go out and get another one with less than 100k and sell the broken down heap to some ricer enthusiast kid for more than it is worth.
No one drives a 25 year old car because it is 'sensible'. They are either crazy (as we all are on this forum), or poor.
I love thisHe asked what was possible, not what made the most sense.
What makes the most sense (largest rate of return) is to simply give the car a good stage zero, run high (ish) pressure in the tires, keep and empty trunk, and drive with the windows up.
This forum is largely about the biggest fun factor/what's possible, not what makes the most sense.
If we all did that, we would all drive beige Honda accords that we bought used with less than 100K on the clock. Drive it with the normal maintenance until the first major mechanical failure. Then go out and get another one with less than 100k and sell the broken down heap to some ricer enthusiast kid for more than it is worth.
No one drives a 25 year old car because it is 'sensible'. They are either crazy (as we all are on this forum), or poor.
I love this
One of the interesting things I read back in the day:
A slight nose-down ride is preferred, even with a perfectly smooth underside.
If the car is perfectly level, the underbody friction causes the air to "stack up" toward the rear, causing higher pressure and more drag.
So taking 500 pounds of spare parts and tools out of the back of my 88 765 will get me 2 more mpg?