Holiday Rambler
Ok, my better half n I are getting a mid 80's Preside tial...not sure of the year yet...(long story short it belonged to a friend) and we are TOTAL NEWBS What do we look for as far as chassis, engi...
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Roaderican wrote:
As a newb with n older HR what should i look out for n how would i go about lightening the load some for better fuel consumption....
Weight doesn't have much to do with fuel consumption, at highway speeds on mostly level roads. Most of your power is being used to push air around, and the way to reduce that is to slow down, because the power requirement goes up with approximately the cube of speed (linearly with road speed, and with the square of air speed).
10% reduction of weight will barely change fuel consumption, maybe 3%. But a 10% reduction in cruise speed could reduce fuel consumption as much as 23% other factors being equal.
