V10 gas towing fuel economy
For those of you towing 5th wheel RV trailers in the 13,000 to 16,000lbs gross trailer weight rating with Ford gas V10's, what are you seeing for fuel economy?
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marcsbigfoot20b27 wrote:Turtle n Peeps wrote:06Fargo wrote:
Thanks for your responses so far -
I forgot to also ask what your truck's empty mpg averaged?
What if a guy had a V10, normalized for high altitude with a turbo kit vs. a late model smogdiesel?
A turbo packs more air in the cylinder. Since a gas engine likes to run stoichiometric guess what it will pull in with it?
Yep; that liquid stuff that costs a lot. Depending on how much boost you run it can pull in twice the amount of that liquid stuff, or even more.
But a cylinder stuffed with more fuel/air will net more power from the same fuel due to the higher compression....so you gain more power per fuel.
You still need to fight detonation (ping).
