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ShinerBock
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Jan 25, 2018

2019 GM trucks get smarter fuel-saving cylinder deactivation

Interesting bit of tech in the new GM V8s to increase fuel economy. These definitely aren't your traditional V8s with all of the added moving parts and computers needed to operate them. It is al...
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ShinerBock
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Jan 25, 2018
1995brave wrote:
Better than the original try with the Cadillac engines.



Yeah, that was one idea that was way ahead of it's time and did not have the technology to support it. Thankfully computer processing has vastly increased in speed and multitasking since then that it can handle the fraction of a second timing events needed for today's engines.

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