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Re: [T3] Gas mileage experiments


I think from experience at least 65, 60 is definately too slow to go up
mountains... 70 seems like a sweet spot to me and at 75 the car seems to be
really doing some work.

Keith


> > The other problem is that at lower speeds your not up far enough on the
HP
> > curve to get up the hills as easily.  I have about 130Kmi of gas mileage
> > records for my Square... as well as records for all the other cars Ive
> > owned.
>
> Yeah, it would be best to be somewhere "over the top" of the HP power
curve.
> Any idea where that would put us in speed?
>
> -- 
> *******************************
> Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> *******************************


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