Hey, wait...doesn't anyone remember "burst-driving"? You run the car up
around 70-80 mph or so and then cut the engine and coast back down to 10 mph,
start the car again and slowly accelerate back up to 70-80 and cut the engine
and coast, etc, etc, etc. Not the most pleasant way to get anywhere, but I
seem to remember these wildly high mileage contests in Popular Mechanics &
Popular Science in the 70's, probably at the height of the oil crisis.
Over-inflated bald tires, special gearing and burst-driving was the key.
I actually used this technique to drive home at 3 AM on the NJ TPK with a
hole in my radiator and a blown head gasket. I used burst driving and drove
on 3 cylinders from spigot to spigot filling up the radiator wherever I
could. Boy was that little Datsun 210 unhappy when I finally got home!!!
Donny V
1978 MGB
In a message dated 3/13/2003 9:35:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ARoman4047@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 3/13/03 9:04:30 PM, rberens@sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> << it says, driving hard 28 MPG, attainable 35/37, and lastly it says a
> >"unmodified" but using special driving techniques it attained 71.02 MPG, I
> have
> >no idea what special driving techniques means, >>
>
> Second gear starting, then top gear come hell or clattering valves.
> NO braking on down hills - Gots to be picking up momentum...Fill
> those tires to the max; you don't want a footprint, you want a
> pinpoint...
>
> Also depends on where the MPG is measured. At a steady 40-45
> mph or so (this is where the old Mobil Economy Run runners got
> their best mileage), your mileage 'could' be in that range, at that
> speed, not the average getting to it...
>
> Tony in NJ
> W.A.S.T.E.
>
> Tony in NJ
> W.A.S.T.E.
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