This is how my old Saab 93, 3 cylinder, got great mileage. They had
"freewheeling", you could turn a handle and when you let off the gas,
the clutch would open the connection. You would get going as fast as you
deemed "prudent" on the interstate and then let off, allowing the engine
to go back to its infamous, 2 cycle idle, while you travelled at 70mph.
Thnx Thom
DEVierling@aol.com wrote:
>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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