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[Re: Reiss]
#254353 11/05/12 06:13 PM 11/05/12 06:13 PM |
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn Karl_Brogger
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Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn | Balls. 10.43mpg on the first tank. Ouch.
I'm boatless.
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[Re: Reiss]
#254373 11/06/12 10:03 AM 11/06/12 10:03 AM |
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | Yeahbut...you had a Tailwind Mike!
And you probably went fast enough to get that trailer planing!
Remember, Karl's also hauling his new custom toy box, wich is bigger than my first dorm room!
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[Re: Karl_Brogger]
#254374 11/06/12 10:04 AM 11/06/12 10:04 AM |
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | Balls. 10.43mpg on the first tank. Ouch. How cold is it? Cold air will kill your gas mileage.
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#254375 11/06/12 10:20 AM 11/06/12 10:20 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA David Ingram
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Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA | Yeahbut...you had a Tailwind Mike!
And you probably went fast enough to get that trailer planing!
Remember, Karl's also hauling his new custom toy box, wich is bigger than my first dorm room! That's 7 HEAVY F18's and Karl is towing 3 light weight F16's. Even with the Cummings it is still a Dodge Karl, you only have yourself to blame.
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[Re: Reiss]
#254378 11/06/12 10:36 AM 11/06/12 10:36 AM |
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Posts: 712 | 65mph and there was a hill or two in between. Oh yeah and a ditch that we like to never got thru.. Ford PowerStroke Diesel rocks!!
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[Re: Reiss]
#254380 11/06/12 11:05 AM 11/06/12 11:05 AM |
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn Karl_Brogger
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Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn | 14mph headwind..... That and I was going a bit faster than I probably should've been. Much over 70 and that thing just gets into the wrong rpm range and the mileage just tanks. Plus I think we've switched to winter fuel up here already. I know gasoline has.
Best I've ever done was 8 cats on one trailer and I pulled just shy of 13mpg. That was with a 24' enclosed though. The windage on these things is just wretched.
I'm boatless.
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#254381 11/06/12 11:06 AM 11/06/12 11:06 AM |
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn Karl_Brogger
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Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn | Ford PowerStroke Diesel rocks!! I wouldn't go that far.
I'm boatless.
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[Re: Karl_Brogger]
#254384 11/06/12 12:27 PM 11/06/12 12:27 PM |
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Posts: 3,224 Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Ford PowerStroke Diesel rocks!! I wouldn't go that far. I will say that Krantz's Van is about the only road legal Ford I'd consider owning.
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[Re: Reiss]
#254415 11/06/12 10:07 PM 11/06/12 10:07 PM |
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Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn | 11.84mpg, lose the nasty headwind, drop 3mph and things are a bit more reasonable.
Should be there before 2pm. Way earlier if we don't stop for breakfast.
I'm boatless.
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#254438 11/07/12 03:47 PM 11/07/12 03:47 PM | xanderwess
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[Re: Reiss]
#254455 11/08/12 09:21 AM 11/08/12 09:21 AM |
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn Karl_Brogger
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Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn | That is so strange, and proof the world is way too small.
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#254457 11/08/12 09:45 AM 11/08/12 09:45 AM |
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 554 Boston, Ma Jeff.Dusek
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Posts: 554 Boston, Ma | Good luck to all those who are sailing the event, the snow storm here in Mass last night really made me wish I was joining you!
Anyone want to make predictions?
My top three: 1. Newberry/Casey: Lots of experience and recent time in the boat 2. Easton/Burd: Coming off a top ten at F18 worlds, but forecast looks light for a big team 3. Reiss/Chu: Lots of F16 experience here, and well suited to a light event
Other teams that look super fast: Ravi Parent/Dalton Tebo: Ravi was impressive in Hyannis, and Dalton is a straight up super crew Randy Smyth/Joe Bello: Randy is a legend, and Joe is a solid crew coming off a nice worlds Enrique Figueroa: Another legend, had a nice F18 worlds on a new boat
Edit: I omitted Sarah Streater/Matt Whitehead in my original post... too many good teams to keep track of!
Overall, a great looking field- stoked for the US F16 class!
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[Re: Timbo]
#254468 11/08/12 03:38 PM 11/08/12 03:38 PM |
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | How cold is it? Cold air will kill your gas mileage.
? I would have thought the inverse were true. Cold air is denser, so you get more hp from burning it (PV=nRT) Cold air is, well, colder, so you get a greater temperature difference pre- vs. post-combustion Perhaps pushing a car through colder/denser air requires more force, but I can't see it needing THAT much more force... I know I could turn better numbers at the track with my old 300ZX TT when it was cold out or I used nitrous in the intercooler (the cold nitrous chilled the rest of the air so I got triple points - nitrous + colder intake air + higher boost pressure from the expanding nitrous). Now, keeping the dang thing on the pavement was a bigger issue for me (there was some odd electronic rear-wheel "Hicas" steering thingy that kept screwing up. I suspect it was one of the early Stability control things Nissan thought of. That little light blinked more than a discotek on a friday night)
Jay
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[Re: Reiss]
#254476 11/08/12 07:56 PM 11/08/12 07:56 PM |
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Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn | Cold will make more power all the way around. More oxygen, colder intercooler as well. In some respects more fuel because it has less volume per unit of energy.
but. Your drivetrain is colder as well. Thicker fluids mean more drag. Eventually they come up to temp though.
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