Oh, I forgot to mention I've used that technique a couple of times in my more
recent Saab 900's when I thought I was running out of gas. Get is up to, as
you said, a "prudent" speed and then coast as far as you can at engine idle.
Good way to wring every last mile out of that last ounce of gas!!!
Donny V
1978 MGB
In a message dated 3/14/2003 4:33:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
thomcount@netscape.net writes:
> Subj: Re: M.P.G. for a T/R 3
> Date: 3/14/2003 4:33:22 PM Eastern Standard Time
> From: <A HREF="mailto:thomcount@netscape.net";>thomcount@netscape.net</A>
> To: <A
>HREF="mailto:british-cars@autox.team.net";>british-cars@autox.team.net</A>
> Sent from the Internet
>
> 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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