[Land-speed] Tires,Mileage,etc/non LSR ?

[Jon Wennerberg]

On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Ed Van Scoy wrote:


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Well, maybe he meant that they don't have a butterfly in the venturi  
-- no throttle plate, so to speak.

Well, that is sort of what I think he means, but something has to  
control the injectors.....

It's a big rheostat on my truck -- nothing but a volume control, so  
to speak, that tells the computer that I want to go faster (or  
slower) and the computer does the rest by adjusting injector timing/ 
volume and stuff like that.  Drive - by - wire comes to Detroit.


And, Ed -- if your mileage computer shows lower than real life --  
that only adds fuel to the discussion that the things aren't all that  
accurate.  I don't read the gallons used readout too much -- save  
that I've learned to watch the gauge carefully when it's getting  
low.  If the low-fuel light comes on and the doing-doing thing makes  
it's sound -- Nancy goes into panic mode that we're about to run out  
of fuel and be stranded in the middle of BF Egypt.  I try to have the  
"miles left 'til we're on fumes" number ready to respond to her fears!

That is exactly why I carry a 5 gal jug of fuel in the trailer! I  
have been stuck in BF Egypt, and it's not all that "Arabian Nights"  
makes it out to be ;-)

Yeah, the 5-gallon jug rides in the back of our rig, too.  We ran the  
tank dry once -- in Chillicothe, Ohio, as we were pulling into the  
fuel station.  What a bugger of a time trying to restart, even  
following instructions.  Tip the jug and life stays a lot better.
Ed

Jon , tall guy with moustache
and two 200 MPH Club hats