I think it should be "an internal combustion engine is
most efficiant" and it might be most efficiant at the
peak HP. Problem is at peak efficiancy, you usually
aren't using all that power, fuel economy is poopy and
you get speeding tickets :-0
--- Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com> wrote:
>
> Dunno where you read that. Anyone who's ever used
> a vacuum guage for
> fuel economy will tell you that's balogna.
>
> CR
>
> Bullwinkle wrote:
> >
> >
> > Somewhere I thought I once read that an internal
> combustion engine gets its best
> > fuel economy at something like 90% of full
throttle.
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58 Willys CJ-3B
She married me not for what I was, but for what she could make me...
The computer forgot my password.
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