At 10:06 AM 7/14/2008, Mike wrote: >shut off A/C while around town, prevent long idling (I shut off while at the Over a longish history of frig\\\\fiddling with small-to-medium engines on sailboats and Vanagons and such, I've been perennially astounded by how much fuel they consume while idling. I tend to think of idling as essentially zero-output, but of course it isn't -- it's only zero (ish) *useful* output. It still has to overcome pumping losses and compression and friction losses, and also spin the motor fast enough that it won't stall when external loads are applied. And on modern engines it has to supply some noticeable chunk of a horsepower for the electronic control systems.
-- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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