Gasoline Milage - 01/15/18 02:29 PM
You may want to skip this. It's the product of a scrambled mind. Is too.
Sitting here on yet another cold day thanks to , I got to thinking.
I've noticed the price of gasoline creeping up again. It makes me wonder if it is worth the expense of driving my 41 coupe around. Those old 216s with the 4"11 differentials could only get milage in the upper teens even on a good day, such as with a tailwind and downhill most of the way.
Now compare it with my 2011 GMC with a 6.2 liter engine and automatic transmission which gets about the same milage on regular.
Something is wrong here. Well, anyway it seems to be. Read on.
Why can't we do something that will make our old cars get better gasoline milage? Even if we go to a higher ratio differential, the milage will stay about the same owing to less efficient use of fuel. In other words there is a point where the trade off between gained in milage will drop off owing to stress on the engine to carry the load. You know.
Anyone got any insight as to why our old 207s and 216s are so danged inefficient. After all they only produce about 75-90 HP or so.
I'm thinking that I should adapt the transmission to a Honda Civic or Toyota Corona engine.
Gasoline at $2.30 a gallon is high for pouring through the guzzling old Carter.
What do you think?
Charlie
BTW: Telling me that your old 207 or 216 gets 25 MPH just won't be convincing. That kind of milage is a "pipe dream" and derived by inaccurate math and/or test. :Agrin
BTW2: Anyone know where I can get one of those things that went on the coil that made an engine jump up in RPMs at county fairs, etc. You older ones know what I'm talking about. I'll try anything.
Sitting here on yet another cold day thanks to , I got to thinking.
I've noticed the price of gasoline creeping up again. It makes me wonder if it is worth the expense of driving my 41 coupe around. Those old 216s with the 4"11 differentials could only get milage in the upper teens even on a good day, such as with a tailwind and downhill most of the way.
Now compare it with my 2011 GMC with a 6.2 liter engine and automatic transmission which gets about the same milage on regular.
Something is wrong here. Well, anyway it seems to be. Read on.
Why can't we do something that will make our old cars get better gasoline milage? Even if we go to a higher ratio differential, the milage will stay about the same owing to less efficient use of fuel. In other words there is a point where the trade off between gained in milage will drop off owing to stress on the engine to carry the load. You know.
Anyone got any insight as to why our old 207s and 216s are so danged inefficient. After all they only produce about 75-90 HP or so.
I'm thinking that I should adapt the transmission to a Honda Civic or Toyota Corona engine.
Gasoline at $2.30 a gallon is high for pouring through the guzzling old Carter.
What do you think?
Charlie
BTW: Telling me that your old 207 or 216 gets 25 MPH just won't be convincing. That kind of milage is a "pipe dream" and derived by inaccurate math and/or test. :Agrin
BTW2: Anyone know where I can get one of those things that went on the coil that made an engine jump up in RPMs at county fairs, etc. You older ones know what I'm talking about. I'll try anything.