Since my Optima YT's are rolling along just fine (about 1k miles on them now), I want to turn my attention to increasing overall efficiency, to reduce my Amp/Hrs per mile. I'll be looking into front end alignment, LRR tires, etc, but I suspect my motor is where I'm losing the most.
Since it is a 6.7" ADC (a bit small for my car), I suspect that I'm having a lot of electricity turned into heating up the motor instead of having the motor run faster (since I'm at the upper end of the power/torque it will do). I'm wondering how I can measure this loss. If I were to measure the air temp going into the motor and the temp leaving the motor, with a fan of a fixed CFM blowing air through the motor (in a sealed manner), can I use that information to figure out how many BTUs or Watts of heat are being generated? Any ideas on how to proceed on quantifying this would be appreciated. Mark Dodrill
