For really high mileage you put a VE TDI engine into it. Less weight than a
601, more power and due to the turbo more efficiency. I regularly broke 50mpg
in my '98 Jetta, in a really light car it'd do better.
-Curt
On Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 3:25:11 PM EST, OK Don via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
You don't buy/build a car like that to get 40 MPG! You transplant an OM601
into something (MGB/GT?) to get 40 MPG
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:22 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> You are correct. That said, the fuel curve can be designed to lean out at
> a certain throttle position at a given rpm range in top gear. But yeah, it
> would be darn difficult to keep ones foot out of the throttle.
>
>
> Rick
>
> From: mercedes@okiebenz.com
> Sent: November 20, 2019 2:17 PM
> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
> Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com
> Cc: rbenn...@bennell.ca
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] abomination
>
> Not if you have your foot in it most of the time. Did you listen to the
> dyno run?
>
> Randy
>
> On 20/11/2019 2:14 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote:
> > Actually, in a different car, with a proper fuel curve, that engine
> design (Chevy LS) will get 40 mpg.
> >
> >
> > Rick
>
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OK Don
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pause and reflect." Mark Twain
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learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
for themselves."
WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers*
2013 F150, 18 mpg
2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph!
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