How to Brake for Fuel Efficiency
A car consumes most gas as it accelerates. It’s a simply law of physics (force equals mass times acceleration). A moving car doesn’t require much gasoline to keep moving (due to the inherent inertia). In real life this means, in order to improve your mileage you need to keep the ride smooth. Let me give [...]
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Some Great General Gas Saving Tips
Install pressure regulator valve (sold in auto parts stores)… Use graphite motor oil… Beware of oil additives, regardless of advertising claims… Add Marvel Mystery Oil into gas fill-ups… Investigate fuel/water injection methods and products… combine short errands into one trip… Use special gas additives to prevent winter freezing of gas lines… convert your V8 engine [...]
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Ideal Rate of Acceleration
If you are trying to figure out just how to accelerate in the most fuel efficient way then you need to read this article for the ideal rate of acceleration:
http://www.crxmpg.com/acceleration-and-fuel-economy-tested/
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Hypermiling on CNN
If you are just starting out with hypermiling I thought this story may be interesting to you. This is a CNN bit on a hypermiler, showing off some techniques. Hypermiling is beginning to be very mainstream, what are you waiting for?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/06/03/obrien.hypermiling.cnn
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Debunking a Hypermiling Myth
There is a gas saving myth out there about idling your car and gas saved. Many people report that starting your car uses as much gas as 1-2 minutes of idling. This is, however, not the truth. Most vehicles, especially cars and light trucks, use very little gas to start as compared to idling. Because [...]
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How to Buy Gas at the Cheapest Price
Buy gasoline during coolest time of day - early morning or late evening is best. During these times gasoline is densest. Keep in mind - gas pumps measure volumes of gasoline, not densities of fuel concentration. You are charged according to “volume of measurement”.
Choose type and brand of gasoline carefully. Certain brands provide you with [...]
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Tip for Finding Cheap Gas
Did you know that credit card companies charge money ( a flat fee + a percentage) to stores for processing? Because of this gas stations which accept credit cards tend to have an 8-15 cent higher gas price!
Look for gas stations which only take debit and cash, you’ll save. For the most part these are [...]
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Using Acetone in Your Gas
Rumour has it that by adding just a few ounces of acetone per ten gallons of gas will have you get more mileage out of your tank.
Strange but true! Acetone helps gas to fully vaporise, which means less wasted fuel. Fuel that was previusly wasted past the rings or sent out via the exhaust, when [...]
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DIY: Aftermarket PCV into OEM PCV
This is a DIY that is meant for the VX crowd that doesn’t have the OEM PCV “Elbow” and want theirs to be like the stock one again. Honda doesn’t sell the OEM one anymore.
A little background:
The OEM PCV (Positive Crank Vent/Valve) is no more than an emissions elbow with no internals inside it. Most [...]
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Phil Knox’s Aerodynamics Seminars and Mod-data Lists
Over a periods of months, Phil Knox wrote all of these. If you are looking for aero advice for your car then this is your all inclusive starting point:
A series of brief Aerodynamics/Aero-mod Seminars
A series of Lists of Cd change for various mods.
Unfortunately, the thread titles weren’t a 100% consistent, so it’s not [...]
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