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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG (super unleaded?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.181010.23247@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ophelia.cs.colorado.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <x4yr19_@dixie.com> <29392@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <08zr4tg@dixie.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:10:10 GMT
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- Hate the crap.
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- I drive a 1970 Toyota Landcruiser FJ40, with a 350 chevy under the hood.
- Needless to say, combining something with the aerodynamics of a piece
- of plywood and what some would consider a large engine (IMHO,
- 500+ cubes are large, but I digress) doesn't make for the best mileage.
- To make up for this, and accomodate the high altitude driving that
- I do (Nothing below 5000 feet, sometimes unpaved mountain passes at
- 12,500) the primary side of my carb is jetted lean. So at 5000 feet, the
- leanness conditions caused by this crap gives me starting problems
- and make driving hell until things get really warm (hell defined as
- a little too hard on the gas, and I get misses and back fires from
- things beening lean. Even during cold portions of the fall, without
- this crap, WOT accelerations worked when it was cold). At 9000 feet,
- things are tolerable, but I live at 5000...
- --
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit. | Drew Eckhardt
- Condemn Colorado for Amendment Two. | drew@cs.colorado.edu
- Use Linux, the fast, flexible, and free 386 unix |
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