Chasing Fuel economy.
01-26-2011, 04:42 PM
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gen 1 sbc and bbc's are more plugged up stock for sure. Longtubes helped a bit with the stock 350's in my previous and current 72 chevs
01-26-2011, 10:20 PM
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I didn't read the whole article.
Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Synthetic should help gain some mpg because it has been dyno proven to increas hp by a few percent. Now motor trans and rear end were done to gain, I think, it was 4% hp and that would make millage go up. Again just like exhaust or intake it is hp spent fighting friction or spinning weight that is now used to move the truck.
Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Synthetic should help gain some mpg because it has been dyno proven to increas hp by a few percent. Now motor trans and rear end were done to gain, I think, it was 4% hp and that would make millage go up. Again just like exhaust or intake it is hp spent fighting friction or spinning weight that is now used to move the truck.
01-26-2011, 10:41 PM
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Not sure what car it was. Most agree that sythetic will net you a small amount of power. It also keeps thing a bit cooler. I run sythetic in everything just havn't had the money to do this oil or trans yet. Trans kills me at $150+
01-27-2011, 08:16 AM
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E-fans, and Synthetics.. will net alot,
If this is a 2500 HD burb, then get a set of the forged aluminum HD wheels and some LRR tires, that will net another good chunk, Headers, and a TB spacer will get another good amount, go with a phenolic spacer to alleviate the heat sinking into the TB as well.
Between all of that you should be looking at some good gains, this is the path that my friends father took and like i said in a Previous Post he gets nearly 20mpg...
If this is a 2500 HD burb, then get a set of the forged aluminum HD wheels and some LRR tires, that will net another good chunk, Headers, and a TB spacer will get another good amount, go with a phenolic spacer to alleviate the heat sinking into the TB as well.
Between all of that you should be looking at some good gains, this is the path that my friends father took and like i said in a Previous Post he gets nearly 20mpg...
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