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110 MPG 1987 Mustang

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iambrutus

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Still has 400HP, 0-60 in 3 seconds, but gets 110MPG because of increased engine efficiency

Engineer Gets 110 MPG Out Of '87 Mustang - Automotive News Story - WKMG Orlando


"We redesigned a lot of different things on the [engine] block," Pelmear told the paper. "It's still a rod-and-piston engine; it just has a lot more electronics on it."Traditional gas engines operate at 8 to 10 percent, efficiency, while the engine on the Mustang, he said, is at 38 percent efficiency.He said he could greatly increase even that number if his car used traditional gasoline instead of a mix of gas and 85 percent ethanol.

Pelmear told television station WNWO that the car hasn't traded power for miles per gallon. Pelmear said the car has 400 horsepower, goes well over 100 mph and can go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds.
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So this one guy can do what teams of engineers and the smartest minds in the world cannot do.

Of course there is the fact they are full of shit with the 8-10 percent efficiency number. Current IC engines get over 30%, and deisels get about 40%.
 
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powerlifter;1198376; said:
0-60 in 3 seconds with 400 hp?
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I was thinking the same thing.

What does that equate to? A 1/4 somewhere in the low 11's?

Of course the short gearing that gets you off the line quick doesn't tend to play well with the concept of better gas mileage.

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Muck;1198426; said:
I was thinking the same thing.

What does that equate to? A 1/4 somewhere in the low 11's?

Of course the short gearing that gets you off the line quick doesn't tend to play well with the concept of better gas mileage.

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No it doesn't.....Unless he has some sort of "advanced technology" that no one else with a mustang does i'd have to see it to believe it. By advanced technology I mean something to make it go unusually faster not just gas mileage. I've seen some jacked up mustangs(one in particular that dyno tested over 550(563),that couldn't do that in 3 seconds. There are obviously a lot of variables (as you were saying about the gearing) other then horsepower alone...but I just don't buy it.
 
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NYBuckeye;1198297; said:
Big difference between cannot and will not.
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are you effin kidding me. Yeah, no auto company wants to have a car with 100 mpg. It's all a big conspiracy. Although one no one let's me in on even though I work for an auto company.

BTW...There is no quicker way to proclaim to the world you are an idiot than by saying there are grand conspiracies that go against the free market economy.

Auto companies could care less about selling oil. They want to sell cars. High mpg would sell cars. Oil has been cheap so they gave the consumers what they wanted. Now that will shift some, but claims like these are totally exaggerated. Gas prices in Europe have been high for decades, and yet many major companies could not do what this guy did. They had market conditions that sold cars by good fuel economy, tens of thousands of engineers and research scientists, and cannot do it. Yeah, it's all a big fucking conspiracy.
 
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