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Location: Kodiak, AK | Yeah, and like I said, this may be in the minority, and out of a thousand fue flow guages, there's going to be a few guys that have issues.
But talking to these guys they pretty much told me that while the guages do show you what you're burning, and you can see a difference now they just look at their rpms, look at their speed and just balance the rpms with their speed, and save gas that way. I gather that basically once you understand that 300 rpm can make a big difference, then you don't need a guage to tell you to back off a bit to maintain the same speed. If you're cruising at 45 mph, at 4800 rpm you know to back it off to 4500 and see what you loose in speed. If it's a mph, then roll with it, if you drop to 41 mph then you know that 4800 is as slow as you can turn to maintain 45. Basically you pick your speed and get established, then back it off until you start to bleed mph then nudge it back up to where you're at your desired speed, and leave the throttle there, and that's your most efficient fuel flow. |
