Re: [AMC-list] mileage

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 07:17, Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> you running a late-'70s or '80s 2bbl intake?  they're the best of the
> carb efforts for fuel dist.


Yeah, the aluminum, water-cooled 83? intake with BBD pattern. The Howell kit
has a GM TBI to BBD adapter.



> we got 23 mpg at 65 on the 700-odd miles from the nc/va line to boston
> in my gf's '01 cherokee, 4.0, auto.


Wow, that's good. Comparable vehicle more or less too.  There's not THAT
much difference evolutionarily from the 63 Classic to Cherokee, really.
Besides the obvious (engine, trans) I wonder what the next-biggest hits on
energy consumption are? Aerodynamics? (Cherokee doesn't look like an ogive
to me.)


-- 
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Enjoy your unstable system.
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