BigRigTech
Diesel junky
Yep, it just reminds you who isn't top dog....
I found first gear WAY too low for anything useful. I would simply almost dump the clutch in second gear without any fuel and when teh clutch was fully engaged, away she'd go. I find we have too many retards and impatient **** holes here that don't like to wait for you to use first gear. If you don't prett much hammer it down when that light turns green, you are getting passed then cut off BAD in my parts.....too many "imports" from other countries living here.
So do you have a lower 1st gear in your zf5 or not? Seems like I remember you saying you do...
If people get tired of waiting for me to shift from 1st to 2nd, they are most welcome to bury my hitch in their radiator. Wouldn't bother me a bit. They are welcome also to suck up some nice smoke in their air conditioner or heater intake as well. Its fun running stoplight to stoplight. Everyone takes off a lot faster and leaves me in the dust, but I always manage to catch up.
Ok, I ran a couple tanks through the 3.55's and came up with this.
With the WINTER tires and 3.55's I was averaging 19.5 MPG. This is a 2.5 average MPG increase. On the highway ONLY I could JUST touch 21 mpg ever so lightly. That is a 2 MPG increase.
But this weekend I REALLY babied it around and came up with a GREAT number....best yet since I bought it I think.
I put the highway tread summer tires on, pumped them up to door tag spec and then 5 psi more and filled the front tank. Winter fuel still remember.
I drove a total of just under 300 miles (480 kilometers) on a grand total of 60 liters (15.9 gallons) for a GRAND total of 22.56 MPG Canadian.
Just WAIT until I start running the summer fuel. I should also add I stuck a bottle of seafoam in that tank....might have a little something to do with the 22.5 MPG on winter fuel lol.
funny, cause i am swaping the other way.... need better gearing for the 40's.