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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
What pickup are you driving that gets 5-9 MPG? Or are you towing something huge?
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ford ranger. it's lugging my fat self around locally, so almost all stop-n-go, and i'm heavy on the 'go'.
my v6 eclipse averaged 2-4mpg on the display in similar conditions.
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Originally Posted by Payload
The throttle body is responsible for pulling in quantities of air that have to be compressed in order to enter the cylindrical bore and stroke chambers of that particular compartment of the engine..
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how does the throttle body pull in and compress the air? what powers the throttle body to create the compression? belts?
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Originally Posted by Payload
Hence the throttle body plates rotate to compress air through a duct casting hole that is smaller in cross sectional area in comparison to the throttle body cross sectional area..
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most throttle bodies don't rotate more than 90 degrees. how does a plate rotating to 0-90 degrees create any sort of compression effect?