05-26-2015, 01:30 PM
Sorry for the late reply, I was out of my office for the holiday weekend.
Tridon is correct, the fuel rating for the engine you see is the brake specific fuel consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_spec...onsumption
Or in a nut shell the best fuel mileage you can get out of the engine without it being attached to anything (we convert this to distance measurements for simplistic sake)
If you take a 1.6L Honda Civic motor which gets 60mpg brake specific fuel consumption and put it in a Peterbuilt Semitruck. You will be using that motor at fuel throttle ALL the time in order to move that truck. Thus your fuel consumption is going to be more around 10-15mpg.
So yes, your engines are too weak to move your vehicles, as such you're having to operate your engine at full throttle just to move. Thus lowering your fuel consumption.
Tridon is correct, the fuel rating for the engine you see is the brake specific fuel consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_spec...onsumption
Or in a nut shell the best fuel mileage you can get out of the engine without it being attached to anything (we convert this to distance measurements for simplistic sake)
If you take a 1.6L Honda Civic motor which gets 60mpg brake specific fuel consumption and put it in a Peterbuilt Semitruck. You will be using that motor at fuel throttle ALL the time in order to move that truck. Thus your fuel consumption is going to be more around 10-15mpg.
So yes, your engines are too weak to move your vehicles, as such you're having to operate your engine at full throttle just to move. Thus lowering your fuel consumption.
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski