Posted on 05/02/2008 5:13:54 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
Yes, the sudden stresses will shorten mechanical life of the engine parts.
He’s probably doing this by switching the ignition off to kill the engine, while simultaneously depressing the clutch lever, and immediately turning the ignition back on again, without running the starting motor, according to the pattern he mentions. The car can use the kinetic energy of its motion to start the engine, simply by releasing the clutch lever suddenly, when the speed drops to 24 kmph.
I thought it was rods per hogshead.
It is your money... you go spend it any way you want.
I think I would rather slit my wrists than try to drive like that for more than a few miles. I call shenanigans on the whole article.
a practice begun a few years ago by truck drivers.”
I was 24 at the time I was doing such stupid things. I just went to Gainesville, Florida (GO GATORS!) Wednesday to Shands Medical Center for some tests, about 300 miles one way from here, and I cannot stand to be behind big trucks anymore.......
Or one of me. LOL.
I'm cetain I could do better, but I have a lead foot.
you have an excellent sense of humor.......i like you
Pulse-glide won’t work with an automatic transmission. Without the input shaft turning the front pump, the auto tranny has no internal lubrication, and it is still turning while going down the road in neutral.
Your transmission shop will love you if you do this to a auto-trans.
Wrong! MEN the hardest hit, probably by women and minorities! lol
Awesome picture! Thanks.
Incorrect - drafting helps the lead vehicle as well as the following by reducing the negative pressure on the rear of the lead vehicle.
Stopped by an auto parts shop the other day. Bought 6 ft of 3/8th fuel line. Guy asked how many hose clmps I needed. I smiled and told him “none, I am tired of paying for gas and will get it free from now on”. He and his manager looked a little uncomfortable and mumbled something about locking gas caos.
Thanks. For me personally, not burning as much gas is just about saving money. I absolutely hate buying gas, but, I need it... so I will do everything I can to buy the minimal amount of gas that I need.
I do the same thing with CFL bulbs and I reuse as much stuff around the house as I can so that I don't have to spend money on new stuff. If you didn't know any better you would think I am some hippie tree-hugger, but I am not. :)
locking gas caps
I had a 1970 Beetle for 17 years. Made many
trips between Colorado Springs and DC in it. Drafting was a well known practice. Speed limits on I-70 in Kansas were 80 or 85 (I think).
Didn’t draft much, but it was very, very well known at the time. In a VW you needed relatively flat ground since it wasn’t really good on some of the hills in western Kansas. And absolute concentration.
And, of course, have you seen Breaking Away? Done that, too, when I was younger.
The Mythbuster show I saw the PROVED “drafting” behind a big rig worked.
New fad - harumph. It ain’t new and something that’s been going on for 30 years ain’t a fad.
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