Improving the gas mileage of my silverado: Lightening the truck
Hi all, long story short I had been commuting in my Prius, my wife recently changed companies and now doesn't have a company car anymore. She's been driving the Prius and until I find a new commuter I've been driving my pickup. I've been documenting and testing my attempts to improve the gas mileage of the truck, check out my first episode of the project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt9eIPtii4s Hope it might help someone else, any input is appreciated. My next project are going to be some light aero mod's using corrugated plastic. |
Great video - thumbs up!
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Weight reduction as a means of getting better mileage vary. If your commute is mostly highway, you probably won't see any difference. If it is mostly city driving you will see some improvements.
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Good efforts, for comparisons sake, I used 193 US gallons last year in 10,000 miles. I think aerodynamics will play a huge part though, especially in a big, flat faced, high riding truck. Have you considered smaller, lighter steel rims with narrower tyres? Just as an experiment maybe?
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You can probably do that in your truck. Mine is a 98 and doesn't have the newer engine. Is yours new enough to have cylinder deactivation on it?
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