My corolla get's 36, (avg mostly highway), I wish it did better. I don't need all the zip. (screw the guy in the big truck behind me as I merge onto the HW.. :^)
Seriously I sometimes feel trapped in a canyon made of trucks these days.. sitting in my car there's no way I can see over the bed anymore.
George H.
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:46:42 -0500, krw Gave us:
Usually, that is called a RADIAL piston engine, not "rotary".
There was the style where the whole engine and the prop rotated about a fixed crankshaft. Really!
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
I drive a pickup, not because I like driving a pickup but because I work around the house and need it for lumber/mulch/dump runs. My boss used to use his beamer for mulch but even he drives a pickup now. ;-)
Sucks to be the 90lb weakling. ;-)
You're AlwaysWrong, too. Radial and rotary engines are different animals.
Yep, they're called "rotary engines". ;-)
Right:
Really bizarre.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
When you mount it the right way, they're called "radial engines". ;-)
I'm driving a 19 year old T100 I've had for 18. I'm thinking of getting a new car after I submit taxes this season and see how much I have. I get 20 MPG, but it would be nice to get 30 or 40... or better, xx MPkWHr.
-- Rick
I have been around machinery that has no engine and it tends to make noise just from the parts moving and such. I guess a steam engine is a pretty durn simple device. I never thought about it, it doesn't have all the complications of a four stroke engine. I guess the simpler valve train cuts a lot of noise.
Were the steam engines running at much speed? At low speed I suppose that would not make much noise. An internal combustion engine has to run at idle speed minimum while a steam engine has no minimum speed.
-- Rick
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:57:28 -0800, John Larkin Gave us:
Yeah, it went about 45 knots, and was a big bi-wing IIRC.
The road in front of our house is fairly narrow, so almost everyone drives about 35 mph. The steam cars are just sightseeing in an antique car, so they go a bit slower, probably about 25 mph. At that speed they are almost completely silent.
Dan
Well I use my wife's mini-van for that type of stuff. If it's too big, I've got a little trailer, very handy.
George H.
I get 56mpg.
NT
I've had a couple of minivans. Terrible reliability. Neither lasted
100K miles. I don't want to store a trailer. Too much bother, though I rent one when I need it.There's just the two of us now, so we have the F150 and a Mustang convertible.
My previous pickup was 12 years old and about 130K miles when the rear wheels fell out of it. The frame, where the rear leaf springs attached vaporized. When I picked up the new truck from the dealer he said he just got a Mustang convertible the same color in that day. The first word out of my mouth was "damn". SWMBO bought it two days later. Well, we got a good deal on both of them. ;-)
We rented a Mustang convertible a few years back. We hated it. It was a huge struggle to get the top up and down; nothing lined up. The instruments were terrible.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
It was a rental and you drive a VW. Why am I not surprised that you didn't like it.
I think steam engines in general run a lot slower than we run internal combustion engines.
-- Les Cargill
They certainly do - good point. For some reason, the arrangement of the article seemed to suggest engines commonly used in cars.
-- Les Cargill
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