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Anything is more compelling than nothing, I'd say. Dragy is used a lot, and I'll take accelerometer data over hot air 10/10 times. I greatly appreciate a member providing that kind of data personally.

Compared to a complete lack of evidence to the contrary I have nothing more compelling to view. Where's the beef? As they say.

Cab over 12ft stake side bed I'll take it!

I can completely believe better MPG on ethanol free no matter the octane, I've had the same result on every gasoline engine vehicle I've ever driven; E10 has about 2.6% less energy content per gallon vs. straight gasoline and down south where I've visited you can often get the ethanol free...

I preordered the Cybertruck when it first launched, because running the numbers it could have replaced all my truck needs for my 3/4 ton. I didn't really care that the thing looked like a shiny rolling dumpster, I just want numbers. It was supposed to have >3500lb. payload, >14,000lb towing...

In all likelihood, the HF55 behind the 2.5L is living a life of easy luxury. Once I learned that it's also bolted behind the non-derated MPC 2.0 Ecoboost in the Nautilus and for the China-market cars that the MPC was designed and developed for, I ran the numbers the HF55 is dealing with in that...

From the 1/4 mile 93 vs. 87 Lobo thread we already know the truck has run a faster 1/4 on 87 in the same conditions: Unless octane is preventing ignition timing or boost being pulled back, it does nothing. The EB 2.0 in the Maverick is already detuned vs. other 2.0 installs, probably to help...

Transmission temp monitoring would have made this video much more interesting, for sure. At the speeds they were running, between 25 and 35 miles per hour, most of the power was being shuttled through the generator motor and to the traction motor. At peak HP at 25 MPH, the generator is...

In general I think we have little to worry about, I was looking back over the overheat thread I was recalling at that was specifically a Tremor, which I think from reading has an even smaller radiator due to its high approach angle bumper, which would make it the weakest cooling case as well...

It will take the same amount of energy to do the same amount of work no matter what the percentage of maximum is for any engine, the only thing that will matter is the thermal efficiency of either engine at that specific load point and how much rejected energy ends up in the cooling system. The...

Just remember with LED bulbs you're not necessarily going to be alerted if the LED light emitting part of the bulb goes bad and the power resistor that fools the bus into thinking the bulb is the correct resistance is still functional, so you have to keep an eye on your bulbs like in the old...

Too bad you need to have a '25 to send a voice recording feedback message to Ford through the Sync4 system, maybe we can do a loan a truck program so people can record nastygrams about knobs and buttons direct to the Ford mothership! :)

Yeah the EB has gone into limp or power reduction towing grades on some posts I've seen here at least without the 4k package, more power output and lower thermal efficiency, surely needs the improved cooling. I had the same problem converting an old diesel Jetta into a towing rig, it started...

2,000 lb, 10k rated trailer to haul a 1600 lb. SXS, priorities! 😁

Sub-compact refers to the tractor size, I fully intend to use mine with the class up compact utility tractors and implements I have as well, beyond that heavy equipment mostly goes to the big truck. In Kubota world, sub-compact is the BX series, 16-24 HP, and a compact tractors run roughly...

This is a very cool combination of the MPC 2.0 and the HF55, it would be awesome to have this option natively in the Maverick! They could also tune the MPC 2.0 for the Miller cycle for better efficiency as well when used with this transmission, if they wanted to. I didn't know this combination...

(I just noticed I used the HF45 gearing on the HF45 tab in the spreadsheet for the previous example, so I'll continue on with that. In the HF55, our ring gear RPM would be 59.57 RPM at 1 MPH) Case 2: Power Combiner In our first case, we stepped through how the engine and transmission work in...

This is one of the really non-intuitive things about planetaries, is the degrees of freedom of movement, and resulting accelerations, within the gearset between the three elements of ring, carrier, and sun. Normally, we have the engine as the sole input on the carrier, and two outputs, the...

Yep, I drive a lot of highway miles and generally pretty fast, up north over 90 is fairly normal, but I can't complain with averaging over 30mpg in those conditions!

Very similar for mine, I just have more highway in there since purchase at the moment. The July 4th traffic boosted the highway miles noticeably from all the stop and go, this most recent tank that I've not filled yet has probably been one of my best with a highway trip in it.