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Default Um...impossible gallons per hour?

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
Never shut the E-TEC 200 HO off the entire time we were out - four
hours of constant running - idle (600 rpm), trolling (600 rpm), cruise
speed (35 mph @ 4100 rpm) and about six/seven minutes of WOT (54 mph @
5400 rpm). Four house of run time.

Refilled on the way home - same deal - right to the tippy top.


That's a bad idea.

Ok, here we go.

4.883 gallons of gas.

That works out to 1.22075 gph.

I don't believe it either, but them's the facts as they say.

And if anybody calls me a liar, I have a witness who is willing to
"testify" as it were. :)


Air lock and/or heat expansion. If you refeuled the first
time in the morning, the stuff was nice & cool. How big is
your tank? After being in the boat in the sun for hours, the
fuel can expand several gallons worth in a relatively small
tank.

DSK