<VV> Strange economy run happening

RoboMan91324@aol.com RoboMan91324@aol.com
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:50:19 EDT


Bruce,

Maybe the tank received a dent some time during the trip.

Doc
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In a message dated 8/23/2004 2:16:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
virtualvairs-request@corvair.org writes:

> Message: 9
> To: Virutal Vairs <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
> From: Bruce Schug <bwschug@charter.net>
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:33:23 -0400
> Subject: <VV> Strange economy run happening
> 
> FastVairers,
> 
> I've been on a lot of economy runs and I've never seen anything like this... 
> see what you think.
> 
> Saturday, CORSA South Carolina had its annual economy run. We had a good 
> turnout with eleven Corvairs and one "other" car. We filled our own cars up at 
> the start, as usual, and got going. The course was short, about 42 miles, and 
> flat, not many hills or mountains to coast down. At the end we pulled into a 
> gas station and the fill-up began. The eventmaster and a helper carefully 
> filled everyone's tank. I did very well getting 49+ mpg. One of these days, I'm 
> going to get over 50, but not today! Other cars were; 32, twentys, etc.
> 
> But I didn't win.
> 
> Another fellow had a nice black early coupe. I'd never seen the car before 
> and I don't think he'd ever run an economy run. They had pulled up to the pump 
> and the eventmaster had only been able to get about .2 gallons in it! THEY 
> GOT 228 MPG! I wasn't there when they filled it, but they said they let it 
> settle and it just wouldn't take anymore.
> 
> Later, a fellow pointed out to me the way the car sat when parked, lower on 
> the driver's side. He told me that the driver was in the car when it was 
> filled causing it to lean even more. Everyone knew something was wrong, but no 
> one knew what. Assuming the guy had not installed a second gas tank or some 
> other crazy thing, the only thing we could figure was that there was an air 
> "bubble" trapped in the tank because of the way it was leaning. The only other 
> possibility might be something to do with the overflow hose or something like 
> that.
> 
> Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Any other ideas?
> 
> Bruce W. Schug
> CORSA South Carolina
> Greenville, SC
> bwschug@charter.net