I would believe that having two large football players worth of weight
added to your own will increase the load on the engine when you are
trying to get it going from stop, or accelerate on the freeway. A full
tank is only 160 lb. Dead flat like KS or FL may allow you to flog the
engine a bit more than just puttering about town
On Wednesday, April 5, 2006, at 06:05 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
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From: "redghost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Toss a bunch of sand bags into the trunk and then try to reach
highway
speeds. Might have a few in the rear foot wells. 400 lb ought to
give
the car a work out.
I once had fifteen 500' spools of siamese video cable in my 300D.
That's about 500 pounds. It didn't change the ride as much as you'd
think, but the ride height was affected pretty noticably. I'm sure
acceleration was affected, but I suspect adding weight doesn't change
the engine load at a steady speed very much.
David Brodbeck
'83 300D Turbo
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