emissionimpossible
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I went there on Saturday to see what it was like. The car would't go faster than that. Translates to 87 miles per hour. Is this to prevent accidental time travel?
60psi = 413.7kPa, whereas the Mitsubishi-recommended pressure is 36psi = 250kPaLlecentaur said:60psi, are you noticing any benefit, i do not have the exact stock value in mind but 60 seems a lot more than stock? If so, are you measuring an increase wear in the center of the tire ? Thanks
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Your link was to a test with a car using 'normal' tires - I would expect the benefits of overinflating LRR tires to be much less. Even so, the benefit of 60 PSI vs 40 PSI was only 1.4% and I'll bet the difference between your 60 and my 45 with our LRR tires is well less than 1% . . . . way too little to be able to measure and next to no gain achieved by going beyond what the tire manufacturer considers safeJoeS said:Don, I defer to your experience in the handling department - perhaps the liveliness I feel in my iMiEV is simply due to the minimal contact patch :roll: , yet I consider the iMiEV very stable at speed. However, when it comes to mileage gain, I believe there were a number of tests which showed a significant improvement at higher tire pressures. For example, I briefly looked at EcoModder and they repeated the Mythbusters results as being a 7.6% reduction in fuel consumption in going from 35psi to 60psi:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/mythbusters-tests-tyre-tire-pressure-17151.html