ive lived this in a 3 cylinder geo metro that for some ungodly reason had air conditioning. i loved that car.
dump the ac, and drop it into warp 2, youre good to go
I used to have a 2000 Honda insight that I ripped the hybrid battery out of and just drove it on the 3 cylinders. That thing was geared so high I would drive up hills flooring it in 2nd gear at like 35 mph. 5th gear basically never got used unless I needed to go 85 mph+
Fun car that stranded me only a couple times lol. The “replacement” hybrid battery was an Arduino spliced into the wiring harness to trick the car computer that everything was okay. Felt like some real ghetto cyberpunk shit driving that thing around.
He would say divert you uncultured Philistine!
Or how about when a car is overheating and you turn on the heater for that extra bit of heat capacity?
I regret to inform you that I have experience with this in the middle of summer.
I’m not sure what you people are doing but I’m usually pretty hot and sweaty. Don’t shit in your car.
Of course! That’s when the engine is going to over heat. If you’re hot, they’re hot
Haha I didn’t think people still retained that ancient knowledge of motoring success. The good ole days of weak 4-cylinder cars and trucks, when you’d disengage the AC to get more power to go up a hill or something. I’ve met several people who didn’t know it was even a thing.
Yes of course they are, but modern 4-cylinder engines have advanced a lot since the old days of last century’s engines.
Today it’s not hard to find a 4-cylinder that can put out 100 horsepower per liter, or even more. They can pull that little car up the hill with the AC on full blast.
Most modern 4 cyl cars are better than old ones. The engines are more powerful and the car lighter
Many more recent cars will do this automatically at high throttle conditions, such as acceleration to pass.
