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Offline Carlriddle

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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2015, 06:58:11 AM »
So putting on side of buggy wont be same as doing the turbo?  Crap!! 
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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2015, 07:32:46 AM »
I was hoping someone would chime in with it's more like freeing up 15-20 hosses on my toter. Hell that's approx. a 9% increase in HP for my little cat. Turning the fuel up that much was very noticeable. It would seem to me getting a 4-5% increase in mpg (if true)for a true big rig would need a performance increase equivalent to something like that to see the claimed mpg increase. I'd agree 100% with DW though that 15-20 hosses would be unnoticeable on an engine with 2-3 times the hp/tq as my baby Cat.
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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2015, 01:10:26 PM »
well i added them to the tail of the toyhauler and under the front lip. i am going to add them to the roof of the truck but not until enemy paints them to match the truck for me. i haven't drop them off for him to do so yet lol now i put them on and left on a 620 mile round trip drive to the sw corner of nebraska. i drove to the elmcreek exit just west of kearney ne then took hwy the rest of the way. i set the cruise at 75 mph and on gps my fastest speed was 80.5 must have been when i needed to pass people. 65 to 70mph on the hwys except for little towns that slowed me down to 25 mph!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf anyway i didn't have any real issues with sway before on a decent day. i installed them for poss mpg and to try and stop the tornado in my truck box along with keeping my ramp door cleaner. a 5 gal fuel can with 1 gal of fuel up towards the cab of my truck was sucked out but that tornado on the way to LS. i did notice this........ no longer lifting the 3/4 " thick rubber mat in my truck box at 80 mph with camper on, ramp gate road grime reduced 90% DO NOT feel any suction from semi's as i pass them anymore and 3 fill ups on 620 miles hand calulated 1 mpg constistant with all three fill ups.
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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2015, 01:13:25 PM »
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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2015, 01:46:46 PM »
I can't tell by your pics, but did you put them on the back door?

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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2015, 02:15:51 PM »
I can't tell by your pics, but did you put them on the back door?

cell phone pics.....back door? i can't see how mounting them on the ramp gate would do any good but you have more experience so please explain? the pics are of the side walls at the very rear of the camper that is a ladder to get to the roof in the one pic which is on the left side at the rear corner of the camper.
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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2015, 02:16:44 PM »
i'll have to take better pics and post them
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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #22 on: June 29, 2015, 02:27:56 PM »
Yea that's what confused me was the ladder. Lol I was wondering why you would put them on the back only because I never saw a ladder on the side.

Your experience is about what others have told me and pretty much think they are a perfect use on any trailer. Or should I say, any place where there is a 90* turn that air will rush in.
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Re: Airtabs (split from rv gps)
« Reply #23 on: June 29, 2015, 09:34:22 PM »
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