How much gas just to run the stereo?

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Pissed? Im having fun. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

Pissed? Im having fun. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

having fun instructing noobs in the way of car audio genius? lol...does sound entertaining..//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

having fun instructing noobs in the way of car audio genius? lol...does sound entertaining..//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

No even better, watching some cocky guy make an *** out himself.

 

[atsaubrey 10+ year member]

and a decent audio system may add 100-300 pounds... witch will take more hourse power to move the car...

I must have a decent audio system then cause I have at least 300lbs of just deadener

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

No even better, watching some cocky guy make an *** out himself.

haha have fun...i had a question that only you could answer but i seem to have forgotten..

 

[tarzan1930]

Your horsepower to wattage ratio is correct. But you also need to consider efficiency losses. Your stereo is not 100% efficient, your alternator is not 100% efficient, and there are losses in every wire and at every joint. How much all these loses add up to is anyone's guess, but a 750 watt stereo will certainly cost you more than 1hp.

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With gas prices as absurd as they are these days (I pay around 4 freakin bucks a gallon here in good ole California), this isn't such a ridiculous question. And, maybe the OP was just curious.

Yeah. What you said about losses makes me wonder if maybe there'll be a market for "green audio".

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

haha have fun...i had a question that only you could answer but i seem to have forgotten..

I think I already know the question... and the answer is, tell her she must have gotten it from some other guy she was sleeping with that night. And be sure to act surprised. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif

Yeah. What you said about losses makes me wonder if maybe they'll be a market for "green audio".

Can you imagine trying to put a decent sized stereo in an electric car? lol

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

I think I already know the question... and the answer is, tell her she must have gotten it from some other guy she was sleeping with that night. And be sure to act surprised. l

haha ur such an ***...i think it was something to do with my understanding of a BL curve..ill pm you if i remember..

 

[Pootie 10+ year member]

Okay smart guy, then explain how your previous comment makes any sense within the context of this conversation. Let me give you a hint, the energy in your battery that allows you to play your stereo with the engine off.... cost you money in gas previously by building up/maintaining the charge in said battery.
I would have been happy to politely point out your flawed logic, but you had to be all smart-*** to the OP when it is you that doesn't know what he's talking about. If you aren't 100% confident in your knowledge in the subject, Id keep the cocky attitude out of it if I were you. Better yet, just try reading, rather than actually responding.

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My post was not serious at all hence the gremlin reference, just wanted a better explanation from the OP and for my rebutle to you, YOU being a smart-*** asked if I thought a car ran off magic. So tell me how would you reply to some d!ck being a smartass to you in a thread

and Im the cocky one

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

lol at OP but on a more realisitc note. Im going to have just under a 1000lbs in the back of my 4runner and its already sagging like a *****. Anyone guess how much that will hurt my gas mileage?

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

lol at OP but on a more realisitc note. Im going to have just under a 1000lbs in the back of my 4runner and its already sagging like a *****. Anyone guess how much that will hurt my gas mileage?

well i had 2 18"s in 15 cu ft with 3 batteries, an amp, and a ton of wire, not to mention a 250amp alt and i dropped like 2 mpg...not too bad.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

well i had 2 18"s in 15 cu ft with 3 batteries, an amp, and a ton of wire, not to mention a 250amp alt and i dropped like 2 mpg...not too bad.

Sounds good cause I got a 120 mile drive I make on the weekends and already only get like 15mpg

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

Sounds good cause I got a 120 mile drive I make on the weekends and already only get like 15mpg

i dropped from 21-20 ish to 19-18 depending on how i drive.

 

[tarzan1930]

Can you imagine trying to put a decent sized stereo in an electric car? lol

Haha. Yeah. Still, that seems to be the way things are going.

I'm betting that the electrics or hybrid electrics are going to take that 20hp at 45mph and drop it maybe to 10hp.

At that point a decent audio system starts to take a more serious chunk of the power.

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

TC Sounds? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

****it beat me to it