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Old 07-20-2006   #14
Shane@DBPerformance
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Re: Gas Saving Tips

Keep you foot off the gas. Driving style will make a huge difference on a turbo car. I have ridden with a lot of people who can't accelerate slowly from a stop or cruise at a constant speed. Any time you get near 0 psi or above, you are going to use a lot more gas not just because of the increased load/power, but also because the car will come out of closed loop and run much richer A/Fs.

I was getting around 26-27mpg when I daily drive Mara's Talon AWD to work. The car had snow tires on it too, I switched to her normal tires, hopefully that will add another mpg or 2 and then I am going to do some lean burn ECU tuning. It has 2G pistons in it, which help gas mileage over the 1G low compression. If you have a 1G, you could run an EPROM ECU and put in some code to turn off the O2 sensor and actually run leaner than 14.7 under cruise to save gas. You could do the same with a standalone like the AEM.
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