This might get lost in this thread, BUT
I have been playing with acceleration techniques the past couple of days. Just watching the
Scangauge, I played with
slow acceleration versus fast acceleration. Not a whole lot of difference either way. The end result ends up being close to the same by the time I get to the next stop sign 4 miles down the road.
Then I tried something different. If I accelerate in first gear, push the clutch in and neutral coast down 5mph, then shift to second, accelerate, push the clutch in, neutral coast down 5 mph and continue up through the gears like this,
I found I only lost about 1/2 of the MPG than If I went throught he gears normally. I don't have the data as evidence since I am fairly busy driving, but I encourage anyone to verify this if you have octopus hands!
In other words, if you graphed my acceleration speed it would look like a saw blade, vice looking like plateaus, if that makes any sense.