I'm assuming just from everyone else's experience that the neutral coasting made the majority of the difference, but I do know I am hearing less wind noise on the highway now, and never had an opportunity to coast on the highway.
I love tall gearing. 3.55 rear end means once I hit overdrive, my engine stays slow! Better yet, since work is right off Johnson Street [23], I can spend the vast majority of my drive in 4th gear (like everybody else, I cruise down 23 in town at 40mph)
40mph: 1000rpm [Unknown power]
50mph: 1400rpm [70hp / 265ft-lbf at crank]
75mph: 2000rpm [110hp / 275 ft-lbf at crank]
rmay, I'm still not figuring out the wavering you mentioned... what exactly is your technique? I know what you mean about how you can feel the minute changes...
Quick video of how I accelerate:
you can see that it spends a lot of time right at 2,000.
All this talk about how Dodge programmed the fuel injection to use more fuel in gear makes me wonder how effective a well-tuned Megasquirt system would be... so you could override the computer and manually control fuel....