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Piwoslaw · 11-29-2010, 05:17 AM

I read about your ecodriving rallys in your other thread, where you remarked that the car has to be stock, with no modifications. Do the rules allow grille (radiator) blocks or pumping tires to a higher pressure? Folding the passenger side mirror can still be regarded as "stock" while slightly improving frontal area. Also, is there a judge in the car with you during the drive to make sure you don't break laws? If not, there are a few techniques you could try (eg coasting in neutral, or even EO(ff)C) which may not be strictly illegal, but which the judges wouldn't allow.

LED daytime running lights would also slightly help by reducing your electrical load by ~150-200W. In Lithuania you are required to drive with your lights on 24h/365, correct?

Does your TDI have an intercooler? Adding one would lower your intake air temperatures, which should increase efficiency.

When will you enter the Lupo in your EM garage?

11-29-2010, 05:17 AM	#3 (permalink)
Piwoslaw aero guerrilla Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 3,700 Svietlana II - '13 Peugeot 308SW e-HDI 6sp 90 day: 58.1 mpg (US) Thanks: 1,274 Thanked 731 Times in 464 Posts	I read about your ecodriving rallys in your other thread, where you remarked that the car has to be stock, with no modifications. Do the rules allow grille (radiator) blocks or pumping tires to a higher pressure? Folding the passenger side mirror can still be regarded as "stock" while slightly improving frontal area. Also, is there a judge in the car with you during the drive to make sure you don't break laws? If not, there are a few techniques you could try (eg coasting in neutral, or even EO(ff)C) which may not be strictly illegal, but which the judges wouldn't allow. LED daytime running lights would also slightly help by reducing your electrical load by ~150-200W. In Lithuania you are required to drive with your lights on 24h/365, correct? Does your TDI have an intercooler? Adding one would lower your intake air temperatures, which should increase efficiency. When will you enter the Lupo in your EM garage? __________________ e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be What matters is where you're going, not how fast. "... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell [Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread