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Originally Posted by tumnasgt
If your Subaru's gearing allows it, I'd recommend changing up around 2300rpm, as engines are typically more efficient at lower RPMs.
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I have tried shifting at lower RPMs, the problem with this car is due to its relatively low compression ratio and transmission drag (full time 4wd), if the RPM drops below 2000 after a shift, the engines needs to pull a lot less vacuum to recover, resulting in more fuel usage.
Without the use of an accurate fuel consumption gauge of some description, this is only an educated guess, but my current driving style does yield a lot more mileage than other techniques I have tried.
I'd like to build a mpguino or something similar in the near future.
Do you use anything other than odometer to monitor fuel consumption?