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Old 06-20-2011, 11:08 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SentraSE-R View Post
Once might be a fluke. Twice might be coincidence. Three times is a trend. Props for the 85.6 mpg. Update?
81.1 on the identical route tonight. Easily better than the previous 74 best. Plus, it would have been higher and will be tomorrow. At the end of my run of have two quarter mile heartbreaker hills in close succession. Today at the bottom of those hills I was at 90.1mpg and then I screwed up the DWL routine climbing the first hill, going in third far too early and stubbornly not shifting out. The benefit was never entirely about ignition timing... I had at the same time started applying improved DWL technique from PaleMelanesian. Another post tomorrow or maybe the day after with more results.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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