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Originally Posted by Debonair
with taller gears wouldn't it make it lug around more, or take more/longer to get up to a speed?
my goal is for the best city mileage.
and the camaro is an auto, and the truck is a 5 speed, i'm thinking about doing an engine swap in the truck within a year or so.
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For the city, you can easily keep the RPM's low enough to benefit FE... so maybe no big need for taller gearing yet. But taller gearing is an FE favorite because of how the cars are manufactured with power in mind. For city FE think too about weight. Every time you have to accelerate from a stop or from any speed, mass has to follow you. Reduce it with goals measured in the hundreds of pounds by find ounces and single pounds as well as big cuts to make.
Study the "pulse and glide," "driving with load," and (if you have a manual trans) the "engine off coasting" techniques of hypermiling.
But a scan gauge or an ultra gauge... they help your driving style adaptations far more than you might guess now.
Lastly, hypermiling does not need to be about slow driving. It has to be about smart driving techniques. The list of hypermile techniques is your best, quickest, way to higher FE numbers.
Good luck, hey.
james