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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Do you have a sense of how much of your FE gain is due to the mods and how much is due to your driving changes. From what I see in your mods, I would guess wildly that anywhere from a third to two thirds of the FE gain is from driving style mods.
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When I first got the car, I was pretty easy on it and operated with a mid form of hypermiling, mainly due to the conditions I had to drive in. Even then I was getting roughly 41MPG. I think you are spot on with your estimate; I'd say at least 1/3 is due to driving style for sure. All the aero mods help me capitalize on the driving style. In some ways they work in unison. If I had every mod on the car and drove like the STIG, you can bet your a## I would be nowhere near 50+MPG.
I can hypothesize all day about exact numbers, but the reality of it is that the driving style was utilized first. After that I did the mods. So any changes that appeared were working in unison with the driving style.
-Alex