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Old 01-11-2012, 11:09 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by toc View Post
Now, I want to be using the very lowest air fuel mixture possible at the point the car spends the longest - neutral (coasting). When it's accellerating, it's at 2000 RPM tops before changing up (see, I do read and search - in fact, out of 70 posts, I've probably read many hundreds on here since joining looking for anything I can adapt with).

Isn't more air a good thing (look at it this way: The faster the engine can get up to the desired speed, the more time it will spend idling).

I don't want to risk the battery etc, so I don't want to do Engine Off Coasting - yeh, I realise others do it, but the responses I saw said charging the battery.
Idling is the enemy. You don't want your engine to spend much time idling at all.

If you don't have huge electrical loads, EOC won't drain the battery.

Me thinks you need to do more searching here. It's all there; you just have to find it.
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