Okay, I think I'm hooked on hypermiling. I just got 47 MPG on the last tank
Anyhoo, I'm still waiting for my vacuum gauge to arrive. I'm going to mess up my fuel economy this week, as I'll be taking the Accent to the 1/4 mile track for fun. Hopefully this weekend I can track down a tachometer cluster and get to work on my AFR monitor. I've got an experiment planned, let me know what you guys think:
AIM: To find out the most efficient acceleration technique for pulse + glide driving.
EQUIPMENT:
-Vacuum gauge
-Duty cycle monitor
-Timer
-AFR monitor (optional)
METHOD:
I plan to initally run the tests for an acceleration from 50 to 60 mph. The controlled variable will be the vacuum - I'll set a particular vacuum and then time the run and record the fuel economy for the duration of the run.
This is based on what seems to be quite a common dilemma:
-low load, righ rpm driving or;
-high load, low rpm driving?
Anyway, I can't do that experiment until I get a little instrumentation first. Thanks for reading! I'll let you know how it does on the quarter mile: I'm hoping to beat 18 seconds.