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1) warm air intake was not an issue....since intake air was already being drawn from under the hood with previous setup
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Without knowing what temperature air was being sucked into the engine, this conclusion cannot be supported.
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2) warmer ambient temps not a factor due to not using AC and driving usually in temps under 85 F.
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The effects of air temperature cannot be modeled as a switch. That is, one cannot state that below a given temperature (say, 85 F), air temperature will behave one way, and will behave another way when the air temperature goes above that given temperature.
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3) it's possible that I was trying a little harder with the driving techniques
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This gain might have been caused by warm air being sucked into the intake. This gain might have been caused by removing a restrictive stock intake housing. This gain might have been caused by more attentive driving. This gain might have been caused by a combination of all 3 factors. Or this gain might have been caused by something else entirely. But we will never know for certain, due to the shoddy nature of the performed testing.
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4) with the last refill...the gallons used was close to right on...so the need to readjust gallons used DOWN as seen with previous 2 refills was not seen this time
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Huh?
Is this the same as a correction factor applied to the odometer reading, to get a more accurate measure of miles travelled?
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Basic science? ...try something to see if it works....THEN try to explain it? Don't try to explain it before you try it?
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Blindly do something without understanding the underlying principles? Conduct tests while leaving so many variables open that the test results are meaningless?
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While you (?) can still argue about it for whatever reasons...understand that I'm still seeing a 6.7% mpg gain. So there....  |
This does not help the cause of ecomodding. One might as well do the same thing with fuel magnets.