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Old 09-06-2012, 02:22 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ecomodded View Post
Because you are injecting a larger amount of fuel with more losses to heat, friction and the force of the rapid acceleration.
But you are doing that for a proportionately shorter length of time, so - assuming your engine &c is equally efficient at all loads & RPMs - you should wind up using exactly the same amount of fuel.
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