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Drove from Austin to Dallas for Christmas on highway 35. traffic was light stayed on cruise control the whole time. 45-50 degrees clear day. no decernable wind.
8am to 10am


2006 Kia Sportage EX FWD V6 w/ 104,091 miles

Eco-mods:
1.Lower grill block, particial upper.
2. 235/70/16 tires at 40psi
3. on 3rd tank w/ tcw3

Trip 12-2-2012
(These are avg reading over a hundred miles of the trip)
water temp was in 193 range for 50-70 miles
Then got up to 209 the rest of the trip
61 mph on cruise at 2090rpms
load 31-34 (in flat areas)
hrpower 33-37 (in flat areas)
FIA 78-85 (keep gradually increasing as the morning warmed up)
IGN 31-34
Scangauge MPG 32.9 (yeah)!!!!!
Kia MPG screen 29.9mpg
(Had to adjust the scangauge 9% w/ the new tires, so the kia screen is pretty close to the scangauge w/ the 9% factored in.)
Did not hypermile nor did I ever coast. (pretty flat so no reason to.)

About 1 hr from Lewisville, the temp readding stayed at 209 and didnot drop for several miles. I pulled the partial blocked grill off to see if the reading would come back down.
It did. Dropped to 190-193. For the next 20 miles (still very flat roads) the mpg dropped to 31.5 avg mpg.
Load was 33 and hp was 31.

Needless to say I am VERY pleased with the results.

As a note: I never went over 61. was on cruise 90% of the time I was in North Dallas.
Stayed in Lewisville (hwy 35) went to Richardson on Saterday took Pres George Bush freeway. Drove to Denton on Monday. Back to Lewisville and Back to austin.
NO ONE EVERY RAN ME OVER. No one ever honked at me.
I stayed in the far right lanes.
Did cars pass me? sure.