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I'll be honest I have never worked with anything electronic.
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Me neither, but if you can follow directions it's do-able. If you're a straight-up electrical noob and feel uncomfortable with it, you might want to consider having an electrically inclined friend help out with any mods requiring tapping into electric.
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On the throttle smoothing circuit, it makes it drive like a metro bus. I am not certain what you mean. Reading about your location I can see how it might not help much if your are not using the throttle a lot with your mostly flat roads
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The TSC meters the amount of throttle you can give it, so you can punch it and it won't give you full throttle, which drove me crazy. It's like trying to floor it without assist and only two cylinders firing. It made my car accelerate almost dangerously slow, and I couldn't deal with it, so I ripped that high-priced mod out of there.
On the upside, it makes it a lot easier to hold lean burn, but I found after I'd driven the car for a while I could do that anyway. True, I live in a flat area, but I would think the slow throttle response would be exaggerated even worse in a hilly area.
I found out later (after I had already given it away) that I had purchased an early version of the TSC, and there are people that swear by the newer versions, but some of them would need to chime in cause I'm not willing to experiment with that particular mod again after my negative experience.
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Our freeway requires 65mph. I read in threads that it is hard to keep LB at that speed.
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I average over 80 mpg all day long at that speed, but whether or not I'm actually in lean burn I can't tell you cause I'm too cheap to buy instrumentation. I can imagine it would be really tough to try to get good mpgs in a hilly area, glad I live where I do!
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Keeping a steady foot is like holding the tail of a pissed off bull with these hills.
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I don't use my toe on the gas pedal when I'm on the highway. Instead, I plant my heel on the floor board at the bottom of the pedal, and use the bottom of my foot to give it gas. I keep the right side of my foot resting against the carpet below the center console, and that helps me hold it at the same speed/rpms and give it gas or let off the gas slower, without wearing myself out doing it.