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Originally Posted by 19bonestock88
Yeah there are some steep grades on I-64 lol... you passed through about 80mi south of me lol... I’m near US-33...
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Lol, probably as close to seeing another of my kind as I'll ever be! Don't recall ever seeing an ecomodded car in all my years of life.
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Originally Posted by 19bonestock88
Best thing I found for the freeway, is to avoid the cruise control and be at the bottom of the hill faster than your target speed, slowly ramp up throttle until right before it kicks down, and hold that until you’ve either crested the hill or you drop slow enough to wanna accelerate... in my Malibu I cruised at 75-80 and would hold overdrive down to 62 before forcing the downshift... brought my highway mileage from about 35 indicated to around 38
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My dad drove, and of course with the speed limit of 70 he drove at 75 with the cruise control...which meant 3rd gear up the grades and killing the brakes on the downgrades lol.