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Originally Posted by justinooo9
A tonneau cover will give you a solid 1-1.5mpg and if very affordable with great utility depending on what you use the bed for. A fellow on here has a 2000 f350 getting 26-27mpg and I've messaged him a few times and scowered google/ here to death.
Driver input and aerodynamics are the key with pickups.
tonneau cover-solid 1-1.5mpg, custom made aerocap/aeroshell easily 2-3mpg with a couple diy mods on the 65+ efficiency mods section. Air dam and side skirts will offer a good improvement but can reduce the utility of a pickup and not attract the dozen raised eyebrows when you pull up to a stop sign.
I ended up sticking with a tonneau cover for now because of how I use the truck and the long winters have prevented me from an effeftive air dam. My brother is looking into fabbing me a light cutom aerocap with either canvas or hard panels but that's a little in the future.
I've switched all to synthetic and saw zero improvement, added an intake, exhaust, and tuner and it helped ever so slightly and I mean ever.... look up bigdave on here and he has a ton of stuff for pickups he tested and posted results etc.
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I'll look up big Dave. I'm going to do removeable air dam and skirts. Already axed the intake resonator, and it came with a glasspack dual exhaust setup, and I'm planning to axe some other exhaust parts (wink, wink) soon