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Old 09-29-2008, 03:13 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
Yep, if I'm going to drive with load after accelerating.
I've been trying this today, accelerating briskly up to 55 then DWL from there. Thing is, I'm dropping back to 45mph early and often anyway. Then, following a DWL strategy, I'm slooowly regaining 55 on the next flat or downhill, keeping the vac guage at 10.

Seems like I should either give it more gas to maintain speed on the uphills, which would be closer to the whole 3300 under load thing, or drop even further in speed on the uphills and then accelerate briskly again.

Any thoughts ok which might be better?
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