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shovel · 02-26-2009, 08:31 PM

Why not all three? Or at least just the air dam and cover... lowering it reduces truck functionality and effectively turns it into a slow, inefficient car with a big trunk. At that point the best mod you could do is remove one of your lugnuts, screw a fuel efficient car onto it, and discard the leftovers.

By the way, wait4meperformance.com is selling tuned PCM's for S10's for $160, no core needed - many folks are reporting significant fuel efficiency improvements (the more credible claims are of 1-2 mpg up from a 16mpg starting reference on 4wd S10's) from this practically plug-and-play upgrade. Wait4me uses EFILive to load custom PCM tunes in and can enable features not present in your stock tune, such as disabling the A/C compressor when defrost is selected, disabling a/c compressor under heavy throttle, reducing shift overlap, increasing rate of O2 sensor sampling & fuel trim (to more rapidly compensate for temperature, fuel variations), ... all sorts of stuff. Even enabling E-fan trigger to allow you to easily fit an electric fan & ditch your engine driven one.

02-26-2009, 08:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
shovel Master EcoModder Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Phoenix Posts: 593 Thanks: 106 Thanked 114 Times in 72 Posts	Why not all three? Or at least just the air dam and cover... lowering it reduces truck functionality and effectively turns it into a slow, inefficient car with a big trunk. At that point the best mod you could do is remove one of your lugnuts, screw a fuel efficient car onto it, and discard the leftovers. By the way, wait4meperformance.com is selling tuned PCM's for S10's for $160, no core needed - many folks are reporting significant fuel efficiency improvements (the more credible claims are of 1-2 mpg up from a 16mpg starting reference on 4wd S10's) from this practically plug-and-play upgrade. Wait4me uses EFILive to load custom PCM tunes in and can enable features not present in your stock tune, such as disabling the A/C compressor when defrost is selected, disabling a/c compressor under heavy throttle, reducing shift overlap, increasing rate of O2 sensor sampling & fuel trim (to more rapidly compensate for temperature, fuel variations), ... all sorts of stuff. Even enabling E-fan trigger to allow you to easily fit an electric fan & ditch your engine driven one. Last edited by shovel; 02-26-2009 at 08:37 PM..